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Statement: The federal health care plan "costs Texas taxpayers $2.4 billion per year.
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: March 21, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: health care;state budget
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Here's why:             (1) $6 billion of the estimate was labeled by the state as a "possible" cost, and the agency has since indicated that figure is high.              (2) The state estimate covers a 10-year period that does not start until 2014 and is based on an outdated version of health care legislation.              (3) Nearly half of the $24.3 billion cited by Dewhurst is money the state would have to spend anyway — regardless of health care reform — if people already eligible for Medicaid and CHIP signed up now. But it's an expense that would probably not come due without the new law. We rate Dewhurst's statement as .
Statement: When I become the nominee, the Democratic nominee, I will be the only pro-choice candidate on the ballot.
Speaker: kendrick meek
About the speaker: Kendrick Meek is a former U.S. Representative for Congressional District 17 in Miami, serving from 2003 to 2011. He campaigned for the U.S. Senate and was defeated on Nov. 2, 2010.
Date: June 22, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: abortion
Context: a Democratic U.S. Senate debate
Fact-check justification: That seems to be the point he wanted to make. But, that's not what he said. He said he would be the only pro-choice candidate, and that statement needs some clarification. While Crist may not harbor the sharpest pro-choice views, he still has taken a seat in that tent both in recent days and in the past. Given Meek's solid pro-abortion stance and Crist's rotating views, we rule Meek’s statement .
Statement: Right now, if Rhode Island police come across a young person with a gun, "they really don't legally have the right to take it away from them.
Speaker: linda finn
About the speaker: Linda D. Finn, a Democrat, was elected to the Rhode Island House of Representatives in 2012. A landscape designer, she represents District 72, which includes parts of Middletown and Portsmouth.
Date: April 12, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: criminal justice;legal issues;crime;guns
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: State Rep. Linda D. Finn said that if the police come across a young person with a gun, "they really don't legally have the right to take it away from them." Under current law, police can seize handguns from juveniles, the weapons most commonly used in street crime. But they can’t seize rifles and other so-called long guns. New legislation could change that. But for now, we rate Finn’s   . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: If you pass the so-called Dream Act, it will be the single biggest amnesty in the history of the United States, even bigger than the 1986 amnesty.
Speaker: tom cotton
About the speaker: Tom Cotton, a Republican, was elected to the House of Representatives in 2012 from a district in Arkansas.
Date: September 17, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: an NBC interview
Fact-check justification: Cotton said, "If you pass the so-called Dream Act, it will be the single biggest amnesty in the history of the United States, even bigger than the 1986 amnesty." A 1986 law allowed about 2.7 million people to get green cards. Immigration experts regard this law as the biggest yet to provide legalization for people who were in the country illegally. A 2017 Dream Act bill in the Senate is estimated to allow about 1.5 million people to become eligible for green cards. Cotton calculated that if each of the 1.5 million people eligible for a green card through the Dream Act were to sponsor a parent who’s in the country illegally, then the total number of people legalizing their status would be at least 3 million. But 1986 law beneficiaries also were able to sponsor family members who had been in the country illegally, though it’s difficult to determine how many exactly, experts said. We rate Cotton’s  .
Statement: A "catch and release" immigration policy "is a Democrat rule, Sherrod Brown, this is a Democrat rule.
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: May 5, 2018
Location: ohio
Topics: immigration
Context: Cleveland
Fact-check justification: Trump said the policy called "catch and release" is "a Democrat rule, Sherrod Brown, this is a Democrat rule." Trump was referring to the practice of releasing apprehended undocumented immigrants while they await a hearing before an immigration judge. Trump misleads by labeling the policy a "Democrat rule" because it dates back to at least Republican President George W. Bush. Under Trump’s Republican leadership, the practice continues. A few factors are at play here, including lack of detention space and the laws about unaccompanied minors. But those factors aren’t in the hands of Democrats alone. Trump also singled out Brown, the Ohio senator, with no  that he played any role in the policy. We rate this  .
Statement: Starting in December 2007, "1.4 million jobs were created in Texas. In that same period, the rest of the country lost 400,000 jobs.
