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Statement: UW-Madison "spent down reserves" as it was told to do two years ago and, facing new state budget cuts, has "no more reserves to spend down.
Speaker: rebecca blank
About the speaker: Rebecca Blank became chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in July 2013. She had mostly recently been the acting commerce secretary in President Barack Obama's administration.  She previously served as a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
Date: February 12, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a public meeting
Fact-check justification: And UW-Madison did. But Blank, objecting to even larger cuts in state aid now being proposed by Walker, goes too far in saying UW-Madison has no reserves, given that, at a minimum, $54 million in "discretionary reserves" are available. For a statement that is partially accurate, our rating is . ------ 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: The state of California is begging us to build walls in certain areas. They don't tell you 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: March 13, 2018
Location: california
Topics: immigration;corrections and updates;crime;polls and public opinion;public safety;states
Context: California just sued to stop the wall
Fact-check justification: President Trump claimed "the state of California is begging us to build walls in certain areas," along the border. "They don’t tell you that." There’s no  backing up the president’s mystifying statement. If anything, California and its Democratic leaders are some of the strongest opponents of Trump’s border wall, at least as he’s promoted it. Some state leaders rejected Trump’s  outright while others said they had no idea what he was talking about. We rated Trump’s  . UPDATE: A White House spokesman responded to our request for  after publication. He cited "great efforts" by the federal government "to collaborate with local and state authorities" on a two-mile border wall replacement project in Imperial County east of San Diego. The federal government plans to replace an existing barrier in that county with a 30-foot high bollard-style wall. The spokesman also cited a budget plan to create "14 miles of new border wall system that will replace existing secondary fence in the San Diego Sector." While this show the federal government’s interest in replacing sections of border barriers, they do not support or even speak to Trump’s  "the state of California is begging to build walls" along the border. Our rating remains .  –  The statement is not accurate and makes a  .
Statement: John Cornyn "voted twice in 2013 to back Obama's amnesty plan.
Speaker: steve stockman
About the speaker: Steve Stockman, a Republican from Friendswood, returned for a second term in the U.S. House in 2013 - 16 years after his first term. He unsuccessfully sought his party's U.S. Senate nomination in 2014.
Date: January 31, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;voting record
Context: a campaign email blast
Fact-check justification: Stockman said Cornyn voted twice in 2013 for Obama’s amnesty plan. That’s  to a  degree. For starters, Obama never offered an amnesty plan, though he endorsed the Senate-approved legislation, which envisioned ways that unauthorized immigrants could attain citizenship. This was also the plan that Cornyn consistently voted against; the two "aye" votes singled out by Stockman were procedural, relating to whether floor debate commenced and not to the legislation's merits. Given that Stockman’s  misrepresented both the immigration measure and Cornyn’s votes, it merits flames. !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: The number of Americans who receive means-tested government benefits -- welfare -- now outnumbers those who are year-round full-time workers.
Speaker: charlie sykes
About the speaker: Charlie Sykes is a radio talk show host on 620-AM (WTMJ) in Milwaukee and runs the RightWisconsin website, a political site for conservatives. The station, like the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is owned by Journal Communications Inc.
Date: October 25, 2013
Location: national
Topics: pundits;welfare
Context: a broadcast of the Charlie Sykes Show on WTMJ
Fact-check justification: Sykes said that "the number of Americans who receive means-tested government benefits -- welfare -- now outnumbers those who are year-round full-time workers." Sykes ignored that the article he read, in its first line, described the situation in 2011, not today. In addition, current numbers look quite different from 2011 when the country was at a lower point in its slow climb back from a deep recession. The article also pointed to the original data tables where it was clear that at the very least, the numbers could have blurred the distinction between those who work and those who are counted as recipients. The failure to note the large numbers of children and elderly in the recipient group is also a significant lapse in the context of comparing them to the number of full-time workers. We rate the  . Correction: An earlier version of this fact-check wrongly identified the Media Research Center.
