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Statement: Says Joe Biden's plan for net-zero emissions "would instantly shut down all fracking and all mining immediately in Pennsylvania.
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: September 22, 2020
Location: national
Topics: elections;pennsylvania
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Republican operatives quickly cut a short video of Biden’s remarks to use as a cudgel in races against moderate House Democrats, the Washington Post reported .   The Biden campaign retracted his remarks the night of the debate, but that hasn’t stopped conservative media outlets or the Trump campaign from inaccurately claiming that Biden supports a total ban on fracking. Our ruling  Trump said Biden’s net-zero emissions plan would shut down the fracking and coal mining industries "instantly" and "immediately." Biden’s plan calls for a gradual transition to clean energy. We rate this statement
Statement: Quotes incoming U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as saying "under capitalism, man oppresses man. Under socialism, it's the other way around.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: December 12, 2018
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A viral graphic being spread on social media claims that Ocasio-Cortez said "under capitalism, man oppresses man. Under socialism, it’s the other way around." The phrase itself is a version of an old quote that is meant to disparage socialism or communism. Ocasio-Cortez, who calls herself a democratic socialist, never said those words. We rate it !
Statement: President Joe Biden's day one approach to immigration included "blanket amnesty and halting border wall construction.
Speaker: ashley hinson
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson is a Republican who represents Iowa’s 1st Congressional District.
Date: January 23, 2021
Location: iowa
Topics: immigration
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: While Biden’s executive actions call for a pause of border wall construction with a goal of ending it, none of his day-one immigration related actions call for blanket amnesty. Hinson’s comment on the retweet contains an element of  — the border wall characterization. But it adds something that is not in the Biden order or retweeted news story, giving a different impression of the order than exists in reality. That is why we rate Hinson’s statement as being .
Statement: As long as I have served . . . This is the first time every single solitary decision has required 60 senators.
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: January 17, 2010
Location: national
Topics: bipartisanship
Context: Florida
Fact-check justification: According to the Senate Historian's office, only 39 of them were cloture votes. Indeed, we found plenty of major bills that did not require 60 votes to start or end debate, including a bill meant to give more children health insurance and a bill to prevent mortgage foreclosures. Furthermore, the Senate frequently passes noncontroversial bills unanimously, so there are countless pieces of legislation such as post office namings and resolutions that don't require 60 votes. As we like to say at PolitiFact, words matter; if Biden had said every "major" decision requires 60 votes, he would have been on more solid ground. As a result, we rate his  .
Statement: California Gov. Jerry Brown was "Caught in the Middle of a $60 Billion Corruption Investigation.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 17, 2017
Location: california
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: This isn’t the website’s first headline to mangle the  about Brown and his administration. We rate its  .  – 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: These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans.
Speaker: michele bachmann
About the speaker: Michele Bachmann, first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, represents the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was reelected in 2008. Previously, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. Prior to that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.
Date: October 11, 2011
Location: national
Topics: health care;new hampshire 2012;this week - abc news
Context: New Hampshire
Fact-check justification: Bachmann said, "There's a board called IPAB. It's made up of 15 political appointees. These 15 political appointees will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans." There is a board with 15 members, and most are appointed through a political process, though they must have expertise in health care. But the board is intended to recommend cost savings for the Medicare program. It would not "make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans." We rate her statement .
Statement: Says history suggests sports will "quickly subsume a lot of the attention span of the country" in the presidential primary.
Speaker: hugh hewitt
About the speaker: Hugh Hewitt is the host of a nationally syndicated radio show and a columnist.
Date: September 13, 2015
Topics: elections;sports;punditfact
Context: a panel discussion on CNN's "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Hewitt said fall sports pull voters away from paying attention to the presidential primaries. The polling data from 2007 and 2011 shows that voter interest in election news held steady at about the 50 percent mark. There were brief dips in October that coincided with the American League Championship one year and the World Series the next, but both were only momentary interruptions. The data don’t measure the precise trade-off between politics and sports, but the stability of the audience for election news shows no impact of any external factor, whether it’s sports, weather or anything else.   We rate this  .
