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Statement: Since removing the mask mandate two months ago, Texas has not reported a single COVID death. Not one.
Speaker: lauren boebert
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican of Colorado, was elected to serve Colorado’s Third Congressional District in 2020 after defeating longtime incumbent Scott Tipton in the Republican primary. In 2022, a recount confirmed that Boebert won re-election with about 50.06 percent of the vote, defeating Democrat Adam Frisch.
Date: May 19, 2021
Location: colorado
Topics: coronavirus;texas
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  Boebert said during a May 19 interview with Gina Loudon that, since Texas removed its mask mandate, the state "has not reported a single COVID death. Not one. "   A quick look at the state-run COVID-19 dashboard, which tracks coronavirus cases, deaths and other metrics, shows that more than 3,000 Texans have died of COVID-19 since Abbott lifted the mandate on March 10.    We rate this  .
Statement: In the past 20 years, Egypt has made "great strides" in political and democratic reform.
Speaker: sameh shoukry
About the speaker: Sameh Shoukry is the Egyptian ambassador to the United States.
Date: January 30, 2011
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;this week - abc news
Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."
Fact-check justification: There is no meaningful political space here." In our ruling, we find little to support the ambassador's statement that "Egypt has been on a road of economic, political, democratic reform for the last 20 years or more, and it has achieved great strides in that regard." A few things may have improved, particularly in the area of press freedom, but they are hardly "great strides." In fact, the government continues to arrest journalists, police brutality is widespread, and the ruling party maintains firm control. We rate the ambassador's statement .
Statement: Says Ron Johnson "wants to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every single year.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: September 13, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: medicare;social security
Context: Public statement
Fact-check justification: Biden said Johnson "wants to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every single year." Johnson has repeatedly said he wants to put the programs under the stricter scrutiny of discretionary spending so they remain financially solvent. Still, putting them up for an annual review would increase the chances they’d be cut, simply because there would be an opportunity every year to do so.  A rating of  means the statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information.  That fits here.
Statement: While the country's economy was battered, nine states with no income tax actually grew jobs from 2001 to 2010.
Speaker: bettylou decroce
About the speaker: BettyLou DeCroce previously served as the deputy commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Community Affairs. DeCroce, a Republican who represents parts of Essex, Morris and Passaic counties, was appointed to the state Assembly this year to fill the seat left vacant by the death of her husband, Alex DeCroce.
Date: April 8, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: income;jobs;states;taxes
Context: the Gloucester County Times
Fact-check justification: DeCroce said in an opinion column: "While the country’s economy was battered, nine states with no income tax actually grew jobs from 2001 to 2010." A conservative group found that on average states that don’t levy personal income taxes had more job growth during the past decade than the national average. But the absence of an income tax isn’t the only factor driving growth. In fact, two of the nine states without personal income taxes lost jobs between 2001 and 2010. And two states the conservative group points out as having high personal income tax rates gained jobs during the same decade. We rate this  . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: The high-speed rail project would create "60,000-plus jobs for Floridians.
Speaker: corrine brown
About the speaker: Corrine Brown was elected to Congress from the Third District of Florida in 1992.
Date: February 17, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: jobs;stimulus;transportation
Context: an interview with WESH-TV
Fact-check justification: The number of the jobs varies depending on the year of construction, but peaks at a total of 21,600 jobs in the second year of work. Once the high-speed rail line is operational, the state anticipates the creation of 1,100 permanent direct and indirect jobs. Yes, the project creates jobs. But not to the extent Brown suggests. We rate this  .
Statement: Most Americans are ready to put it [marijuana prohibition] behind us and move on.
Speaker: mason tvert
About the speaker: Mason Tvert is the spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project.
Date: October 27, 2015
Location: rhode island
Topics: drugs;marijuana
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Gallup’s survey has found that a "majority" of Americans support marijuana legalization. It’s been a trend that a few of the candidates for president have reflected in their campaigns. Tvert got it right. The statement is .
Statement: Replacing 100,000 old toilets with water-efficient models has saved 2.4 million gallons of water every day.
Speaker: metropolitan north georgia water planning district
About the speaker: The Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District sets policy, creates plans and promotes coordination for all water issues in a 15-county region in and around metro Atlanta.
 
Date: June 16, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: environment;water
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: The Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District recently touted that the region saves 2.4 million gallons of water every day, based on its toilet rebate that has replaced 100,000 commodes with more efficient models. That’s enough to fill 1,363 Olympic-size swimming pools every year. But the district’s own math backs it up. And a comparable federal calculator shows that the district is being conservative in estimating the region’s move toward water efficiency. We rate the  .
