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Statement: A West Virginia inspection sticker on an Uber" proves the car was not in Ukraine.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 13, 2022
Location: west virginia
Topics: national;facebook fact-checks;ukraine
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed that "a West Virginia inspection sticker on an Uber" proves the car was not in Ukraine. A West Virginia State Police Captain confirmed that the decal on the car was an expired sticker from the state. However, this doesn’t mean that the car wasn’t in Ukraine — a spokesperson for Reuters, which owns the video, confirmed that the video was filmed there.   It's not uncommon for cars to be exported from the U.S. to other countries, including Ukraine.   We rate this  .
Statement: Twenty percent of housing in Portland's Pearl District is 'affordable.'
Speaker: tom hughes
About the speaker: Tom Hughes was elected president of Metro, the Portland area's regional government, in 2010.
He served two terms as mayor of Hillsboro. He was first elected to office in 1976, winning a spot on the Hillsboro City Council that he held until 2000. He served on Hillsboro’s Planning and Zoning Hearings Board and was appointed to the Hillsboro Planning Commission. He was elected mayor in 2001. He also was a high school teacher for many years.
Date: November 2, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: housing;infrastructure;urban;taxes
Context: a guest column
Fact-check justification: Dave Davis, president of the Pearl District Neighborhood Association , concurs that Tanner Creek is solidly within his group’s boundaries. In fact, the residential Pearl District stretches from Burnside to the river, and Broadway to Interstate-405, according to a map. We rate the statement , and that’s not meant as a knock on Hughes. What he said is accurate, but it needs a tiny clarification on what is included in the Pearl. Return to OregonLive to comment on this story.
Statement: Women and men both are making less when you adjust for inflation than when" John Kitzhaber was first elected governor.
Speaker: dennis richardson
About the speaker: Dennis Richardson is a member of the Oregon House, representing District 4. He is an attorney and owns the law firm of Dennis Richardson & Associates, P.C., in Central Point.
Date: October 10, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: economy;income
Context: a campaign debate
Fact-check justification: It didn’t, in other words, change the final result. The ruling: Richardson, in criticizing Kitzhaber’s years as governor, claimed that men and women working in Oregon nearly 20 years ago made more then than they do now adjusted for inflation. The Richardson campaign did get back to us but, regardless, the information it provided doesn't hold up. Data from the two federal agencies and the state Employment Department show that both genders make more today, when their wages are adjusted for inflation, than they did when Kitzhaber was first elected in 1995. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Jeb Bush "said he would take his pants off and moon everybody ... Nobody reports that.
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: February 14, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: elections
Context: South Carolina
Fact-check justification: Trump said that Bush "said he would take his pants off and moon everybody ... Nobody reports that." Bush did talk about mooning people. The Boston Globe reported on Feb. 6 that Bush said, "I could drop my pants. Moon the whole crowd. Everybody would be aghast, except the press guys would never notice." Bush’s comment to the reporter was intended to show how he felt he was getting no campaign coverage. But Trump’s statement is , because Bush wasn’t threatening to moon people, and his comment was indeed reported. The statement has an element of  but ignores critical context. So we rate it .
Statement: In a now-viral video, "impressionable youngsters at a public school in New Jersey ... have been instructed to sing the praises of 'Barack Hussein Obama.'
Speaker: michael steele
About the speaker: Michael Steele is the chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was formerly the lieutenant governor of Maryland, serving from 2003 to 2007.
Date: September 25, 2009
Location: national
Topics: education
Context: a blast e-mail from Republican National Committee
Fact-check justification: We were checking Steele's comment that "impressionable youngsters at a public school in New Jersey, most of whom are no more than 6 or 7 years old, have been instructed to sing the praises of 'Barack Hussein Obama.'" Yes, they were second-graders, which makes them 7 or 8 years old, and therefore, "impressionable." And the video shows the teacher directing them to sing. Most importantly, this was at a public school. So we find Steele's  to be .
