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Statement: This governor has cut funding repeatedly for people who have AIDS, who need drugs to save their life.
Speaker: herb conaway jr.
About the speaker: Assemblyman Herb Conaway Jr. is a Democratic assemblyman representing parts of Burlington County.
Date: June 20, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: health care;state budget
Context: a rally at the Statehouse
Fact-check justification: But last year, a new program was created to assist people impacted by the eligibility change. This year, state funding was proposed to be cut, but other funding sources were to maintain services for participants. Conaway correctly stated that Christie has cut state funding for AIDS and HIV programs, but at least when it comes to pharmaceutical assistance, people continued to receive medicine for their AIDS and HIV treatment. We rate his statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: All 'gender affirming care' for children is 100% experimental. There are zero long term studies on the effects the drugs and surgeries will have on them.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: January 1, 2023
Topics: health care;lgbtq;facebook fact-checks
Context: an image shared on Instagram
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claimed, "All ‘gender affirming care’ for children is 100% experimental. There are zero long term studies on the effects the drugs and surgeries will have on them." Experts said it is  to call all gender-affirming care for children "experimental," because the approach, including the use of puberty blockers, is -based. Research also shows that gender-affirming care reduces the risk of suicide, anxiety, depression and gender dysphoria. For prepubescent children, gender-affirming care does not involve medication or surgeries; instead, it’s about social affirmation such as allowing a child to wear gender-affirming clothes or adopt a gender-affirming hairstyle.  There’s an element of  to the : There aren’t many long-term studies on the effects of gender-affirming surgeries for youth, but that’s because they aren’t done on children and rarely on teenagers. We rate this post . PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report. RELATED: Transition-related surgery limited to teens, not 'young kids.' Even then, it's rare RELATED: Florida leaders misrepresented research before ban on gender-affirming care
Statement: Republicans are "trying to impeach our president.
Speaker: color of change
About the speaker: Color of Change is a civil rights advocacy organization.
Date: October 29, 2014
Location: national
Topics: congress;message machine 2014
Context: an Arkansas flyer
Fact-check justification: A civil rights group mailer said Republicans are "trying to impeach our president." No members of the current Congress have introduced legislation to impeach Obama, and Republican Party leaders have shut down the possibility. Some Congressional Republicans and candidates have called for Obama’s impeachment. But most of that rhetoric has been isolated to a few members of the party rather than a resounding chorus. We rate this  .
Statement: When (Joe Kyrillos) had an opportunity to vote for women in terms of their health care, not once, not twice, but six times, he voted against women's health care in our state.
Speaker: robert menendez
About the speaker: Robert Menendez, a Democrat, has been serving as one of New Jersey's U.S. Senators since January 2006. Menendez previously served as a member of the House of Representatives.
Date: October 4, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: health care;women
Context: a debate on NJTV
Fact-check justification: In a debate last week, Menendez said in reference to Kyrillos: "When he had an opportunity to vote for women in terms of their health care, not once, not twice, but six times, he voted against women’s health care in our state." The senator’s  is on target. Between June 2010 and June 2012, Kyrillos voted six times against providing about $7.5 million for family planning services. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: I have not insulted Donald personally.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: January 28, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: comments during the Iowa Republican presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Cruz said, "I have not insulted Donald personally." Determining what qualifies as an "insult" is somewhat in the eye of the beholder, but Cruz has certainly mocked Trump during several recent public appearances. We rate his statement .
Statement: Florida to ban mRNA vaccines as credible evidence of biological weapons.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 17, 2023
Location: florida
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: In May, DeSantis signed bills prohibiting mask and COVID-19 vaccine mandates. But with no  that Florida state officials have announced any action to ban the vaccines themselves, we rate the post . RELATED: Why an analysis of COVID-19 vaccines from Florida’s surgeon general is flawed RELATED: Ad Watch: Pro-Donald Trump PAC’s video misleads about Ron DeSantis’ COVID-19 response RELATED: Joe Rogan falsely says mRNA vaccines are ‘gene therapy’
Statement: Says George Patton said, "Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lower form of politicians.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: November 4, 2018
Topics: history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Brain Sobel, a media and governmental relations consultant who wrote the 2013 book, "The Fighting Pattons," also told us that he’s never found any original source material showing that Patton said this.   "Patton did have a general disdain for politics and politicians, but was basically ambivalent about politics," Sobel said.   We couldn’t find any original source confirming that Patton said this, and people familiar with his words suspect he did not.   If  emerges that the attribution is accurate, we’ll reconsider our rating.   For now, it’s .
Statement: Wisconsin bill "grants drug companies and medical device manufacturers immunity from injuries and deaths caused by their products.
Speaker: robert kraig
About the speaker: Robert Kraig is executive director of Milwaukee-based Citizen Action of Wisconsin, which describes itself as a coalition that works to “advance progressive values and shape the public and political debate around health care, economic development and consumer protection.”
