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Statement: Says "tax revenues are the lowest they have been since World War II.
Speaker: kurt schrader
About the speaker: Kurt Schrader is a congressman representing Oregon's 5th District. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2008.   He was elected to the Oregon State House of Representatives in 1996 and the Oregon Senate in 2003. He is a veterinarian and an organic farmer.
Date: September 13, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: taxes
Context: a newsletter
Fact-check justification: He also fails to point out another important caveat - that absolute levels of federal tax revenues collected in many of the most recent years have been at or near record levels even though the percentage remains low. That’s because the overall economy has grown, too. All of this muddles the message and leaves out important context. And to find the real result Schrader asks readers to do far too much work. For that reason, we rate this : .
Statement: We created more new jobs in two years than any president did in their entire term.
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: February 3, 2023
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: Philadelphia
Fact-check justification: Biden said, "We created more new jobs in two years than any president did in their entire term." In raw numbers, Biden did oversee greater job growth than any post-World War II president’s first term in office (but not their entire tenure in office, if they served more than one term). But this achievement needs asterisks. Measured by percentage increase from the time the presidents took office, Biden rates in the middle of the pack.  And Biden has easily outpaced every postwar president in job gains per year. However, Biden benefited by taking office on the upswing of a deep recession and has not faced a recession yet, something most of his predecessors experienced during their longer terms. We rate the statement .
Statement: More private-sector jobs were created in the second year of the Obama administration than in the eight years of the Bush administration.
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: September 17, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;jobs
Context: an interview on MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes"
Fact-check justification: Pelosi compared a select time frame in the Obama administration against the entire length of the Bush administration -- a methodology that treats the two presidents unequally. The irony is that if she had used better methodology, she would have had a sounder argument that more private-sector jobs were created under Obama than under the Bush administration. For her general point, we give Pelosi some credit. For her methodological sins -- repeated at least three times -- we give her thumbs down. On balance, we rate her statement .
Statement: Saudi Arabia is "the only Muslim country out of 47 Muslim-majority countries" where women cannot get licenses to drive.
Speaker: dean obeidallah
About the speaker: Dean Obeidallah is a columnist for the "Daily Beast" and an American comic of Palestinian and Italian descent
Date: October 6, 2014
Topics: islam;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Ed Show"
Fact-check justification: Obeidallah said Saudi Arabia is the only Muslim-majority nation that doesn’t allow women to drive. According to our research and independent sources, that is correct. We rate the  .
Statement: Senate health care legislation will "levy a new 'abortion premium' fee on Americans in the government-run plan.
Speaker: john boehner
About the speaker: John Boehner of Ohio is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was formerly the Republican minority leader from 2007-2011, and was the majority leader briefly prior to that.
Date: November 19, 2009
Location: national
Topics: abortion
Context: the House GOP Web site
Fact-check justification: So, back to Boehner's . The bill does not require a fee, or a charge above and beyond the premium cost specifically to cover abortions. And technically speaking, we don't know whether the public option will offer abortion coverage or not. Instead, it gives the Health and Human Services secretary a minimum for estimating the cost of covering abortions. So we give Boehner a .
Statement: When you look at Wisconsin, in their largest city they normally have roughly 500 polling places. They just had their election a week ago, and they had five. That is ludicrous.
Speaker: jay ashcroft
About the speaker: John R. (Jay) Ashcroft is Missouri’s 40th secretary of state. A Republican, he was elected in November 2016.
Date: April 14, 2020
Location: missouri
Topics: elections;wisconsin
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Ashcroft said that for the April 7 presidential primary, Milwaukee would "normally have roughly 500 polling places. They just had their election a week ago, and they had five."  He exaggerated the number of usual polling places by a lot, but he is correct about the number of reduced in-person locations.  His  is partially accurate, so we rate it .
Statement: Fauci admits he isn't listening to the science when advocating policy.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 10, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Rumble post
Fact-check justification: According to the CDC, fully vaccinated people shouldn’t travel if they can help it. Walensky said that because the vast majority of Americans are still unvaccinated the agency would wait to update its travel guidance until "we have more protection across the communities and across the population." While some experts have said they believe that guidance to be overly cautious , others say the caution is needed given the emergence of more contagious variants of the virus. But Fauci clearly didn’t say he was advocating for a policy in spite of scientific , as the headline on this post states. We rate that  .
Statement: Right now, here in Texas, wind power is already cheaper than dirty fossil fuels.
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: March 12, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: energy;states
Context: Dallas at a Democratic National Committee reception
Fact-check justification: Obama, in Dallas, said: "Right now, here in Texas, wind power is already cheaper than dirty fossil fuels." Wind-generated electricity is offered for sale in Texas at lower prices than power fired by coal or natural gas. Unsaid: wind power, unlike electricity fueled by oil or gas, isn’t always available. We rate Obama’s  .  – 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.
Statement: While he was president, President Trump never encouraged Americans to get vaccinated.
Speaker: rachel maddow
About the speaker: Rachel Maddow is the host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show”. She formerly hosted a radio program of the same name on the defunct Air America network.
