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Statement: An "Obamacare slush fund" paid to spay and neuter dogs and cats, then counted it as an "anti-obesity campaign.
Speaker: allen west
About the speaker: Allen West announced in July 2021 that he is running for the Republican primary for Texas governor. He served for about a year as chairman of the Texas Republican Party, stepping down in June 2021. West represented Florida's 22nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013. Lieutenant Colonel West retired from the Army in 2004 after 22 years of service.
Date: May 14, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: animals;corrections and updates;health care;stimulus
Context: a newsletter
Fact-check justification: West said in a May 14 newsletter that among examples of "absurdity" in our country was this: "ObamaCare Slush Fund Money Being Use To Spay Stray Dogs And Cats – Counts As An Anti-Obesity Campaign." Publicity information, news coverage and even the federal government’s own website about the stimulus did suggest that taxpayers paid for pets to get spayed or neutered as part of an effort to help people exercise outdoors free from the threat of stray dogs. There is a connection between the federal money and the clinics. A program specialist whose salary was paid for through the grant promoted the clinics, and the grant-funded animal control officers were on hand at the clinics. But it’s not accurate to say that the money was used to spay or neuter the animals. And the money did not come from an "Obamacare slush fund" -- it wasn't part of the health care law. Calling it a "slush fund" could lead readers to view it as a secretive stash of money, when in reality Congress approved the stimulus act that included money for community-based prevention. Information about the communities that got the grant is publicly available online. Finally, by the time West made his , The Hill and Congressional Quarterly had both reported that the initial claims were . In fact, PetSmart Charities gave the humane association $35,000 to pay for pet neutering and spaying. We rate this  .
Statement: Bob Menendez actually voted in favor of higher taxes more than 70 times!
Speaker: joseph kyrillos
About the speaker: Joseph Kyrillos, Jr. is a Republican state senator representing part of Monmouth County. The former chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee, Kyrillos is running in the November 2012 general election for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Robert Menendez.
Date: August 29, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: taxes
Context: an online news release
Fact-check justification: The Kyrillos campaign claims in a news release that "Bob Menendez actually voted in favor of higher taxes more than 70 times!" More than half of the votes cited by the Kyrillos campaign have no effect on tax law or are procedural matters. There also are Menendez votes that give or extend tax breaks to the middle class at the expense of the wealthy and corporations – but federal budget experts have said that a tax break for one group isn’t the same as a tax increase for another. Menendez did vote in favor of bills that would mean higher taxes, so there’s an element of  to the . But since so many of the bills would have no effect on tax law or policy, that’s a critical fact that would give a different impression – and that meets the definition for . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says it cost Massachusetts taxpayers $100,000 when Mitt Romney and his staff purchased computer hard drives.
Speaker: democratic national committee
About the speaker: The Democratic National Committee is the national organization of Democrats.
Date: December 6, 2011
Location: new hampshire
Topics: message machine 2012;new hampshire 2012
Context: a Democratic Natonal Committee advertisement
Fact-check justification: : The total difference between the original lease and the second computer contract signed by the Romney administration was about $97,000, close to the $100,000 mentioned in the DNC ad. But this is not an apples to apples comparison. Rather, the total difference in cost passed on to taxpayers during the term of the first lease was about $49,000 -- not quite half of the DNC total. Further, administration officials had already been looking into a new computer lease when the aides purchased the hard drives, so the lease costs are not a direct result of the sale of the hard drives, as the DNC alleges. We rate the  .
Statement: Says diversity visa immigrants are not vetted.
Speaker: sarah huckabee sanders
About the speaker: Sarah Huckabee Sanders became the governor of Arkansas in January 2023. She worked as White House press secretary 2017-2019. The daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, she was a surrogate for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Date: November 1, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a White House press briefing
Fact-check justification: Sanders said diversity visa immigrants are not vetted. There are concerns about potential vulnerabilities related to the admission of diversity visa immigrants, and there are difficulties in verifying documents of individuals from certain countries. But vetting mechanisms exist, including additional in-depth review of applicants who need additional scrutiny. Not all who are awarded the lottery end up getting a visa, but individuals who do make it to the visa application process must undergo background checks and security screenings. We rate Sanders’  .