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: January 15, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: jobs
Context: valedictory speech as governor to the Texas Legislature
Fact-check justification: Gov. Perry said that starting in December 2007, "1.4 million jobs were created in Texas. In that same period, the rest of the country lost 400,000 jobs." His figures  hold up according to household surveys by the federal government looking into civilian employment including self-employment, though positions not yet recovered outside Texas totaled closer to 350,000, according to the latest available data when Perry spoke. We rate this statement .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says Maine Democrat Jared Golden "supports using your Social Security to fund other government programs.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: October 30, 2018
Location: national
Topics: social security
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: The National Republican Campaign Committee said Golden "supports using your Social Security to fund other government programs." The group is referring to Golden’s previous support of a state referendum that will appear on the ballot in Maine and would implement a tax on wealthier Mainers to fund a home care program. (Golden’s campaign says he no longer supports it after a recent change.) The program would not result in cuts to Social Security. The NRCC distorted a thin link, as the Maine tax would be levied above the current Social Security cut-off of $128,400. Again, it would not result in a decrease of senior’s Social Security benefits. We rate it .
Statement: Under his leadership, Tallahassee reduced its carbon intensity by roughly 40 percent.
Speaker: andrew gillum
About the speaker: Andrew Gillum won the Florida primary for governor in August 2018 and lost the November election to Ron DeSantis. He is a former mayor of Tallahassee and member of the Tallahassee city commission.
Date: September 29, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: environment;corrections and updates
Context: a post on Gillum's campaign website
Fact-check justification: A post on Gillum’s campaign website said, "Under his leadership, Tallahassee reduced its carbon intensity by roughly 40 percent." That  has since been removed and replaced with a series of different claims. That’s because there’s nothing to support a carbon reduction of that size in his time as mayor, or on the city commission. In reality, the cut has taken place over the course of two decades and has dropped for a variety of reasons outside of Gillum’s control. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says he "cut the budget.
Speaker: josh mandel
About the speaker: Josh Mandel, a Republican from Lyndhurst, is a Marine veteran who served two tours in Iraq. He served as Ohio treasurer from 2011 to 2019.  Before that, he was a state representative from the 17th Ohio House District. He unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown in the 2012 US Senate race. Mandel is running for the GOP nomination for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat in 2022.
Date: May 23, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: message machine 2012
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: There is additional information, though, that provides clarification. As seen in the ad, some listeners might interpret his bare  that he cut the budget as meaning he trimmed the state budget. Money for the state budget, including the treasurer’s office, is set by the General Assembly and the governor. And the overall total appropriated for his office in FY 2012 and FY2013, when including state funds and benefits programs administered by the treasurer's office, is actually greater than FY 2011. On the -O-Meter, Mandel’s  rates .
Statement: Just this week we received the news that for the first time Social Security is now paying out more in benefits than it's taking in. That was something that was supposed to happen in 2016.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: March 28, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: social security
Context: a U.S. Senate primary debate on FOX News Sunday
Fact-check justification: In the same interview, Gross pointed out that the SSA has a $2.5 trillion balance that will carry benefits for a while. So, Rubio's correct on the first part his . He's right on his second point as well. In its May 2009 annual report to Congress, the SSA projected that "annual cost will exceed tax income starting in 2016." As a result, we find Rubio's  to be .
Statement: The FBI lost Hunter Biden's laptop.
Speaker: donald trump jr.
About the speaker: Donald Trump Jr. is the son of President Donald Trump and his former wife Ivana Trump.
Date: April 4, 2022
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook video
Fact-check justification: Using video from a Congressional hearing as , Donald Trump Jr. claimed that the FBI lost Hunter Biden’s laptop. That hearing was about the FBI’s cybersecurity division. Vorndran, an FBI official who was presenting, was questioned by Gaetz about the laptop. Discussion of the computer and its contents were not on the agenda for the day’s meeting. Vorndron responded that he did not know of the computer’s whereabouts and wasn’t there to talk about that matter. This does not amount to  of Trump’s .  There is no other indication that the computer, which was seized by the FBI, has been misplaced. The Washington Post, which reviewed the contents of the computer’s hard drive, confirmed it remains in FBI possession. We rate this  .
Statement: Loretta Lynch, the new nominee for attorney general, "was a member of Bill Clinton's defense team during the 1992 Whitewater corruption probe.
