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Statement: 'Scary' fact about our national debt. In 1791 it was $75 million. Today, it rises by that amount in about an hour.
Speaker: adam hasner
About the speaker: Adam Hasner, R-Delray Beach, is a former Majority Leader for the Florida House of Representatives.
Date: May 10, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: federal budget
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Hasner relied on a months-old news story, without attributing it, for his string of "scary" debt tweets. That posed a problem for part of his first , that the hourly increase of the debt is $75 million. His message -- that the debt is huge and growing rapidly -- is accurate, but he would have achieved a more up-to-date total had he done his own math. He is off by millions of dollars. We rate his  .
Statement: Nevada Republican Senate nominee "Joe Heck voted to criminalize abortion for rape victims.
Speaker: planned parenthood votes
About the speaker: Planned Parenthood Votes is a "super PAC" affiliated with Planned Parenthood, nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care services, including abortion.
Date: September 7, 2016
Location: nevada
Topics: abortion;women
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: The Planned Parenthood Votes ad said that "Joe Heck voted to criminalize abortion for rape victims." The group has a point that a bill Heck voted for and co-sponsored would have criminalized medical professionals from performing abortions after 20 weeks for rape victims who are not at risk of death or significant physical health complications due to pregnancy, at least in Washington, D.C. This would have eliminated all legal abortions for women in that category. However, the ad blurs the issue of whether medical professionals or the women themselves would be at risk of prosecution. Only medical professionals would face legal consequences under the bill, but the ad’s imagery implies otherwise, using only women as visuals. On balance, we rate the ad .
Statement: Says Patrick Murphy has "taken more money from Wall Street than any other member of Congress other than the speaker and the majority leader.
Speaker: alan grayson
About the speaker: Alan Grayson was initially elected to Congress in 2008, then defeated for re-election in 2010. He was elected again to Congress from a different district in 2012. He lost the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Florida in 2016.
Date: June 30, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: campaign finance
Context: an interview with the "Tampa Bay Times" editorial board
Fact-check justification: Grayson said Murphy has "taken more money from Wall Street than any other member of Congress other than the speaker and the majority leader." Grayson is right that in the 2015-16 cycle, Murphy raised more money from employees of Wall Street-related fields than any other House member after the House speaker and majority leader. Murphy did not raise as much in his previous two congressional bids, but in context it is clear that Grayson was talking about their current race for the Senate. We rate this statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/8373c4d3-f23b-40ca-a0a0-0b0e845b7522
Statement: Trump's Android device believed to be source of recent White House leaks.
Speaker: theseattletribune.com
About the speaker: A website associated with posting fake news.
Date: February 26, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: In any event, that’s what the hashtag means now , as thousands of people have used it while tweeting out TheSeattleTribune.com link. The story keys off a maelstrom of news about leaks from the White House , combined with Trump’s penchant for tweeting and his reported actual use of an unsecured Android phone . But this story? It’s . We rate it !
Statement: Of course, there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day.
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 17, 2016
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;elections
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "Of course, there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day." Actual instances of voter fraud — such as voter impersonation, ballot stuffing and bought votes  — are extremely rare, often unintentional and not on a scale large enough to affect a national election. Trump's alarming , once again, is without proof. We rate Trump’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/43048df5-6484-4ff3-b329-62f96846cd82 Correction : A previous version of this story incorrectly characterized Joe Concha's current job title. He is a media reporter and columnist at The Hill.
Statement: Says Gov. Chris Christie's proposed budget is "the biggest spending budget in the history of the state of New Jersey. It is the largest in the nation at this point in time.
Speaker: vincent prieto
About the speaker: Vincent Prieto is a Democratic assemblyman who represents parts of Bergen and Hudson counties. Prieto serves as chairman of the Assembly Budget Committee.