Statement: Tuition at Rutgers has increased 10 percent since Gov. Chris Christie took office because he "cut funding for higher education.
Speaker: barbara buono
About the speaker:  Barbara Buono is a Democratic state senator representing part of Middlesex County. Buono previously served in the State Assembly from 1994 to 2001.
Date: August 23, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: education
Context: a speech to students at the Rutgers New Brunswick campus
Fact-check justification: Buono said during a recent visit to Rutgers that the university's tuition has increased 10 percent since Christie took office because he "cut funding for higher education." When looking strictly at tuition costs, Rutgers tuition has increased 7.97 percent from the 2010-2011 academic year -- the first Rutgers budget done after Christie became governor -- to the current 2013-2014. The increase, however,  is 12.27 percent if measured from the year before Christie became governor. As for blame, state law makes clear that the Rutgers Board of Governors -- not the governor himself -- sets tuition rates for the university. And while it's  that Christie did cut education funding, he doesn't bare the bulk of the blame for the tuition hikes. Many factors were involved. As a result, we rate this  . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: The FBI has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton ... and discovered another 650,000 emails.
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: October 31, 2016
Location: national
Topics: ethics;transparency
Context: a campaign rally
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "The FBI has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton ... and discovered another 650,000 emails." Trump has a point that the FBI had stopped actively investigating Clinton emails until the latest development. But experts told us it’s unlikely it was ever formally closed, so "reopen" is an imprecise word. The bigger factual issue is his number. The 650,000 emails were discovered in a separate investigation, and it is not clear just how many are related to Clinton and how many are duplicates of emails already reviewed by the FBI. Reports indicate that the bureau is examining just a small portion of the 650,000 emails. We rate Trump’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/a4340f93-174b-4501-8531-b8b98dd2e7e1
Statement: Says Jeb Bush "happens to be where a majority" of Republican voters are on giving legal status to illegal immigrants.
Speaker: george will
About the speaker: George Will is a conservative columnist syndicated by the Washington Post.
Date: June 14, 2015
Topics: immigration;punditfact
Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Will said that a majority of Republicans support Bush’s stance to craft a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants. Polls show that more than half of Republicans do hold that view. Republican positions have shifted over time and Republican primary voters might take a harder line than the typical Republican voter. With those caveats in mind, we rate the  .
Statement: McCain "said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars.
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 28, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: Denver
Fact-check justification: I commend Senators Kerry and McCain for their efforts on fuel economy standards, but I'm very disappointed in the vote on CAFE." Obama makes it sound as though McCain opposed raising fuel-economy standards for cars, and there are votes to support that . But in 2002, McCain not only wanted tougher standards than most of the Senate did, but he was lauded by a Democratic colleague. Obama gives a  picture of a senator who has been a notable advocate of higher fuel efficiency standards. We rate the  .
Statement: In the 1980s, the state funded 68% of school expenses, and now the state's share is 38%.
Speaker: scott milder
About the speaker: Scott Milder, a former member of the Rockwall City Council, seeks the 2018 Republican nomination for Texas lieutenant governor.
Date: February 6, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: children;education;state budget
Context: a statement posted on Milder's campaign website
Fact-check justification: Milder said: "In the 1980s, the state funded 68% of school expenses, and now the state’s share is 38%." The state’s share of state-local education spending has slid, we confirmed, though not as much as Milder declared. In the 1980s, lawmakers voted for the state to cover 70 percent of the Foundation School Program yet state aid actually covered a little more than half of state-local costs. State aid covered 44 percent of such costs in 2016; it’s expected to cover 38 percent of such costs in 2019. 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: President Joe Biden "employed actors to portray Marine guards" during a Sept. 1 speech.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 3, 2022
Location: national
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: A Facebook video said Biden "employed actors to portray Marine guards" during a Sept. 1 speech.   There is no  that the Marines were actors. The White House said the  is untrue. The  originated from a website that has a history of publishing fabricated stories. We rate this !