Date: March 1, 2021
Topics: public health;pundits;punditfact;coronavirus
Context: a TV segment
Fact-check justification: Maddow said, "While he was president, President Trump never encouraged Americans to get vaccinated." Trump expressed confidence in the vaccines and vaccination in many different ways — on Twitter and in public remarks — touting their life-saving potential and saying they would be safe and available to all.  We rate Maddow’s  . UPDATED, March 4, 2:26 p.m.: This fact-check was updated to reflect Maddow’s on-air correction on March 2. The rating is not changed.
Statement: New Haven, Conn., had to issue bonds for a bridge after using funds for that bridge to pay for a police misconduct settlement.
Speaker: tim kaine
About the speaker: Tim Kaine is a U.S. senator representing Virginia, elected to the Senate in 2012. He was the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice president.
Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006, mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and city councilman of Richmond beginning in 1994. He was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983. He took a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, becoming fluent in Spanish.
 
Date: May 24, 2021
Location: national
Topics: city budget;civil rights;legal issues
Context: an op-ed on CNBC
Fact-check justification: Kaine said police settlements can defund city services, as when "New Haven, Conn, had to issue bonds for a bridge after using funds for that bridge to pay for a police misconduct settlement."  In 2017, the city drew a total of $8.4 million from a number of city programs, including $6.35 from a bridge project, to settle a lawsuit against the police. It backfilled the $8.4 million the next year by selling new bonds.  We rate this  .
Statement: After the 9/11 terrorist attacks grounded commercial air traffic, "there was a temperature drop while the airplanes weren't flying, for the week afterwards.
Speaker: michael j. gardiner
About the speaker: Michael J. Gardiner is a lawyer who has run unsuccessfully for Congress twice in the 2nd District, in 2010 and 2012. Born in 1962, he is a graduate of Cranston High School East, the University of Rhode Island and the Western New College School of Law. He served in the Rhode Island Army National Guard from 1981 through 1992. He is divorced with one child.
Date: July 26, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: environment;climate change;weather
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: " Said Gardiner, "I do a better job of illuminating a path for discussion and thought than 'nailing' a precise scientifically unassailable statement." Still, while Gardiner stated incorrectly what climatological event had occurred in the days after 9/11, his point for raising it was well-taken. Gardiner’s underlying point that humans are affecting the climate is accepted by the vast majority of scientists. But he misstated the conclusions of a study that itself has been called into question. We rule his statement .
Statement: Pfizer and Moderna could share their design with dozens of other pharma companies who stand ready to produce their vaccines and end the pandemic.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 3, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A post claims the COVID-19 vaccine shortage doesn’t need to exist because Pfizer and Moderna can share their vaccine designs with "dozens" of other pharmaceutical companies that are ready to produce the vaccines and end the pandemic. This premise oversimplifies the vaccine manufacturing process. First, the post doesn’t mention that Pfizer and Moderna already have partnerships with various contract manufacturers to help speed up vaccine production. Second, industry experts say it’s highly unlikely that "dozens" of other pharmaceutical companies that aren’t already producing the vaccines stand ready to do so. Supplies, personnel training and facility compliance are just a few aspects that make the process complex and lengthy. So while such partnerships are clearly an asset to rapid vaccine production, they are not entirely practical in the grand sense that this tweet implies. The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: No other country" is having a "second wave" of COVID-19 "because they are not trying to unseat a President in November.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 9, 2020
Topics: elections;public health;coronavirus
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: "No other country" is having a "second wave" of COVID-19 "because they are not trying to unseat a President in November," a Facebook post claimed. There is debate about whether the United States is in the first or the second wave of the coronavirus outbreak, although many experts say the first wave has not ended. Surges in new coronavirus cases have occurred in the United States, but in many other countries, as well. We rate the statement .
Statement: One percent of the American people make over 21 percent of all the income in America. That wasn't the way before George Bush became president.
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: October 23, 2008
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: It went from 21.5 to 22.8. We allow that there is a more stark difference in how well the lower 99 percent fared, which backs up Biden's overall point about income disparity growing under Bush.  It has, some. But the percent of income caputured by the top 1 percent has risen fairly steadily for decades, and we think it's  for Biden to suggest this disparity didn't exist before Bush.  And so we only give him a .
Statement: Antony Blinken "confesses that Biden" is responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline leaks.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 4, 2022
Topics: energy;facebook fact-checks;russia
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Blinken talked about working with European partners "to make sure that there is enough energy on world markets,"  keep oil prices down, decrease energy demand and transition to renewable energy.    "Ultimately," Blinken then said, "this is also a tremendous opportunity. It’s a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy and thus take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs. That’s very significant and that offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come, but meanwhile, we’re determined to do everything we possibly can to make sure that the consequences of all of this are not borne by citizens in our countries or, for that matter, around the world. "  We rate claims that this shows Blinken admitting Biden caused the leaks .
Statement: The average family premium has increased by 29% under Obama!
Speaker: republican national committee
About the speaker: The Republican National Committee is the national arm of the Republican Party.