Statement: The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: October 19, 2008
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: (Gore briefly polled better than Bush in 2000, but that was for just one out of the last 21 days. Similarly, Carter polled better than Reagan in 1980, but for only three out of the last 21 days.) But we're not in the prediction business, we're in the fact business. And the fact is, 14 out of the last 16 elections have tightened in the final few weeks of the campaign. So Obama's  that elections tighten at the end is .
Statement: Americans don't "care at all" about Donald Trump's tax returns.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: January 11, 2017
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;polls and public opinion
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Trump said Americans don't "care at all" about his tax returns. Several polls, including one released the day before his latest press conference, show that a sizable portion of the public does think Trump’s tax returns are an important issue. These polls word their questions differently, but most results showed a majority of Americans believed the issue was relevant, undermining Trump’s assertion that only the media wants to explore the issue. We rate Trump’s statement .
Statement: At "least a quarter of those apprehended" at the border "have criminal records.
Speaker: david dewhurst
About the speaker: David Dewhurst, the former state land commissioner, was initially elected lieutenant governor of Texas in 2002. He lost his 2012 bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate and lost his bid for re-nomination in 2014.
Date: July 21, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;crime
Context: a news story
Fact-check justification: Dewhurst said at "least a quarter of those apprehended" at the border "have criminal records." Dewhurst’s described basis for this statement was a methodologically unsound mash-up fueled by the U.S. criminal histories of deported immigrants. In reality, less than 5 percent of people apprehended by the Border Patrol near the U.S.-Mexico border from October 2012 through June 2014 had a U.S. criminal conviction or immigration violation. Public data on home-country criminal records don't appear to be available. We rate this statement .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: For every single scientist that tells you (global warming is) happening and that it's our fault...I can stack up another group of reports that say just the opposite.
Speaker: tom tancredo
About the speaker: Tom Tancredo is a former congressman from Colorado who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. In 2010, Tancredo ran for governor of Colorado as a member of the Constitution Party and placed second to Democrat and then-Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.
Date: May 15, 2007
Location: national
Topics: environment;climate change
Context: Columbia, S.C
Fact-check justification: Their February 2007 report said warming was "unequivocal" and that most of it has been caused by greenhouse gas concentrations caused by humans. The report said that humans have caused a significant increase in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide since 1750. Yes, there have been dissenting studies over the years about global warming. But the IPCC is an effort to forge an international consensus. It has included more than 2,500 expert reviewers, more than 800 authors and more than 450 lead authors working for the past six years.
Statement: Says with "Gov. Chris Christie and bipartisan reformers" New Jersey had "the most job growth in 11 years.
Speaker: committee for our children's future
About the speaker: Committee for Our Children's Future, a nonprofit group known as a 501(c)4, launched a television campaign in September 2011 to tout the reform efforts of Gov. Chris Christie.
Date: January 25, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: jobs
Context: a video ad posted on YouTube
Fact-check justification: A group that supports the governor  released a video ad that said with Christie and bipartisan reformers, New Jersey had "the most job growth in 11 years." The state gained more jobs overall last year than in seven years -- not 11 years. In 2004, the state added 37,700 jobs. In 2011, we added 36,400 jobs. Public-sector growth boosted job gains in 2004, while last year the state added jobs despite a decrease in government employment    . The ad doesn’t make a distinction in the types of jobs gained, but a spokesman said it was referring to private-sector employment. Last year, New Jersey had the most private-sector job growth in 11 years. Overall, we rate this statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Small businesses that have "$250,000 in gross sales for the business. They're the ones that are looking at massive tax increases.
Speaker: michele bachmann
About the speaker: Michele Bachmann, first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, represents the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was reelected in 2008. Previously, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. Prior to that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.
Date: November 16, 2010
Location: national
Topics: small business;taxes
Context: an interview on "Good Morning America."