Statement: State House incumbent Jill Chambers, R-Atlanta, "personally profits from taxpayer money.
Speaker: georgia house democratic caucus on behalf of elena parent
Date: October 13, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: ethics
Context: a campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: Parent's backers suggest Chambers is wasteful or dodging the rules. But her actual reported expenses in recent years have been less than half of what is allowed by law. Her per diem is set by state statute, and the days she claimed dropped when she could have used the cash. Given the flimsy backing to the , by the Parent camp's rules, you could say any legislator "profits" from her work if she claims per diem and mileage. We therefore rule this  .
Statement: Says the whistleblower hired "left-wing lawyers, left-wing firms, Soros involved in funding one of them.
Speaker: mark levin
About the speaker: Mark Levin is a conservative lawyer, author, and radio personality. He is the host of "The Mark Levin Show on the radio and "Life, Liberty & Levin" on Fox News.
Date: October 3, 2019
Topics: corrections and updates;impeachment;punditfact
Context: on Fox News's "Hannity"
Fact-check justification: Levin said the whistleblower hired "left-wing lawyers, left-wing firms, Soros involved in funding one of them." One of the lawyers, Bakaj, donated $100 to Joe Biden and worked as an intern for Schumer and Clinton almost 20 years ago. None of the lawyers are registered Democrats. Furthermore, there’s no  that their firm leans to the left or receives funding from Soros. We rate this statement . Correction, Nov. 6:  We have corrected a minor word in Levin's quote; it now reads "one" on all references.
Statement: Says U.S. Senate opponent Tommy Thompson favors raising taxes on small businesses.
Speaker: tammy baldwin
About the speaker: Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 6, 2012. She represented Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District from January 1999 to January 2013. She served as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from January 1993 to January 1999. She was a Dane County supervisor from 1986 to 1994 and briefly served on the Madison Common Council, filling a vacancy, in 1986.
Date: September 28, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: debate comments
Fact-check justification: Her campaign cited Thompson’s call to repeal the federal health law, which would end a new small-business tax credit in that law. So there is an element of . But Baldwin ignores the tax increases that would also be eliminated by a repeal, as well as the fact Thompson would create a different version of the same tax credit. More importantly, she skates past Thompson’s emphasis on tax cuts -- in particular his broader support for dramatically lowering income tax rates for business -- to create an opposite impression among voters. We rate her  .
Statement: The Central Falls School system "spent $100,000 on a time clock.
Speaker: john tassoni jr.
About the speaker: John Tassoni Jr., a Democratic state senator from Smithfield, R.I., was first elected to the General Assembly in 2000. He is president of The Sentinel Group, a consulting, marketing, labor relations and media relations firm in Providence. He is publisher of Common Ground, a monthly union newspaper, and previously served as a senior business agent for AFSCME Council 94.
Date: May 19, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: city budget;education
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: He IS all wet. But not to worry. We’re going to flame-dry his Dockers with a  ! (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Says President Barack Obama's "own economists say the stimulus cost $278K per job 'created.'
Speaker: david dewhurst
About the speaker: David Dewhurst, the former state land commissioner, was initially elected lieutenant governor of Texas in 2002. He lost his 2012 bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate and lost his bid for re-nomination in 2014.
Date: July 5, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: economy;jobs;stimulus
Context: a Twitter message
Fact-check justification: Contrary to Dewhurst's statement, the cited cost-per-job figure was not aired by the Obama administration. At bottom, his statement leaves the misimpression that the money went solely for jobs rather than a range of projects and programs, including tax breaks. We rate his  . UPDATE, 4:45 p.m., July 20, 2011 : After receiving feedback from a reader, we updated this item with further details about Recovery Act costs through March 2011. These changes did not affect our rating of Dewhurst's statement.