Statement: Healthy pilots are suffering from myocarditis and dropping dead on flights" because of the COVID-19 vaccines.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: April 23, 2023
Location: national
Topics: public safety;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post shares a video of a man saying that "healthy pilots are suffering from myocarditis and dropping dead on flights" because of COVID-19 vaccines.  There may be pilots who have been diagnosed with myocarditis, a rare side effect from the vaccines, or who have blamed the vaccines for adverse side effects. But there is no  that pilots are dying on flights because of the vaccines. The FAA and the International Air Transport Association said they have seen no credible  to support claims that vaccines are causing illness or deaths of pilots on flights. We rate the  . Staff researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report
Statement: Leaked audio tape of the 911 call from the Paul Pelosi attack has surfaced. The call proves that the liberal media has lied about what really happened.
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: November 1, 2022
Location: california
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: "  An audio recording of police dispatch echoes this .   The Instagram post goes on to refer users to the account @red.wave1776, saying it’s the "only place" to find the purported leaked 911 call. That account is private , and the setup is similar to another post we recently checked that claimed to have leaked messages between former President Barack Obama and the judge who signed off on the warrant to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. In that case, account after account referred users to follow yet another account, and no leaked messages materialized.   We rate claims that the 911 call Paul Pelosi placed has been leaked .
Statement: Bloomberg says he wants to ban guns holding more than three rounds.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 4, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says: "Bloomberg says he wants to ban guns holding more than three rounds." The post is  in that Bloomberg made the reference to three rounds in a 2012 interview. And while he suggested restricting the number of rounds that can be fired quickly, and tossed out the idea of three, he didn’t articulate a particular proposal. He also expressed a desire to limit the number of rounds a gun can hold. His 2020 presidential campaign platform includes reinstating the federal ban on assault weapons, which prohibited certain types of semi-automatic firearms along with magazines holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. We rate the statement .
Statement: (Obamacare) is a bill which has never once had a majority of Americans favor it.
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: September 24, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care;polls and public opinion;pundits
Context: on CNN's "Crossfire"
Fact-check justification: Gingrich claimed that Obamacare has never been supported by a majority of the nation. The polls themselves show that yes, approval has hovered around 40 percent for the past few years. But Gingrich eliminates the context of other polls, which show that a majority of people do approve of individual components of Obamacare. Because the statement needs clarification or additional information, we rate his  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/5247c883-0e44-4a72-960c-aeb0178d3048
Statement: Eight of the nine justices in the Supreme Court decision (on campaign finance) said that not only is it constitutional for Congress to require disclosure of the special interest money, but they recommend we do it.
Speaker: charles schumer
About the speaker: Charles Schumer is a Democratic senator from New York and the Senate majority leader.
Date: July 27, 2010
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance;supreme court
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: The bill, for instance, would not allow companies bailed out by the government, such as General Motors, to donate money to political campaigns. "Those provisions are not like the disclosure laws," said Hasen. The Supreme Court doesn't "recommend" that Congress necessarily do anything -- it's just not the court's style. However, certain phrases within a section of the Citizens United ruling do seem to look favorably upon the idea of more disclosure laws. We think Schumer's word choice could have been better, but his general point was correct, so we rate his statement .
Statement: Says the D.C. city council passed a law banning lethal rat trapping.
Speaker: ken cuccinelli
About the speaker: Ken Cuccinelli became acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on June 10, 2019. Cuccinelli, a Republican, was Virginia's attorney general from 2010 to 2014. In 2013, he lost the general election for governor to Democrat Terry McAuliffe. In 2016, he was a adisver to the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
Born in 1968, Cuccinelli has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia, a J.D. from Geroge Mason University School of Law and an M.A. in International Commerce and Policy from George Mason University.
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Date: January 13, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: animals;city government
Context: an interview.
Fact-check justification: But there’s no  those rats exist in the city. The attorney general made no distinction among rats in his comments. We think most listeners would conclude from his comments that the D.C. council by and large has repealed the death penalty for rats. That’s  and . We rate Cuccinelli’s  .