Date: October 3, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: civil rights;consumer safety;corporations;health care;legal issues;government regulation;public health
Context: a news release, blog
Fact-check justification: Our conclusion Kraig said a bill proposed by a Wisconsin lawmaker "grants drug companies and medical device manufacturers immunity from injuries and deaths caused by their products." He acknowledged that his statement was "over broad," in that immunity applies only when FDA approval has been granted. The bill doesn’t give blanket protection to drug and device makers. But its primary intent is to give them immunity, with some exceptions. We rate Kraig’s statement .
Statement: An MSNBC reporter was fired for using a racial slur while covering the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 27, 2020
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a story
Fact-check justification: I apologize for the confusion this caused. We found no credible report claiming Morris has been fired. MSNBC has not released a statement about the incident or a change in Morris’ employment. The cable channel did not respond to a request for comment. Without , this  rates .
Statement: Video shows U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, telling U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., that he is "not even an expert" and shutting him up.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 20, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We checked the full video of the hearing, and at the 1:31:51 mark, which is the excerpt used in the Facebook post, Schiff was seen yielding back his time. Jordan then questioned the bureau’s director, Steven Dettelbach. Apart from acknowledging Schiff and saying "Gentleman yields back," Jordan did not speak to Schiff. We did not find news reports that describe any such exchange during this hearing, though Schiff and Jordan have criticized each other in the past . We rate the  that this video shows Jordan quieting Schiff and telling him he was "not an expert" .
Statement: Says under President Barack Obama there's been "the lowest discretionary spending we've had in decades in the United States.
Speaker: cory booker
About the speaker: Cory Booker is a senator from New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2013, making him the first African-American senator from New Jersey and the first African-American elected to the Senate since Barack Obama in 2004. Booker served as mayor of Newark from 2006 until 2013. He has a bachelor's degree in political science and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University, an honors degree in United States history from The Queens College as a Rhodes Scholar and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and suspended his campaign in January 2020.
Date: May 20, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: federal budget
Context: a roundtable discussion on NBC’s “Meet The Press”
Fact-check justification: In his May 20 appearance on NBC’s "Meet The Press," Booker cited a couple of Obama’s accomplishments, including "the lowest discretionary spending we’ve had in decades in the United States." But during Obama’s tenure, discretionary spending hit 9 percent of GDP for the first time in about two decades. Discretionary spending is projected to drop significantly in the years ahead, but Booker made it sound like that had already occurred. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: A 5 percent increase in domestic production would increase the world supply by less than 1 percent and do almost nothing to our dependence on foreign oil. This would also have virtually no effect on the price of gas at the pump.
Speaker: debbie wasserman schultz
About the speaker: Debbie Wasserman Schultz became the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 and resigned in July 2016. The Florida Democrat was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 after serving in the state senate. She represents Congressional District 23 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Date: December 1, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: environment;oil spill
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Weiss pointed to a chart from the Energy Information Administration, which shows projections of gas and oil costs in 2020 and 2030. "Her point that it's going to make no difference in supply, no real difference in price, is correct," Weiss said. Let's review: Wasserman Schultz's math adds up -- Gulf drilling does indeed represent about 5 percent of current domestic production, and a 5 percent increase would  register in terms of the world supply. And the experts we found for this -O-Meter as well as ones cited in the past about McCain's  agree that expanding drilling now would have little effect at the pump any time soon. We rate this  .
Statement: We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation on Earth.
Speaker: bernie sanders
About the speaker: Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
Date: August 19, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show
Fact-check justification: The highest is the Netherlands at $4,417. The other four were Austria, Canada, Norway and Switzerland. Sanders would have been on completely firm ground had he simply said, "We spend more per capita on health care than any other nation on Earth." But instead he said "twice as much." And for that reason we rate his statement .
Statement: Obamacare includes a "$700 billion cut from Medicare for seniors.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: February 12, 2014
Location: national
Topics: elections;health care;medicare
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: In its ad against Sink, the NRCC said the Affordable Care Act includes a "$700 billion cut from Medicare for seniors." There is reduction in spending to Medicare outlays, but it’s fueled by finding savings in the program, a move that Republicans actually supported in the Ryan budget. Medicare spending still increases in the coming years. We rate the statement .
Statement: Kurt Russell said that celebrities shouldn't "get political" when it comes to Donald Trump.
Speaker: twentyeightmay
About the speaker: Twentyeightmay is a pro-President Donald Trump website.
Date: June 23, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a story
Fact-check justification: A story by the Twentyeightmay website said that actor Kurt Russell said that celebrities shouldn't "get political" when it comes to Donald Trump. This is a case of using an actual quote by an actor but taking it out of context to create a  impression. Russell said in a December 2015 interview on The View, "The last thing I like to watch is entertainers or actors get political." But the Twentyeightmay story portrayed Russell’s quotes as an attack on Trump, and that wasn’t the case. The story didn’t make it clear when Russell made these statements. We rate this statement .
Statement: I would love to see us have in this country what I helped lead in Arkansas...Amendment 65 (which) says that we believe life begins at conception, and that we ought to do everything in the world possible to protect it until its natural conclusion.