Date: June 17, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: state budget;states
Context: an interview on My9 News' “New Jersey Now”
Fact-check justification: In a discussion about whether New Jersey can afford a tax cut considering lower-than-expected state revenues, Prieto said Christie’s proposed budget is "the biggest spending budget in the history of the state of New Jersey. It is the largest in the nation at this point in time." The governor’s fiscal 2013 budget calls for $32.15 billion in state spending. That’s the third largest -- not the largest -- budget proposal in state history. A spokesman for Prieto said the assemblyman was referring to a broader measurement of spending, which includes federal funds. But Prieto did not make that distinction. Also, New Jersey’s budget is not the largest in the nation. We rate this  . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: At John Lewis funeral Obama told a room full of people that rooms full of people is too dangerous so we must mail in vote.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 31, 2020
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "Once we pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act," he said, "we should keep marching to make it even better by making sure every American is automatically registered to vote, including former inmates who’ve earned their second chance; by adding polling places, and expanding early voting, and making Election Day a national holiday, so if you are someone who is working in a factory, or you are a single mom who has got to go to her job and doesn't get time off, you can still cast your ballot." A few days before Lewis died, Obama tweeted that "voting by mail shouldn’t be a partisan issue — especially during a pandemic." He said "everybody should be able to request an absentee ballot and make their voice heard in every election." But he didn’t raise that issue during his eulogy. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: They found 60 votes in the Senate in 2006 and 2013" for immigration legislation, and "each time the House Republican majority refused to take it up.
Speaker: ronald brownstein
About the speaker: Ronald Brownstein is a senior political analyst for CNN and senior editor at The Atlantic.
Date: January 23, 2018
Topics: immigration;punditfact
Context: a CNN interview
Fact-check justification: Brownstein said, "They found 60 votes in the Senate in 2006 and 2013" for immigration legislation, and "each time the House Republican majority refused to take it up." Senators did pass immigration bills in 2006 and 2013 with 62 and 68 votes, respectively. Both times, House Republicans did not address the proposals on the House floor. We rate Brownstein’s  .
Statement: He was a member of the Iraq Study Group and was either fired or quit from a very important commission that was trying to figure out the way forward in Iraq.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: November 26, 2007
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: Interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: " On May 31, 2006, the group announced former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III would replace Giuliani. At the time, Giuliani said: "My previous time commitments do not permit me the full and active participation that the Iraq Study Group deserves." It's unclear whether he was fired or forced to quit, but consider this: During his two-month tenure on the panel, between March 15, 2006, and May 24, 2006, Giuliani made 30 paid appearances for a net revenue of $2.25-million, according to his financial disclosure forms. Pretty simple to us; McCain's attack is .
Statement: In Germany, millions of solar panels are blanketed in snow and 30,000 wind turbines are sitting idle because there's no wind.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: September 25, 2022
Topics: environment;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: Some of the snowiest countries in the world use solar power.   An Instagram post says, "In Germany, millions of solar panels are blanketed in snow and 30,000 wind turbines are sitting idle because there’s no wind. "  There is no data or  to support this . German solar and wind production energy production experienced no sudden drops the first time this rumor started in February 2021, nor recently.   We rate this  .
Statement: There was a Gallup poll in Egypt last year, and 70 percent of Egyptians don't want our money.
Speaker: rand paul
About the speaker: Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas. 
Date: July 8, 2013
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;polls and public opinion
Context: a Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: Paul said, "There was a Gallup poll in Egypt last year, and 70 percent of Egyptians don't want our money." That actually understates what Gallup found. One of the firm’s polls from April 2012 found that 82 percent of Egyptians opposed such aid. Other polls and regional experts confirm the existence of such levels of opposition. We rate the  .
Statement: Tampa is "the strip club capital of the world.
Speaker: ellyn bogdanoff
About the speaker: State Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff of Fort Lauderdale is running for the Florida Senate.
Date: January 9, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: economy;pop culture
Context: Tallahassee
Fact-check justification: Look, we won't lie: We were kind of hoping this  might be , if for no other reason than the potential play on words. Hot ! Pants(less) on Fire! Pants off Fire. But we're not quite there, in large part because we were unable to find precise strip club data for Tampa. That said, while people might say Tampa is the strip club capital of the world, the  is bare. Experts say Tampa isn't even the strip club capital of Florida. We rate the statement .
Statement: John McCain "voted against the Bush tax cuts, both times.
Speaker: citizens united political victory fund
About the speaker: Citizens United Political Victory Fund states that its mission is to support conservative candidates running for federal office who share a vision of reducing the size and scope of government, lowering taxes, cutting spending, promoting traditional family values and winning the war on terror. The group has opposed Sen. John McCain and Rudy Giuliani in the Republican Party primary. It is based in Washington, D.C.