Fact-check justification: Good Morning America posted a note on its website after Bachmann's appearance, noting that her statement was . We asked her spokesperson for a comment but didn't hear back. The proposed increases have been discussed many times and for several years. Her misstatement of the facts on Good Morning America seems designed to scare small business owners into thinking they're in line for a tax increase, even if their income is modest. For distorting the tax proposals to a  extent, we rate her statement .
Statement: Says legislative debate of airport pat-down procedures initiated federal changes in security procedures.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: June 29, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: homeland security;transportation
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: But as we’ve said before, we do believe that making it a legislative issue in the midst of Americans’ escalating frustration toward TSA’s invasive pat-down searches played a role in the agency’s decision to finally take action, and make changes to its policy that are a step in the right direction." It’s reasonable to say the debate in Austin brought even more attention to pat-downs. But the TSA was already catching flack for the procedures two months before the Legislature convened. And we found no  the Texas debate initiated, as Perry puts it, the administration’s policy change. We rate Perry’s statement .
Statement: President John F. Kennedy "was planning to end the Federal Reserve.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 6, 2022
Topics: economy;history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post said Kennedy "was planning to end the Federal Reserve." Experts said that there is no  to support this . The Congressional Research Service, more than 30 years after Kennedy’s death, said that an executive order that proponents of this  hold up as  actually does the opposite of what they suggest.  Kennedy’s pre-election speeches also indicate he did not intend to eliminate the central bank. We rate this  .
Statement: Georgia's share of money from the Federal Highway Trust Fund declined 12 percent between 2008 and 2013.
Speaker: the associated press
About the speaker: The Associated Press, major news organization.
Date: February 21, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: state budget;transportation
Context: a newspaper article
Fact-check justification: Overall, in that period, Georgia’s funding through the trust fund increased at a steady clip -- about 34 percent. Our ruling. The money Georgia receives from the Federal Highway Trust Fund fell by more than 12 percent in 2008 through 2013. State and federal data we reviewed backs up that finding by The Associated Press. We rate the statement .
Statement: Hurricane Ian was orchestrated as part of a pandemic-related conspiracy to devastate Floridians.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: September 29, 2022
Location: national
Topics: weather;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: "Ninety percent of all hurricane deaths are the result of storm surge. "   The notion that this hurricane — or any hurricane — was engineered by humans as some sort of political punishment appears to be spreading among adherents of QAnon, a baseless conspiracy theory that promotes the idea that the world is run by a cabal of pedophiles that include high-profile Democrats and celebrities and that former President Donald Trump is working with military leaders to quash it. Hurricanes are natural disasters, not man-controlled. This  is !
Statement: Says Colorado congressional candidate Morgan Carroll "voted to allow welfare recipients to use your tax dollars at ATMs at strip clubs and pot dispensaries.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: October 11, 2016
Location: colorado
Topics: welfare;marijuana
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: NRCC says, "Carroll voted to allow welfare recipients to use your tax dollars at ATMs at strip clubs and pot dispensaries." There's slightly more to this than the NRCC lets on: Carroll voted, unsuccessfully, to allow welfare recipients to continue withdrawing money from ATMs at strip clubs and pot dispensaries.  Carroll’s spokesman said the senator voted against the bill that prohibited people from using public benefit cards for cash withdrawals at strip clubs and marijuana dispensaries because she was concerned about the impact on residents of poor neighborhoods where there are few -- if any -- banking services. State officials and lawmakers warned that Colorado could face financial sanctions for failing to comply with federal prohibitions against the use of benefit cards at adult entertainment venues. With that additional information in mind, we rate the  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/db00eb39-eb87-464b-92df-ce08bfbe0d45
Statement: Greenland's ice sheet isn't shrinking any more rapidly today than it was 80 years ago.
Speaker: steven koonin
About the speaker: Steven Koonin is a physicist and director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University.
Date: October 26, 2021
Location: national
Topics: climate change
Context: an Instagram video
Fact-check justification: Koonin said that "Greenland's ice sheet isn't shrinking any more rapidly today than it was 80 years ago." Koonin relied on a study that had data through 2010. Experts agree that a period of warmer temperatures caused a large loss of ice in the 1930s. But the most recent data shows a period of steeper and longer lasting declines in the Greenland ice sheet between 2010 and 2020 than in the period 80 years ago. There is uncertainty in the data, but Koonin’s numbers are incomplete and obscure the scale of recent ice losses. We rate this  .