Statement: Although Democrats represent only 10 of Florida's 25 districts, their districts received 60 percent of the stimulus funds.
Speaker: jeff miller
About the speaker: Jeff Miller is the Congressman for Florida's 1st Congressional District, which includes Pensacola and parts of the Florida panhandle.
Date: November 19, 2009
Location: national
Topics: economy;stimulus;workers
Context: a newsletter
Fact-check justification: Recovery.gov is the primary source for data on the stimulus, and it does show more money going to Democrats. But it didn't take us long to notice that the projects reported in at least one Democratic district are way off. Miller himself said the data was unreliable, but then uses the same data to say Democrats are getting more money. That doesn't seem to be the case. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says his budget "calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history.
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: February 28, 2017
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;history;military
Context: a speech to Congress
Fact-check justification: Trump said his budget plan has one of the largest increases in defense spending in the country’s history. Looking strictly at money for the Pentagon’s base budget, Trump is calling for about a 10 percent hike in spending. But in the past three decades, there have been 10 years when the base defense budget has gone up more than what Trump has requested. In some years, the increase was more than double Trump’s. The term "one of the largest" has some leeway, but the defense analysts we reached said while it is a significant increase, it is not remarkable. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/c715d253-c396-4eb9-8ccb-62308ed6c123
Statement: Photos of the Statue of Liberty taken in 1920 and 2020 show that the sea level hasn't changed.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: March 1, 2023
Location: new york
Topics: climate change;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: A post claims that photos of the Statue of Liberty taken in 1920 and 2020 show the sea level surrounding Ellis Island hasn’t changed in 100 years.  Without information about when exactly the photos were taken and at what point in the tidal cycle, the photos alone do not confirm anything about sea level. But NOAA data shows that the relative sea level rise in New York City averaged 0.11 inches per year from 1850 to 2017. We rate this  .
Statement: George Allen "voted for 40,000 earmarks.
Speaker: jamie radtke
About the speaker: Jamie Radtke, a Republican, was a candidate for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in 2012 and was president of the Richmond Tea Party and co-founder of the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation.
Radtke graduated from Liberty University, Lynchburg, in 1995 and earned a master's degree in public policy from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, in 1998.
Date: March 28, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: federal budget;message machine 2012
Context: a web video
Fact-check justification: He went along with the system and said he was "proud" of the earmarks he got for Virginia. The appropriations bills Allen backed had 52,319 earmarks, according to the Citizens Against Government Waste. Radtke attaches a smaller number to Allen, but we won’t penalize her for understating her case. So Radtke’s statement is accurate but needs clarification. We rate it .
Statement: Says Katie Porter is part of a "radical group of Democrats with an extreme agenda to abolish ICE.
Speaker: mimi walters
About the speaker: Mimi Walters is the Republican U.S. Rep. for California's 45th Congressional District.
Date: September 25, 2018
Location: california
Topics: immigration
Context: a mailer
Fact-check justification: Walters claimed that Porter has an extreme liberal agenda that supports abolishing ICE. The mailer relies on a news article that said she supports such actions, but that piece has since been updated, stopping short of saying the Democrat wants to do away with the agency and mentioning her position for single-payer health care instead. We also found comments from Porter expressing frustration with the agency, and that she supports changes to it, but not dissolving it completely. The  is , so we rate it .
Statement: Says Rebecca Kleefisch played a key role in the Foxconn deal, "the largest attempted government handout to a foreign company in American history.
Speaker: ben wikler
About the speaker: Ben Wikler is chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
Date: September 23, 2021
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;jobs;wisconsin
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  Wikler said Kleefisch played a key role in the Foxconn deal, "the largest attempted government handout to a foreign company in American history.   Kleefisch did meet with Foxconn officials and promoted the deal publicly before, during and after its creation.   And the $3 billion incentive package still stands as the largest one offered to a foreign company. But calling it a handout isn’t exactly accurate — the payments had specific rules attached to them, without which Foxconn couldn’t get the money.   We rate his  .