Date: February 1, 2008
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: But by using the word "both," it implies there were only two votes. It doesn't mention the 2006 vote when McCain changed position and voted in favor of a tax cut extension. (Clinton voted in favor of the 2006 tax cuts as well.) We have to deduct a little bit for leaving the impression that there were only two votes on the tax cuts, but the ad is correct that McCain voted against the measures. So we find the statement that McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts "both times" to be .
Statement: Portland, Ore., has "never gotten over 12 to 15 percent ridership" of its public transit system "in the past 12 years.
Speaker: steve brown
About the speaker: Steve Brown, a Republican, is a commissioner on the Fayette County Board of Commissioners.
Date: May 22, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: transportation
Fact-check justification: Brown’s statement would be correct if he were just talking about Portland commuters. But the actual "ridership" (Brown’s word) increases substantially when you include the people who use rail a few times a month. Throw in infrequent riders and the number skyrockets. Brown’s statement is  and needs a lot of context to move any higher on the -O-Meter. He earns a .
Statement: Scott Walker has even removed the 250,000 jobs promise from his website.
Speaker: mike tate
About the speaker: Mike Tate is chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. He previously worked for Jim Doyle, the former Wisconsin governor, a public employee union and a voter mobilization organization. 
Date: December 3, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;jobs;workers
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Our rating Tate said Walker has removed the promise to create 250,000 jobs from his website. We checked the campaign website and the governor’s official state website. The promise is there, and is repeated in numerous videos and news clippings. Even a simple search leads to that conclusion. We rate the  .
Statement: Congress has cut funding, has slashed funding, for veterans' benefits over these last years.
Speaker: katrina vanden heuvel
About the speaker: Katrina vanden Heuvel is the editor of The Nation.
Date: May 18, 2014
Topics: federal budget;health care;veterans;punditfact
Context: a discussion on CBS' "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: On Face the Nation , Vanden Heuvel said, regarding the VA health care allegations, that "Congress has cut funding, has slashed funding, for veterans' benefits over these last years." That’s , as vanden Heuvel acknowledged to PunditFact. VA health care and "veterans’ benefits" aren’t the same thing, and the pot of money that paid for VA health care has gone up every year. No reasonable definition of "cut" -- much less "slash" -- fits the data, experts told us. We’re rating the  she made on national television, and we rate it .
Statement: Afghanistan has more hectares (of opium poppies) planted today than they had before we started this war.
Speaker: ted yoho
About the speaker: Ted Yoho has represented Florida's 3rd district in the U.S. House of Representatives since his election in 2012. He has practiced as a veterinarian.
Date: March 28, 2017
Topics: global news service;drugs;foreign policy
Context: a House hearing
Fact-check justification: Yoho said Afghanistan has more land producing poppies than before the U.S. war began. U.N. surveys back that up. In 2002, the country had about 74,000 hectares in poppy cultivation. In 2016, the number was over 200,000. The amount of land used for growing poppies has gone up and down, but the long term trend is definitely up. We rate this  .
Statement: West Virginia has "the nation's lowest workforce participation rate, which hovers around 50 percent, when the national average is about 63 percent.
Speaker: e. gordon gee
About the speaker: E. Gordon Gee is is president of West Virginia University. His current tenure in office began in 2014, but he was first named WVU president in 1981 at age 36 – at the time, among the youngest persons to ever serve as a university president. He led West Virginia University until 1985, then went on to presidencies at the University of Colorado (1985-90), Brown University (1998-2000) and Vanderbilt University (2001-07). He served as president of the Ohio State University from 1990-97 and again from 2007-13. 
Date: January 14, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: economy;jobs;workers
Context: an op-ed
Fact-check justification: Gee said, "We have the nation’s lowest workforce participation rate, which hovers around 50 percent, when the national average is about 63 percent." He was very close on all three elements of the statement, and he gave himself some breathing room by using the words "around" and "about." We rate his statement .
Statement: ObamaCare will use your tax dollars to provide free Viagra to convicted rapists and registered sex offenders.
Speaker: cathie adams
About the speaker: Cathie Adams served as the Republican Party of Texas chair from October 2009 to June 2010. She was previously elected to the Republican National Committee and has been a delegate to every state and senatorial district Republican convention since 1988. Before becoming chair, she helmed the Texas Eagle Forum. She lives in Dallas.