Statement: Medicare Part D "was far more expensive than the Affordable Care Act and unlike" the act, "was never budgeted.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 3, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: congress;federal budget;health care
Context: an image shared on Facebook
Fact-check justification: The image shared on Facebook said, "Bush’s Medicare D was far more expensive than the Affordable Care Act, and, unlike the ACA, was never budgeted." It’s a vague  without context. Looking for a reasonable way to evaluate it, we found the Obamacare law was "funded" and Part D "unfunded" and that, using estimated 10-year costs at inception, the former was projected to save $148 billion and the latter to cost something under $501 billion (in 2013 dollars). We rate the  as .  – 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: Rhode Island continues to have the highest rates of substance abuse in the country.
Speaker: ian lang
About the speaker: Ian Lang is chief strategy officer for The Providence Center, which provides mental health and substance abuse services.
Date: May 18, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: alcohol;drugs;public health;states;marijuana
Context: a state Senate committee hearing
Fact-check justification: In summary, the federal study Lang relied upon has a 40-year history and the statistics he cited were accurate. And when we delved into a variety of other categories from the same survey, we found that in many instances, Rhode Island has the "highest rates of substance abuse in the country" -- an alarming distinction. We rate his   . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. Ron Kind has "spent more $ in 100+ days than was spent fighting WWII
Speaker: derrick van orden
About the speaker: Retired Navy SEAL, Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives.
Date: May 11, 2021
Location: national
Topics: economy;elections;federal budget;wisconsin
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Van Orden said "@RepRonKind "has spent more $ in 100+ days than was spent fighting WWII."  According to a 2010 Congressional Research Service report, and additional calculations to cover more recent inflation, World War II’s price tag (in 2019 dollars) was $4.69 trillion. The American Rescue Plan signed into law in March by Biden -- and supported by Kind -- carries a cost of $1.9 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office.  We rate Van Orden’s  .
Statement: Says the U.S. National Archives put a 'harmful content' warning on our nation's Founding documents.
Speaker: glenn grothman
About the speaker: Republican Glenn Grothman, of the Town of Glenbeulah in Sheboygan County, was first elected to Congress in 2014 after serving 21 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. He represents the 6th Congressional District in east-central Wisconsin that includes all or parts of Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Fond du Lac, Dodge, Winnebago, Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties.  
 
Date: September 22, 2021
Location: national
Topics: constitutional amendments;history;wisconsin
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Grothman claimed in a tweet that there were "harmful content" warnings added to the founding documents, such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, on the National Archives website. That may surprise readers and historians alike. He’s right that there are warnings on the founding documents, but the warnings appear on every page within the National Archives’ online database. They don’t single out the founding documents. Our definition for  is "the statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context." That fits here.
Statement: When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, 'create the deterioration of family.' He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, 'avoiding responsibility.'
Speaker: kirsten gillibrand
About the speaker: Kirsten Gillibrand is a senator from New York. Gillibrand was appointed as senator in 2009 to fill Hillary Clinton’s vacated seat, as Clinton became U.S. Secretary of State under Barack Obama. Gillibrand won a special election in 2010 to retain her senate seat and won re-elections in 2012 and 2018. From 2007 to 2009, she served as the representative of New York’s 20th Congressional District. Gillibrand received a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law. In 2019, she ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in August.
Date: July 31, 2019
Location: national
Topics: children;families;workers
Context: the Detroit debate
Fact-check justification: Gillibrand said that when Biden alone opposed a childcare tax credit, he wrote an op-ed in which he said "he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘Create the deterioration of family’ and they were ‘avoiding responsibility.’" That’s not directly what Biden said in an op-ed in 1981 when he opposed expanding the child care tax credit. Biden did not want wealthier families to get the tax credit.  Biden criticized dual-income parents who didn’t need both of those paychecks putting their children in daycare. While he said such families were avoiding the responsibility to care for their children, he didn’t expressly blame women. We rate this statement .
Statement: AARP is "endorsing" the health care reform bill.
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: August 11, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a town hall on health care
Fact-check justification: And the fact is, AARP has not formally endorsed any specific bill. It strongly supports some aspects of the bills. But that's not a formal endorsement. And in fact, Obama was present two weeks ago when AARP's CEO said the group "has not endorsed any particular bill." So we rate Obama's statement .
Statement: In 29 states in this country you can still get fired for not just being gay, but if your employer thinks you are gay.
Speaker: martina navratilova
About the speaker: Martina Navratilova is one of the greatest women's tennis players in history, having won 18 Grand Slam singles titles. She was one of the earliest athletes to come out as gay and in her retirement has been a gay right's activist.
Date: May 5, 2013
Location: national
Topics: legal issues;lgbtq;states;workers
Context: an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: Navratilova said, "In 29 states in this country you can still get fired for not just being gay, but if your employer thinks you are gay." If you frame this statement in the context of blanket protections by states, she’s correct. Still, even in those 29 states, many gay and lesbian employees do have protections, either because they work for the government, because they live in a city that bars such discrimination, or because they work for a company that has pledged not to discriminate based on sexual orientation. On balance, we rate Navratilova’s  .