Speaker: breitbart
About the speaker: Breitbart is a conservative news website.
Date: November 8, 2014
Topics: candidate biography;criminal justice;punditfact
Context: a story
Fact-check justification: An article on Breitbart that has since been deleted said Loretta Lynch, Obama’s new nominee for attorney general, "was a member of Bill Clinton's defense team during the 1992 Whitewater corruption probe." The conservative news website got the  Loretta Lynch. We’re hoping the correction spreads as fast as the original story. This  rates .
Statement: Video showing someone in military gear outside a Georgia Waffle House proves that Donald Trump is president.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 11, 2023
Topics: elections;military
Context: a Facebook video
Fact-check justification: An agency spokesperson said they were unable to identify the person in the video who appeared to be wearing military gear. Regardless, the presence of an armed military person at the Waffle House does not prove that Trump is president. He is not. Claims to the contrary stem from QAnon-related conspiracy theories that falsely hold Trump has secretly retained power through an elaborate set of circumstances. We rate this  !
Statement: The Austin school district calendar lists 64 different dates for either a state-mandated test or make-up test.
Speaker: sara stevenson
About the speaker: Sara Stevenson, a middle-school librarian in Austin, wrote an op-ed article for the Austin American-Statesman in April 2012.
Date: April 4, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: education
Context: an op-ed column
Fact-check justification: Austin’s school calendar has about 34 separate state-related testing dates, not 64. Also, many of the state tests are penciled in for the same dates. In addition, significantly, no students are taking tests on all 34 dates or, really, any number of dates close to that. Still, Stevenson’s  has an element of . According to the district calendar, state-mandated testing was a possibility on at least one day in six of the 10 months from mid-October 2011 through mid-July 2012. We rate the  .
Statement: Joe Biden's cancellation of the Keystone pipeline "dramatically increased Americans' dependence on Russian oil.
Speaker: mike pence
About the speaker: Mike Pence is the former vice president of the United States. A Republican, Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence previously served for 12 years as a congressman from Indiana representing the Sixth Congressional District; he was first elected in 2000. During his time in the U.S. House of Represenatives, he served as House Republican Conference chairman and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. Pence was born in Columbus, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from Hanover College and a law degree in 1986 from Indiana University. After accepting Donald Trump's offer to be running mate, Pence ended his 2016 campaign to be re-elected as Indiana governor. 
Date: March 7, 2022
Topics: energy;trade;ad watch;russia
Context: an ad from Advancing American Freedom
Fact-check justification: Advancing American Freedom said Biden's cancellation of the Keystone pipeline "dramatically increased Americans' dependence on Russian oil." The Keystone pipeline was never built, so Biden’s canceling it didn’t make the U.S. more reliant on Russian oil. The United States’ decision to buy less oil from Venezuela is the key reason the U.S. bought more Russian oil. In 2021, about 3% to 4% of U.S. oil consumption was from Russian imports, but in 2022, preliminary reports show the U.S. has decreased its Russian imports. We rate the statement . RELATED: Keystone wouldn’t simply offset oil US imports from Russia RELATED: The U.S. did not double oil imports from Russia in the last year RELATED: With time and money, US can replace banned Russian imports with domestic oil RELATED: Fact-checking Biden’s  that there are 9,000 unused oil drilling permits RELATED: Oil production in Biden’s first year on par with Trump
Statement: Says Barack Obama is the "first president to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: June 18, 2014
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: A chain email said Obama is the "first president to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office." Perhaps two dozen Obama administration officials have been genuinely referred to as czars -- a smaller number than the email claims -- but it’s important to note that "czar" is more a term of the media than it is of the government. Most important, though, is that not a single one of these czars replaced an elected official. We rate this  .
Statement: Greta Thunberg "going on hunger strike until Trump is removed.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: May 4, 2020
Topics: impeachment;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: That’s because the supposed news story originated on bustatroll.org , a self-described satirical website. It was published on Dec. 19, 2019, with the labels "impeachment satire" and "warm fuzzy fan fiction." The poached story that appears on "Washington News Press" has no such caveats, and as it gets shared widely on Facebook, users are missing that context.   Thunberg has not announced a hunger strike in protest of Trump. We rate this post .