Date: June 21, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: health care
Context: a fundraising letter
Fact-check justification: Yes, the CRS memo says plans offered through the exchanges aren't barred by the new law from offering just such a benefit. But the plans won't be finalized until 2014. Besides, anyone who joins such a plan will have to qualify for subsidies based on income. Also, no drugs will be free. We rate her statement as .
Statement: Trump declares globalist Soros as 'national security threat' using Obama's 2014 executive order.
Speaker: conservative daily post
About the speaker: The Conservative Daily Post is a website based in Las Vegas whose goal is to "do our part to destroy the 'politically correct' behavior that has inhibited true liberty and democracy in America for so long."
Date: January 30, 2018
Topics: fake news;foreign policy;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: "His foundation is pretty sober-minded, reasonably well regarded in Ukraine." We emailed the Conservative Daily Post and did not get a reply. The Las Vegas-based website states that it "thrives on independent journalism and ;" however, the story about Soros is not based in . We found no proof that Trump declared Obama a "national security threat." We rate this story .
Statement: The streetcar project planned by Mayor Tom Barrett would be a "1900s style trolley.
Speaker: jim steineke
About the speaker: Rep. Jim Steineke (R-Kaukauna) was first elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 2010 and represents the 5th district in the Fox Cities area. He was named by his fellow Republicans as Assembly Majority Leader in the fall of 2014.
Date: November 19, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: transportation
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: His Twitter followers may not be following the project closely, but Steineke certainly knows Barrett isn’t planning a nostalgic system with old-time or refurbished cars. The city sees the streetcar as a modern transportation system, a building block that could lead to future economic growth. In theory, it’s a catalyst rather than a throwback. And at least some other cities see streetcars in the same light. We rate Steineke’s  .
Statement: Video shows someone wearing an Anthony Fauci mask.
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: March 4, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Fauci appeared on CNN that day . There is no  to support the  that he has been arrested, much less executed. Fauci is 80 years old . And what some social media users are describing as a mask is simply the skin on his neck. We rate this post .
Statement: Says the Austin chapter of the League of Women Voters has no Republicans among elected officers or on its debate committee.
Speaker: steve munisteri
About the speaker: Munisteri, initially elected to chair the Republican Party of Texas in 2010, is a longtime GOP activist. He helped found Young Conservatives of Texas in the 1980s. He says on a state party website that he retired from law practice in 2008 to concentrate on other financial and business interests.
Date: August 31, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: bipartisanship
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: His --"there are no Republicans among their elected officers or on their debate committee"--is staked to the not-always-so premise that primary voting patterns prove one's partisan lean. Still, the verifiable vote histories of the 11 people cherry-picked in the statement seem to demonstrate common Democratic inclinations. That said, it appears that two elected board members voted in this year's Republican primary including DuBose, who told us she considers herself a Republican. Her voting history alone--which the party had in hand before Munisteri made his statement--weakens the  that no Republicans guide the chapter. We rate Munisteri's statement .
Statement: 90,000 Californians are unsheltered and homeless.
Speaker: darrell steinberg
About the speaker: Steinberg was elected Sacramento mayor in 2016. Before that, he served in the California Legislature from 1998 to 2014, serving as state Senate President for his final six years. 
Date: October 24, 2019
Location: california
Topics: homeless;housing
Context: an interview with Capital Public Radio
Fact-check justification: It backs up the mayor’s , showing California had nearly 130,000 homeless individuals in 2018, of which nearly 90,000 were unsheltered.   We rated Steinberg’s statement .  – 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: Massachusetts under Gov. Mitt Romney initially ranked last among states in job growth, but by the end of his governorship, "we were in the middle of the pack.
Speaker: eric fehrnstrom
About the speaker: Eric Fehrnstrom is a former Boston Herald political reporter and state house bureau chief who later became assistant state treasurer in Massachusetts. After a stint as a private-sector consultant, Fehrnstrom took a senior position with the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney.
Date: June 3, 2012
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;jobs;states
Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
Fact-check justification: However, in 2008 he provided advice on aspects of labor policy to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and he has worked as a government economist and served on federal advisory panels under presidents of both parties.) Our rating The Romney camp’s year-by-year numbers are correct: Job growth was sluggish early in Romney’s gubernatorial term, and then less so by the time he was ready to leave office. However, Romney -- like the Obama campaign before it -- is exaggerating Romney’s influence on the state job market. Governors simply don't have that much impact. On balance, we rate the statement .