Statement: There are Justice Department policies against" FBI Director James Comey discussing details of a federal investigation "so close to an election.
Speaker: robby mook
About the speaker: Robby Mook, a Democratic political strategist, is the 2016 presidential campaign manager for Hillary Clinton.
Date: October 30, 2016
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;government regulation
Context: comments on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Mook said, "There are Justice Department policies against doing something like this so close to an election." The department prohibits its employees from interfering with elections. That policy generally has included being sensitive about what information is released about pending or active investigations in the days and weeks leading up to the election. However, there is no hard and fast rule, and an expert said Comey has the ability to exercise his judgment based on the facts as he knows them. Mook’s  is accurate but needs that additional information. We rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/6d484835-85f1-4ba4-999e-8405d52337e6
Statement: Former slave Nancy Green, the first Aunt Jemima model, died "as one of America's first black millionaires.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 17, 2020
Topics: history;wealth;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Social media posts say Green, the first Aunt Jemima model, died "as one of America’s first black millionaires." There’s no  Green was a millionaire, and experts say they know of none.  We rate this  .
Statement: Do you know which state has the worst ratio of white voter turnout to African-American voter turnout? Massachusetts. Do you know what has the best, where African-American turnout actually exceeds white turnout? Mississippi.
Speaker: john roberts
About the speaker: John G. Roberts Jr. was appointed Chief Justice of the United States by President George W. Bush in 2005. Previously, he held several positions in the Reagan administration, practiced law in Washington, D.C., and served on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Date: February 27, 2013
Location: national
Topics: civil rights;elections;legal issues
Context: a Supreme Court oral argument
Fact-check justification: Roberts said, "Do you know which state has the worst ratio of white voter turnout to African-American voter turnout? Massachusetts. Do you know what has the best, where African-American turnout actually exceeds white turnout? Mississippi." For several reasons -- including unacceptably wide margins of error, strange year-to-year inconsistencies and problematic coding policies -- the survey data Roberts likely used to back up his point on Massachusetts is questionable. And even if this data source had been reliable for his purposes, Roberts’ decision to hold up Massachusetts as his primary example amounts to cherry picking, since its data diverges significantly from that of its regional neighbors. However, Roberts makes a valid point when he notes that black voter turnout in Mississippi and other deep south states is high, and indeed often exceeds white turnout. So while Roberts is on shaky ground with Massachusetts, he’s on more solid turf when it comes to Mississippi. On balance, we’ll call it .
Statement: We rank 38th in wages. ... (Rick Scott) goes out around the country and advertises that to other states.
Speaker: gwen graham
About the speaker: Gwen Graham lost the Democratic primary for governor in Florida in 2018. She won Florida's second district seat in the U.S. House in 2014 and served for one term. She is the daughter of former Florida Gov. Bob Graham.
Date: July 28, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a speech to Florida delegates at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: Graham said, "We rank 38th in wages. ... (Rick Scott) goes out around the country and advertises that to other states." There are issues with the figure she used, which is both outdated and an improper reading of how wages are calculated. But while there’s no question Florida’s wages are low by national standards, it doesn’t appear Scott has boasted (at least publicly) about this fact while recruiting businesses from other states. The closest example is Enterprise Florida’s California radio ad, which focused on the Golden State’s lower jobs forecast after boosting the minimum wage. While clearly opposing the $15 minimum wage, the ad focused on lower taxes and less regulation, not Florida’s minimum wage. We rate Graham’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/e3466756-1fd9-4fa7-8d70-4ed10bc7f1c8
Statement: A photo of a homeless camp on old railroad tracks is present-day Los Angeles.
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: February 17, 2019
Topics: homeless;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A reverse-image search of the photo led to a December 2015 Daily Mail story that discusses the large Roma community in Paris, often referred to as Roma gypsies, who have built hundreds of shacks using wooden boards and scrap material along an old railway line. The Petite Ceinture is a 19-mile belt that has been derelict for several decades, the Guardian reported in 2016 , and its redevelopment has long sparked debates in the country. Shortly after the migrant crisis hit Europe in 2015, the camp took root. Around the time the photo was taken, the camp , which has no electricity or running water, spanned about 500 meters and was home to approximately 350 people. This post is .