Statement: Despite President Barack Obama's promise to cut healthcare costs, "the average cost of a family policy is up $1,300.
Speaker: republican national committee
About the speaker: The Republican National Committee is the national arm of the Republican Party.
Date: March 19, 2012
Location: national
Topics: health care;message machine 2012
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The RNC ad uses a legitimate figure, though its meaning can’t be fully understood without additional context. Families aren’t shelling out $1,300 more for health coverage this year; they are paying $132 more, with their employers picking up the rest, a financial burden that may, or may not, be passed on indirectly to the employee. Meanwhile, uncertainty remains about why premiums have risen in the past year. Given that some provisions of Obama’s health care law are already in effect, such as the requirement that health plans include children to age 26, the law has probably had some impact. However, premiums were already on an upward track well before the law was passed. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: McCain lobbied for (a) $10-million pork project honoring conservative justice.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: June 12, 2008
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: a campaign e-mail to reporters
Fact-check justification: But another important aspect of a pork project is its parochial nature. Pork projects are typically only of interest to people in a particular region, and those people, pork-busters like McCain usually argue, should be the ones to pay for it. The latter is what's at stake in the request for $10-million for an academic center at the University of Arizona, even if it is named after the late U.S. chief justice. For a purist on spending like McCain, it's hard to argue this wasn't a parochial, pork-barrel project. As a result, we find Obama's charge .
Statement: Businesses cannot legally ask for proof of vaccination and cannot deny entry based on vaccination status.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: May 19, 2021
Location: california
Topics: constitutional amendments;public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Instagram
Fact-check justification: An image posted on Instagram and Twitter claimed that it is illegal for businesses to ask for proof of vaccination or deny entry to customers based on their vaccination status. Furthermore, the image alleged that business owners or employees who "violated your rights" could be held liable under a section of federal law that addresses deprivation of rights, which could result in life imprisonment or the death penalty. Legal experts say businesses are allowed to ask for proof of vaccination from customers. In some states, certain businesses are required to ask about vaccination status under current reopening guidelines.  Additionally, businesses can generally deny entry to unvaccinated customers, provided they offer reasonable accommodations for people who might be unable to receive a vaccine because of a disability, a medical condition or their religious beliefs. Experts say a reasonable accommodation does not necessarily mean the individual would be able to walk into the business or access their services in person. Experts also say that the law cited as punishment applies to public officials, not private businesses. No business owner or employee who asks a customer for proof of vaccination would be imprisoned for life or face the death penalty. Therefore, we rate this  .  – The statement is not accurate.
Statement: President Barack Obama met with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani.
Speaker: restoration pac
About the speaker: Suburan Chicago-based Restoration PAC is a super PAC that was formed in January 2015.
Date: July 22, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: foreign policy;military;nuclear;terrorism
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: In a statement, Curry criticized BuzzFeed as "not able to provide any proof that the photo was " and noted the photo "is in circulation widely on the internet, posted on dozens of websites. There also are no articles directly claiming the image is . However, out of an abundance of caution, we are replacing the image with side-by-side Obama and Rouhani photos that makes exactly the same point." Editor's note II: When posted, this item included a link to a video of the ad in question. The group has now taken it down, so we have removed the link.
Statement: Says Joe Biden is on video "admitting to" election fraud in a "confession.
Speaker: greg kelly
About the speaker: Greg Kelly is the host of “Greg Kelly Reports” on Newsmax TV. He also hosts "The Greg Kelly Podcast."
Date: January 11, 2021
Topics: elections;pundits;punditfact
Context: a TV segment
Fact-check justification: Kelly said that Biden is on video "admitting to" election fraud in a "confession." That’s . The full-context video shows Biden was describing an effort to prevent voter suppression and help people vote when he misspoke.  We rate Kelly’s statement .