Date: September 4, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The RNC said "the average family premium has increased by 29% under Obama!" The leading study confirms that rise, which occurred over the course of five years. If you calculate the increases on an annual basis, premiums have risen by about 5.8 percent a year under Obama, which is less than half of the average annual rise during the nine years before Obama took office. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: To help balance the 2011-13 budget, Gov. Scott Walker used "a credit card" approach that "pushed over $500 million in debt onto our children and our grandchildren" costing state taxpayers "more than $150 million in interest.
Speaker: tom barrett
About the speaker: Tom Barrett served as the 44th mayor of Milwaukee from 2004 until 2021. The mayoral position is non-partisan. A member of the Democratic Party, he was previously elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly (1984–1989), Wisconsin Senate (1989–1993) and U.S. House of Representatives (1993–2003).
Barrett lost bids for governor in 2002, 2010 and in the 2012 recall race against Gov. Scott Walker. He was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg on Dec. 23, 2021.
Date: May 25, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: But his calling it a "credit card" approach implies that this was an irresponsible action. No one’s claiming that -- it’s something the state did under Gov. Jim Doyle, and not unlike what many homeowners do when they refinance mortgages to better meet their budgets. Indeed, more favorable borrowing terms saved $78 million and helped Walker  his budget is running a surplus rather than a deficit. We rate Barrett’s  . (You can comment on this item on the Journal Sentinel's website )
Statement: Under Wisconsin law, "anyone who knows anything about a John Doe" secret criminal investigation "can't talk about it.
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: June 1, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: campaign finance;county government;criminal justice;elections;crime
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: However, other experts said a secrecy order could apply to commenting on the existence of settlement negotiations because such negotiations could be the subject of discussion during the secret courtroom proceedings. Our rating Asked whether his lawyer was in negotiations to settle a John Doe criminal investigation, Walker said that under Wisconsin law, "anyone who knows anything about a John Doe can't talk about it." A person who knows something about a John Doe by virtue of participating in the secret court proceedings -- if they are individually ordered by a judge not to disclose anything about the proceedings -- is prohibited from revealing such information. But the governor’s statement is overbroad in suggesting that anyone who knows any information about a John Doe can’t talk about it. For a statement that is partially accurate but leaves out important details, we give Walker a .
Statement: Scientists "are shocked to discover that weed kills corona virus
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: February 3, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a photo
Fact-check justification: And the World Health Organization said specifically that smoking and "taking self-medication" are not recommended as coronavirus remedies.   Even though marijuana is used sometimes to treat chronic pain, it’s likely to give users "short-term problems with attention, memory, and learning," the CDC says, and it can be harmful for developing brains. So, maybe not helpful for the coronavirus. It’s legal to recreationally use marijuana in 11 states , but we wouldn’t recommend trying to treat the novel coronavirus with it. We rate this !
Statement: What we have now is the most generous, in my opinion, 'good time' bill in the entire United States.
Speaker: richard ferruccio
About the speaker: Richard Ferruccio has been a correctional officer in Rhode Island since 1984.  He was president of the Rhode Island Brotherhood of Correctional Officers for nine years, stepping down in 2008.
Date: March 8, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: criminal justice;legal issues;crime;public safety;states
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: But he didn’t. He said Rhode Island has the most liberal "good time" law in the nation. That wasn’t  in 2008. And it’s not  now. We rule his statement .
Statement: 90% of rural women and 55% of all women are illiterate" in Morocco.
Speaker: snapchat
About the speaker: Snapchat is a sociale media messaging platform that allows users to send videos and pictures that will automatically deleted after a few seconds of a person viewing them.
Date: June 30, 2016
Topics: global news service;education;women
Context: a snapchat
Fact-check justification: A Snapchat story featuring First Lady Michelle Obama claimed that, in Morocco, "90% of rural women and 55% of all women are illiterate." That data is, in some cases, at least 20 years old -- way older than Snapchat. The  cites old data from a report in 2004, that tracks back to a 1996 USAID request report. The most recent information from UNESCO and UNICEF indicate that Morocco’s illiteracy among women is still relatively high (60 percent in rural areas and 42 percent overall), but much lower than what the snap says. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/452873e9-e53d-4ae9-9483-c9f7c3576d83
Statement: Our legal president, President Trump, has signed a cease and desist order for the COVID vaccines.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: June 5, 2021
Location: national
Topics: public health
Context: a TikTok post
Fact-check justification: Congress formally certified the electoral results on Jan. 6, despite the storming of the Capitol that day by rioters who supported Trump’s  claims of fraud. A Defense Department duty officer refuted the first portion of the TikTok , stating that Biden is the commander in chief.   We looked and did not find any record of Trump issuing such an order against COVID-19 vaccines, when he was president, or since. A press officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was unaware of any cease-and-desist order or letters from Trump.   As for the TikTok post making wild claims about Trump and the vaccine cease-and-desist order, we rate that !
Statement: Says North Carolina banned and criminalized "Islamic Sharia Law
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 23, 2019
Topics: islam;religion;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A popular post on social media says that North Carolina has banned Sharia law and regards it as "criminal." While the  has some basis, it takes a state law vastly out of context to make it appear as if Muslims living in North Carolina are banned and criminalized from personally practicing Sharia law, when it is, in fact, that all foreign laws are prohibited from being applied in state court proceedings. We rate it .