Statement: Says Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers "wants to force residents to fund Planned Parenthood abortion business.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 23, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: abortion;state budget
Context: Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post links to a 2019 article that claimed Evers "wants to force residents to fund Planned Parenthood abortion business." Evers tried and failed to restore funding for entities like Planned Parenthood that also provide abortion services. But even if the measure had passed, under state and federal law the money generally couldn’t have gone to pay for abortions. Finally, it’s an exaggeration to call Planned Parenthood an abortion business, when abortions make up a small portion of the services offered.  A statement is  when it contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. That fits here. window.gciAnalyticsUAID = 'PMJS-TEALIUM-COBRAND';
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Statement: There have been some estimates that if you deported everybody who is in Texas illegally," it "would create an economic recession for the state.
Speaker: chuck todd
About the speaker: Chuck Todd is a political analyst and reporter for NBC and MSNBC.
Date: December 7, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: immigration
Context: an interview of Greg Abbott, Texas governor-elect
Fact-check justification: Todd, addressing Abbott, said there had been "some estimates that if you deported everybody who is in Texas illegally… it would create an economic recession for the state." It’s hard to overlook that Todd’s statement was premised on hypothetical mass deportations no one expects to occur. That glitch aside, economists have said the Texas economy would suffer without its unauthorized workers, but we didn’t find "recession" estimates. On balance, we rate this  .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: ICE is required to fill 34,000 beds with detainees every single night and that number has only been increasing since 2009.
Speaker: alexandria ocasio-cortez
About the speaker: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, was elected to New York's 14th Congressional district seat in November 2018.
Date: June 27, 2018
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: an interview with The Intercept
Fact-check justification: Ocasio-Cortez claimed that "ICE is required to fill 34,000 beds with detainees every single night and that number has only been increasing since 2009." The language in the congressional appropriations bills from 2009 through 2016 only mandates that ICE keep at least 33,400 (later 34,000) beds available. The bills don’t state that those beds need to be filled. Under different DHS secretaries, the government’s interpretation of the law has varied as to whether the beds need to be filled or not.   In addition, the last time the language requiring ICE to maintain a certain number of beds appeared in an appropriations bill was 2016. So, Ocasio-Cortez’s  that the "number (of detainees ICE is required to detain) has only been increasing since 2009" is . We rate Ocasio-Cortez’s  . ​
Statement: Says over 90 percent of Travis County's eligible residents have registered to vote.
Speaker: bruce elfant
About the speaker: Bruce Elfant  won election as Travis County tax assessor-collector in 2012.
Date: October 10, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: elections
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Elfant said that over 90 percent of Travis County’s eligible residents registered to vote in advance of the November 2016 elections. Comparing the more than 713,871 voters registered at the time Elfant spoke to the county’s estimated 794,309 voting-age citizens--a figure rooted in 2015 household surveys--gets you to 90 percent. Folding in registrations tallied after Elfant spoke drives the result to a bit more than 90 percent. We rate this  .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/2e803387-3a35-4bf7-9901-e8025335a28a
Statement: Obamacare cuts $500 billion in future Medicare funding in order to fund the new constitutionally questionable government mandate, even going so far as to scuttle Medicare's most popular (and successful) part, Medicare Advantage.
Speaker: mike haridopolos
About the speaker: Mike Haridopolos, a Republican, is the president of the Florida Senate.  Haridopolos represents District 26 which spans portions of Osceola, Brevard and Indian River counties. He was elected to the state senate in 2003, and previously served in the State House of Representatives.
Date: June 9, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: an 'Orlando Sentinel' op-ed
Fact-check justification: There are elements of  in each . The $500 billion in "cuts" are actually cuts to future increased spending , so we give Haridopolos some credit for not simply calling it cuts to Medicare as so many others have done. And Medicare Advantage isn't going away as part of the new health care law. Instead, the law tries to put Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare programs on even-footing with respect to costs to the taxpayer. We rate this  .