Speaker: mike huckabee
About the speaker: Mike Huckabee ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former governor of Arkansas; he also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He left hosting a self-titled television show on Fox News in January 2015.
Date: September 5, 2007
Location: national
Topics: abortion
Context: Durham, N.H
Fact-check justification: At the moment, the Roe v. Wade decision means the federal Constitution permits abortion. It also is a slight overstatement to say the Arkansas amendment declares a belief that life begins at conception, though that certainly is implied. We also would note that he got the amendment number . It is Amendment 68 that deals with abortion. Amendment 65 deals with revenue bonds.
Statement: Mehmet Oz "called for a New Zealand-style gun ban" and said "Americans should have less access to guns.
Speaker: dave mccormick
About the speaker: Dave McCormick, the former chief executive of the Bridgewater Associates hedge fund and a former U.S. Treasury Department official, is a candidate for the 2022 Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania.
Date: April 4, 2022
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: guns;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: McCormick said in an ad that Oz "called for a New Zealand-style gun ban" and said "Americans should have less access to guns." Oz currently is running as a pro-gun candidate, but that is in contrast with statements he made for years in support of gun-control measures such as an assault rifle ban and measures to restrict gun purchases, such as background checks and waiting periods.  Oz’s statement about less access to guns was vague; it did not call for governmental restrictions on gun access. We rate the statement . RELATED: The race for the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat: A guide RELATED: Pennsylvania fact-checks
Statement: Says Andrew Gillum has a "far left socialist platform.
Speaker: ron desantis
About the speaker: Ron DeSantis announced on May 24, 2023 that he is running for president in the Republican primary. DeSantis won the race for Florida governor in 2018 and 2022. DeSantis was first elected to Congress in 2012 and resigned in September 2018 to focus on his campaign. He represented Florida's 6th Congressional District which is south of St. Augustine and north of Orlando and includes Daytona Beach. DeSantis initially ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 but dropped out after Marco Rubio decided to seek re-election.
Date: August 30, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: government regulation;medicare
Context: Laura Ingraham's radio show
Fact-check justification: DeSantis said Gillum has a "far left socialist platform." The reality is Gillum’s platform resembles the policies being promoted by many Democrats. And his positions of expanding access to Medicare and raising the minimum wage have significant public support. Gillum isn’t on the fringes of the political spectrum and certainly proposes nothing approaching turning "Florida into Venezuela," which would mean the state taking over privately held businesses and large portions of the economy. We rate this statement .
Statement: Every year we spend roughly $500 billion on tax compliance. That is roughly the budget of our entire military, entirely wasted on tax compliance.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: July 12, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: federal budget;military;taxes
Context: a roundtable with Texas businesses
Fact-check justification: Cruz said: "Every year we spend roughly $500 billion on tax compliance. That is roughly the budget of our entire military, entirely wasted on tax compliance." This  proved squishy at both ends. It looks like depending on how you value time, you can get to almost any total for what it costs Americans to prepare and file tax returns. However, most estimates run short of Cruz’s figure. Meantime, military spending exceeded $800 billion when he spoke though the senator’s spokesman indicated he meant to not count spending on conflicts abroad and other items not in the military’s nearly $500 billion base budget. We rate the statement .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Current projections indicate that Medicare will go bankrupt by 2017, while Social Security will bottom out by 2037.
Speaker: herman cain
About the speaker: Herman Cain is an author, columnist and talk radio host. Cain, a former pizza franchise CEO, ran for president as a Republican in 2012.
Date: October 4, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: health care;medicare;social security
Fact-check justification: He got that year’s data correct, and projections have not changed dramatically since then. But while it’s fair for him to say that Social Security will "bottom out" by 2037, saying Medicare will go bankrupt by 2017 is a bit extreme. Only one of Medicare’s funds is expected to be exhausted by that date, and Congress has never let it run dry. Lawmakers have bailed out the fund without fail for 40 years. Since Cain’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details about the Medicare trust fund, it meets our definition of .
Statement: Cuts in local government and school funding in John Kasich's budget caused "many communities to seek school levies, local tax increases, layoffs.
Speaker: ohio democratic party
About the speaker: Statewide organization for Ohio's Democrats.
Date: June 3, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: state budget
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: But the  also overlooks important details that give the it context. The number of local government jobs in Ohio has actually increased since Kasich's budget was enacted, after dipping to a 12-year low. And the number of local tax issues to appear on ballots across Ohio has been steady for several years. Further, one of the outside experts we talked to says it is too soon to tell the full impact of cuts in funding because the biggest cuts through the Local Government Fund haven’t kicked in yet, nor has the elimination of the estate tax. On the -O-Meter, the  rates .
Statement: A photograph shows a younger Donald Trump posing with his parents who are in Ku Klux Klan robes.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: February 2, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) The image is not genuine, and a Google search and a reverse image search brings up dozens of versions of the original, in which all three are wearing regular clothing without any Klan symbols. While Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was reportedly arrested in 1927 at a KKK rally in Queens, he was never formally charged or cited as a supporter or member. But the photograph is clearly doctored, with the robes digitally inserted over the Trumps’ actual clothing. This is !