Statement: Says "Kurt Schrader supports Obama's sequester … but won't cut $1.6 million to fund new video games.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: March 4, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: federal budget
Context: an online ad
Fact-check justification: Schrader was not in a position to cut -- or to not cut -- that money with his sequestration-related votes. Clearly the ads are meant to showcase extreme examples of budget fat. But in doing so, the NRCC has jumped into spacey nonsense. We find the  not only , but  so. We rate the statement .
Statement: If Gov. Rick Scott activates "the National Guard in anticipation of a federal disaster, the state's costs, including the costs to recall any furloughed guardsmen, will be fully reimbursable by FEMA.
Speaker: bill nelson
About the speaker: Bill Nelson was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida in 2000. He lost re-election to Gov. Rick Scott in 2018. Nelson previously served in the Florida Legislature, Congress and as state Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner.
 
Date: June 7, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: federal budget;public safety;state budget
Context: a letter to Gov. Rick Scott
Fact-check justification: But that’s not a sure thing. Florida is not guaranteed a federal reimbursement of any amount if Scott activates the National Guard ahead of a storm. He needs a presidential declaration. Further, the reimbursement is rarely full; the federal government most often shares 75 percent of the costs. We rate Nelson’s statement .
Statement: The income tax that started at 2 percent under Governor Byrne is now 9 percent.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: September 25, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: income;taxes
Context: New Hampshire
Fact-check justification: Christie said, "The income tax that started at 2 percent under Governor Byrne is now 9 percent." When the state first implemented an income tax in 1976, two rates existed -- 2 percent for income less than $20,000 and 2.5 percent for income more than $20,000 -- but the state has since introduced a more progressive tax system. New Jersey’s top rate is nearly 9 percent now, but applies only to taxable income above $500,000. Every other income bracket is subject to a rate lower than 9 percent, with some income levels charged a rate of less than 2 percent.   We rate this statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: During the Bush administration, liberal groups were targeted" by the IRS, similar to recent targeting.
Speaker: jim mcdermott
About the speaker: Jim McDermott is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from a district in Washington state.
Date: June 4, 2013
Location: national
Topics: bush administration;taxes
Context: a House Ways and Means hearing
Fact-check justification: McDermott said liberal groups were targeted during the Bush administration. While some liberal groups were audited, the numbers we could find were small, largely confined to 501(c)(3) nonprofits where the rules are more strict, and stemmed from complaints levied by outsiders. In contrast, the current case was fueled by internal bureaucratic rules applied to a significantly larger number of organizations. A group’s name or its policy agenda triggered the IRS action, rather than a complaint or the group’s specific activities. While there is an element of  in McDermott’s statement, the systematic nature of the IRS actions between 2010 and 2012 represents a distinctly different set of circumstances. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Neil Gorsuch "comes down on the side of felons over gun safety.
Speaker: nancy pelosi
About the speaker: Rep. Nancy Pelosi represents a district in California. She served as speaker of the U.S. House January 2019-2021. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.
Date: January 31, 2017
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;crime;supreme court;guns
Context: a CNN town hall
Fact-check justification: Pelosi said Gorsuch "comes down on the side of felons over gun safety." There’s one case, Games-Perez , where Gorsuch wouldn’t immediately send the defendant, a felon, to prison for having a gun, despite the federal ban on felons possessing guns. But Gorsuch’s reasoning wasn’t about whether the law infringed on the defendant’s Second Amendment rights. Instead, he thought the law allowed the defendant an opportunity to make the case in court that the he didn’t know he was a felon. Two other cases that came up in our research, Pope and Reese , turned out to be irrelevant. Pelosi’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: We will be the first party to elect a bald guy to governor.
Speaker: john thrasher
About the speaker: John Thrasher is a Republican state Senator representing District 8 in Northeast Florida and the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida.
Date: September 10, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;elections;history
Context: comments at the Republican Party of Florida's annual meeting
Fact-check justification: Thrasher — sorry, bad-pun police — is a hair off. First, there is a debate if Scott is truly bald. And even putting that aside, Reed was "just as bald" as Scott way back in 1868, and is described by historians as bald. We rate Thrasher's statement . Now back to digesting that report about the future of Social Security …