Statement: The families that are covered through the Low Income Pool is a different group of individuals than are covered by Obamacare.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: May 6, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: health care;medicaid;state budget
Context: Washington, D.C
Fact-check justification: Scott said, "The families that are covered through the Low Income Pool is a different group of individuals than are covered by Obamacare." This makes it sound as if the people who would qualify for Medicaid under an expansion are completely different than patients who leave hospitals with unpaid bills the LIP fund helps pay to providers. Health policy experts said that while there would still be uninsured people not paying their bills under an expansion, plenty of overlap exists between the two, especially at lower incomes. We rate the statement .
Statement: Tim Kaine, as governor, proposed tax increases on people earning "as little as $17,000.
Speaker: george allen
About the speaker: George Allen was a U.S. senator from 2001-2007. He was governor of Virginia from 1994-1998.
Date: July 21, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Allen said that Kaine proposed a tax increase that would have affected people earning "as little as $17,000 a year." Not everyone at that level would have paid more under Kaine’s plan, but it’s a safe bet that large number of them would have seen their overall tax bill rise. We rate Allen’s statement .
Statement: Says that in the U.S. House of Representatives "we've had bipartisan support for the repeal of Obamacare … for getting rid of cap and trade … for building the Keystone Pipeline.
Speaker: marsha blackburn
About the speaker: Marsha Blackburn, a native of Laurel, Miss., was first elected to represent Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District in 2002. Blackburn was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018,
Date: August 26, 2012
Location: tennessee
Topics: bipartisanship;climate change;congress;voting record
Context: an appearance on "Face the Nation" on CBS
Fact-check justification: It’s not unusual for a small number of members of Congress to defy their party’s leadership and vote the way they think is best. Blackburn’s larger point was that, even with bipartisanship on some significant measures, the bills passed in the House aren’t being signed into law because they aren’t being taken up by the Senate, where the various 60-vote requirements for a bill to proceed make passage much more difficult. But we’re not fact-checking whether U.S. federal government’s structure leads to gridlock. Blackburn’s statement that some measures received some level of bipartisan support is .
Statement: And by the way, when I was governor, I did make the payment into the pension fund.
Speaker: richard codey
About the speaker: Richard Codey is a Democratic state senator representing parts of Essex and Morris counties. Codey served as New Jersey governor from November 2004 to January 2006.
 
Date: January 16, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: retirement;state budget
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: In a radio interview, Codey claimed, "when I was governor, I did make the payment into the pension fund." It’s  that the state made a partial payment during fiscal year 2006, whose budget Codey had developed. But the state didn’t make "the payment" in total that was recommended at the time. We rate the statement .  To comment on this story, go to  NJ.com .
Statement: The same system that kept you in the dark about Ghislaine Maxwell…doesn't mind live-streaming Johnny Depp's trial.
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: April 25, 2022
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;facebook fact-checks;virginia
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: That’s been the case for decades. However, the trial was covered widely in the media. Many reporters were in the courtroom taking notes to file stories later, providing live updates as the trial unfolded, filming segments outside for television broadcast coverage, and more.   Depp’s trial is taking place in Fairfax Circuit Court in Virginia, where the decision to allow cameras in the courtroom is left to the judge presiding over the case.   We rate claims about a double standard .
Statement: Says Mitt Romney's plan makes "catastrophic cuts to education.
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 27, 2012
Location: national
Topics: education;message machine 2012
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Obama’s ad said Romney would make "catastrophic cuts to education." The statement assumes Romney would adopt the Ryan budget, a blueprint he has generally embraced. The Ryan budget does not specify any cuts to education funding, but we think it’s fair to expect significant reductions to any domestic program, given that lower spending is the goal of the Ryan proposal. And Romney is on the record as saying he would shrink the Department of Education.     The ad’s  uses exaggeration to fill in the blanks of what Romney might do, but the Ryan budget and Romney's own words point toward cuts. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Nevada state Sen. Michael Roberson "forced Common Core for Nevada schools.
Speaker: danny tarkanian
About the speaker: Danny Tarkanian is a Republican candidate for Nevada's 3rd Congressional District. The son of legendary UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, Danny Tarkanian has mounted several unsuccesful bids for office over the past decade, including runs for U.S. Senate and Nevada Secretary of State.
Date: April 18, 2016
Location: nevada
Topics: education
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Danny Tarkanian’s new ad claims Roberson "forced Common Core in Nevada schools." Although the ad points to a  committee vote, Roberson did indeed approve the regulation adopting Common Core standards back in 2012. However, it’s not accurate to  he "forced" the regulations into schools because the adoption effort started before Roberson took office and was primarily handled by state agencies, not the Legislature. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says his comment about extremists being a JV team "wasn't specifically referring to" Islamic State.
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: September 7, 2014
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;terrorism
Context: an interview on "Meet the Press."
Fact-check justification: Obama said his JV comment "wasn’t specifically referring to ISIL." He was not specifically asked about Islamic State, but it’s pretty clear this is the group that was being referenced in the conversation. The transcript backs this up, as do news events from the time of the discussion. We rate the statement .