Statement: Fifteen years ago, the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of GDP ... The assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP.
Speaker: sherrod brown
About the speaker: Sherrod Brown is a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Ohio. He won his first elected office to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1974. He later served as Ohio secretary of state and was elected to Congress in 1992. He first joined the U.S. Senate in 2007.
Date: April 25, 2010
Location: national
Topics: economy;financial regulation;regulation;this week - abc news
Context: an interview on "This Week."
Fact-check justification: That changed in 2008 at the height of the financial crisis, when the two firms became bank holding companies so they could borrow from the Federal Reserve. The underlying point, though -- that there has been significant consolidation in the banking industry -- remains , they said. Brown said, "Fifteen years ago, the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of GDP ... The assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP." Independent sources and experts confirm that, so we rate his statement .
Statement: The contagiousness of the coronavirus delta variant is "valued between 5 and 9½," and if the value is closer to 10, "within six weeks, the whole country will test positive for delta, regardless of vaccination.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: July 31, 2021
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a Tik Tok post
Fact-check justification: A TikTok video claims that the contagiousness of the coronavirus delta variant is "valued between 5 and 9½," and if the value is closer to 10, "within six weeks, the whole country will test positive for delta, regardless of vaccination."  One measure rates delta’s contagiousness in the range of what the video states, but it is a theoretical measure that doesn’t take into account steps such as vaccination and social distancing that reduce the risk of getting COVID-19. Accounting for those steps, the reproduction number is far lower. There is no  to suggest that everyone, regardless of vaccination status, could become infected. We rate the post .
Statement: Wisconsin has only one county, Dane, "that's hand counting the votes" in the 2016 presidential recount.
Speaker: sean duffy
About the speaker: Sean Duffy is a Republican member of the U.S. House, representing Wisconsin's 7th District in the northwestern part of the state. The former Ashland County district attorney was elected In November 2010, taking the seat previously held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Dave Obey of Wausau.
Date: December 1, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: county government;elections
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: The "slow walking" part of what Duffy said has to do with Stein and Clinton supporters and nothing to do with Dane County. Our rating Duffy said Wisconsin has only one county, Dane, "that's hand counting the votes" in the 2016 presidential recount. But several dozen counties committed to doing recounts by hand, Dane being one of them. We rate the  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/b3f85e86-7ccc-4ba0-92e7-7491472043c2
Statement: Says he balanced the Milwaukee County budget "without raising taxes five years in a row.
Speaker: chris abele
About the speaker: Chris Abele is Milwaukee County Executive, a position he won in an April 2011 special election to finish out the final year of the term of Scott Walker, who was elected governor in November 2010. The election was the first attempt at political office for Abele, a Milwaukee philanthropist and business owner.
The office is nonpartisan, but Abele has indicated he is a Democrat.
Date: November 2, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: county budget;county government;taxes
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: For a statement that is partially accurate, our rating is . More on Milwaukee County Edward Flynn:  In Milwaukee County, juveniles arrested for car theft "get sent immediately home, because under the point system in juvenile court" on holding suspects, "a stolen car gets zero points."  , Facebook posts: Milwaukee "incarcerates 1.2% of white men" and has "incarcerated over 50% of black men in their 30s."  .
Statement: Says, "I-205, six miles of which runs through my district, already carries more traffic than I-5.
Speaker: jackie dingfelder
About the speaker: State Sen. Jackie Dingfelder is a Portland Democrat representing District 23.
Date: March 4, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: environment;infrastructure;state budget;transportation
Context: a floor speech
Fact-check justification: And we suppose that makes sense, since the Glenn Jackson Bridge is nearly twice as wide as the Interstate Bridge. Ruling: We don’t know how many motorists would head over to I-205 to avoid a toll, but we do know that Dingfelder’s right. More cars already travel across the I-205 bridge than the I-5 bridge. We rate this statement .