Statement: During protests outside the White House, Mayor Muriel Bowser "wouldn't let the D.C. Police get involved.
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 30, 2020
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;race and ethnicity;public safety
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said that during protests outside the White House on May 29 and into May 30, Bowser "wouldn't let the D.C. Police get involved." That’s , and Trump offered no  to support the attack. The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington coordinated with the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Park Police and also provided some equipment, including helmets. The district’s police were "on the scene," the Secret Service said. We rate Trump’s statement !
Statement: Says Italy arrested a doctor "for intentionally killing over 3,000 coronavirus patients.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 31, 2020
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: That’s because it’s not a real news story.   The photo of the man in the blog post is from the Anderson, Ind., newspaper, the Herald Bulletin, which reported in 2014 on the arrest of a physician charged with several drug offenses. A doctor accused of murdering more than 3,000 people, not to mention coronavirus patients, would draw wide media attention. And yet searching for information about Dr. Sergio Kerr, we found no such reports.   We rate this blog post .
Statement: The difference over the (previous) four years between where things were headed and where we brought them to over the last four years is a total of $816 in saved property tax money.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: December 17, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: remarks to reporters
Fact-check justification: And the actual four-year savings under Walker is only $141. For a statement that contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page . ------ More on Scott Walker For profiles and stories on Scott Walker and 2016 presidential politics, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Scott Walker page .
Statement: Says, regarding the presence of classified information in her email, FBI Director James "Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I've said is consistent with what I have told the American people.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: July 31, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Clinton said regarding the presence of classified information in her email, FBI director James "Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I've said is consistent with what I have told the American people." A reasonable person would interpret Clinton’s statement to mean that Comey has endorsed her public remarks about her email. This is not the case. Talking specifically about Clinton’s closed-door FBI interview, Comey said there is "no basis to conclude she lied to the FBI" about her email practices. But Comey has specifically declined to comment on whether Clinton’s public remarks have been accurate. Further, while not explicitly rebuking Clinton’s public comments, Comey highlighted a major problem with them. Clinton repeatedly said she did not have any classified information whatsoever in her email, marked or unmarked. After the FBI investigation, including the interview with Clinton, Comey said she unequivocally did. We rate her  .
Statement: The city of Atlanta has one of the highest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender populations per capita, ranking third among major American cities.
Speaker: alex wan
About the speaker: Alex Wan is the District 6 member of the Atlanta City Council, which includes intown neighborhoods like Midtown, Morningside and Virginia-Highland. He is the director of Development for Jerusalem House, Atlanta's oldest and largest provider of permanent, supportive housing for homeless or low-income individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS.
Date: December 3, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: lgbtq;marriage
Context: a resolution
Fact-check justification: The first part of Wan’s  appears accurate. But even these numbers are open to interpretation. It appears Atlanta is a little lower than third in the other part of the . Overall, Wan’s statement is probably accurate, but it needs a lot of context. We rate it: .
Statement: Student ID cards are a "source of fraud" at the polls.
Speaker: tina lambert
About the speaker: Tina Lambert won the general election for Idaho House of Representatives District 23B on Nov. 8, 2022.
Date: February 20, 2023
Location: national
Topics: elections;voter id laws
Context: a statement of purpose about a bill
Fact-check justification: Lambert said that student ID cards are a "source of fraud" at the polls. The burden of proof is on the speaker. Lambert has provided no examples showing that student IDs have been used to commit voter fraud. We could not find a single case of a person charged or prosecuted for fraudulently using a student ID to vote. In the absence of , we rate Lambert’s  . RELATED : As extremes shape voter ID debate, the rules keep getting stricter RELATED :  All fact checks about voter ID laws RELATED : 'View' host Sunny Hostin has scant  for claiming GOP wants to raise voting age to 28