Statement: Quotes LeBron James as saying, "I don't want nothing to do with white people. I don't believe they want anything to do with me. I don't want no (white) friends. It's me and my boys.
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: June 6, 2020
Topics: race and ethnicity;pop culture;sports;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: "By the end of the year, all of us were best friends," Carter said. Other news outlets reported on the quote  after the show's premiere, and Reuters fact-checked similar posts more recently.    Our ruling  Facebook posts quote LeBron James saying that he does not want to associate himself with white people.   The posts leave out crucial context: When James said this, he was reflecting on how he felt as a freshman in high school when he entered a predominantly white high school. Later in school, James recalled, he became friends with his white peers in the school.
Statement: New York is bombed. At this moment, there are many injured.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: January 22, 2023
Location: new york
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The pipebomb failed to fully detonate and no one was killed in the attack, The New York Times reported at the time. One person suffered shrapnel wounds and two others had hearing loss as a result of the blast, the Department of Justice said . Akayed Ullah was convicted on federal terrorism charges in 2018 and sentenced to life in prison in 2021, the AP reported. We found no  a bomb attack took place in New York City on Jan. 22, and the photo in Instagram posts making the  is from 2017.   We rate the  !
Statement: Says Joe Biden "will redirect the $30 billion" that Donald Trump "left for U.S. farmers to 'climate change.'
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 9, 2021
Topics: agriculture;climate change;federal budget;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: An image widely shared on Facebook claimed that Biden "will redirect the $30 billion" that Trump "left for U.S. farmers to ‘climate change.’" This is a  choice. Biden’s nominee for agriculture secretary has said the administration wants to tap a $30 billion fund that’s available for supporting agriculture broadly to pay farmers to use farming practices that meet climate change goals. It wasn’t started by Trump. But no plan has been announced, and Biden has indicated he also wants to tap the fund for other purposes, such as helping restaurants that have suffered financially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: The legislature was never given the opportunity to debate or vote on loaning $75 million to 38 Studios.
Speaker: dennis algiere
About the speaker: Dennis L. Algiere is a Republican state senator from Westerly, R.I. He is a senior vice president at Washington Trust Company, in Westerly.
Date: May 24, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: baseball;corporations;economy;voting record
Context: a letter to the editor
Fact-check justification: Algiere and his fellow legislators from Westerly and Charlestown say the legislature was never given the opportunity to debate or vote on loaning $75 million to 38 Studios. While the legislature did overwhelmingly approve the $125-million loan guarantee fund, it’s clear from news stories at the time and afterward, and from the tape of the debate, that rank-and-file legislators did not know when they voted that $75 million was meant for 38 Studios, even if some of their leaders did. Whether they should have been more skeptical of the loan guarantee fund is another question. We rule the legislators’ statement  (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Says Gov. Charlie Crist has called him "a rock star.
Speaker: dave aronberg
About the speaker: Dave Aronberg is a former state senator from Palm Beach County who campaigned to be Florida Attorney General and was defeated in the Democratic Primary on Aug. 24, 2010. He was elected Palm Beach State Attorney in 2012.
Date: March 5, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: bipartisanship
Context: campaign Web site
Fact-check justification: So Aronberg is correct. Crist sang his praises and put him on the big stage. We find his  . UPDATE: This item was updated on March 6, 2010, because audio of the original quote shows Crist did not use "almost" as a qualifier.
Statement: Of hospitals in Rick Scott's Columbia/HCA health care company, "A top executive said they even turned away a poor man and left him to die outside their door.
Speaker: florida first initiative
About the speaker: Florida First Initiative is a federal 527 organization running ads in the Florida governor's race.
Date: June 9, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: health care;message machine 2010
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: But Anguiano was not turned away, as the ad claims. He received some care before he was shown the door. Also, court records state Anguiano wasn't intentionally left to die. So while what happened to Anguiano is an ugly tale, it is not as ugly as the story portrayed in the attack ad. We rule this .