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Statement: Says, "In the last four years we've cut $36 million in ongoing revenue.
Speaker: sam adams
About the speaker: Sam Adams is the mayor of Portland. Before that he was a city commissioner and , for 11 years, was chief of staff to then-Mayor Vera Katz.
Date: November 13, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: city budget;city government
Context: a budget meeting
Fact-check justification: That’s not , even if his spokeswoman stands by the statement. His statement contains some connection to reality: The city has not been able to spend $36 million that it needed to maintain current services over the four years. Part of the reason is because the mayor and council chose instead to spend $10 million on other programs. The remaining $25 million was based on an expectation of maintaining the status quo. We rate the statement .
Statement: A Canary Islands volcano eruption could lead to a mega tsunami in the U.S., with a 160-foot wave and no warnings.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 29, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A video shared on Facebook shows an unidentified man warning of a major tsunami threat resulting from the La Palma volcano eruption, with a 160-foot wave and no warnings. The National Tsunami Warning Center said that it’s monitoring the volcano and that there is no tsunami hazard for the U.S. East Coast from the La Palma volcano. Volcano collapses are rare and unlikely to happen all at once. If La Palma were to collapse quickly, the eastern coast of the United States would likely experience waves between 3 and 7 feet high, similar to common storm surge. We rate this  .
Statement: Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis "voted against aid for Hurricane Sandy.
Speaker: yuh-line niou
About the speaker: In 2016, Yuh-Line Niou was elected to serve the 65th Assembly District, representing the following lower Manhattan neighborhoods: the Lower East Side, Chinatown, South Street Seaport area, Financial District and Battery Park City. She previously served as Chief of Staff for New York State Assemblymember Ron Kim
Date: September 28, 2022
Location: national
Topics: congress;weather;florida;new york
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Niou said Rubio and DeSantis "voted against aid for Hurricane Sandy." Niou is on firmer ground about DeSantis but omits that Rubio voted against the larger Sandy aid bill but did vote for less extensive bills. Rubio voted against a $60.4 billion bill for Sandy relief in December 2012, but supported an alternative $24 billion measure that failed. In January 2013, Rubio supported a $9.7 billion aid bill, but not a $50 billion bill. DeSantis voted against both $9.7 billion and $50 billion in Sandy relief in January 2013 as a newly elected congressman.  We rate this statement . RELATED : All of our fact-checks about hurricanes or weather
Statement: Due to actions by President Barack Obama, "the Burger King national headquarters announced this month that they will be pulling their franchises from our military bases.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: June 5, 2014
Location: national
Topics: corporations;jobs;government regulation;military
Context: emails circulating on the Internet
Fact-check justification: The email said that due to actions by Obama, "the Burger King national headquarters announced this month that they will be pulling their franchises from our military bases." There is a legitimate question about whether compensation changes made by the administration could squeeze the profits of fast-food restaurants on Navy and Marine bases to the point where they feel the need to shutter their outlets. But the impact of such changes is speculative, and as far as the specific  about Burger King is concerned, it’s pure fiction that the company announced a sweeping departure from military bases. We rate the  .
Statement: Significantly more people died of Covid-19 in two months than died of overdoses all of last year or the year before.
Speaker: monica wallace
About the speaker: Monica P. Wallace is a Democratic state Asembly member in New York's 143rd district, representing a Cheektowaga and environs.
Date: June 8, 2020
Location: new york
Topics: drugs;public health;coronavirus
Context: a newspaper interview
Fact-check justification: Wallace said that significantly more people died of Covid-19 in two months than died of overdoses all of last year or the year before. She’s correct. Nationally, more than 96,000 Americans died of the coronavirus in April and May 2020, compared to a bit more than 70,000 Americans who died of drug overdoses in the higher of the two most recent years, 2017. We rate the statement .
Statement: In Wisconsin, teachers make $89,000 in salary and benefits, compared to $48,000 for all other workers in the United States.
Speaker: eric bolling
About the speaker: Eric Bolling is a conservative political commentator. He is a former Fox News host.
Date: February 21, 2011
Location: national
Topics: education;labor;pundits
Context: his Fox Business Network program
Fact-check justification: On average, Wisconsin teachers are far more highly educated than the average worker. People with higher levels of education tend to make more. And so we rate Bollings' comparison .    Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: George H.W. Bush has died at 94.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 1, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a fake news blog post
Fact-check justification: A great joy to welcome home the newest member of our family, "Sully," a beautiful -- and beautifully trained -- lab from @AmericasVetDogs . Could not be more grateful, especially for their commitment to our veterans. pic.twitter.com/Fx4ZCZAJT8 For the record, the surviving former presidents include Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The New York Timely Reports has a web address of www.nytives.com, which is one letter off from the New York Times website address, www.nytimes.com . Clearly the site is meant to trick people into clicking. This  rates .
Statement: The laws governing Agenda 2030 land development allows the government to seize polluted lands and move their residents to … smart cities.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: February 20, 2023
Topics: environment;transportation;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claimed that laws governing the U.N. Agenda 2030 land development allows the government to seize polluted lands and forcibly move residents to smart cities, where their habits and movements will be tracked and limited. The U.N.’s Agenda 2030 is a 2015 resolution containing goals for member states to strive to achieve by 2030, ranging from reducing poverty and hunger to protecting the climate. The U.N. has no power to set laws in countries, which would try to achieve those goals by setting their own policies. There is no mention in the U.N. document or list of goals about seizing polluted land or moving people to smart cities.  We rate the  .
Statement: NASA warns of "internet apocalypse," which "means they can execute the Great Reset in silence without anyone knowing it.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 25, 2023
Topics: space;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook reel
Fact-check justification: Also, there’s no  NASA’s Parker Space Probe mission is a cover-up for something nefarious. NASA’s website doesn’t mention "the Great Reset," which started as a set of global policy ideas proposed by the World Economic Forum at the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset, but has since been hijacked by conspiracy theorists. The theory’s believers saw the World Economic Forum’s proposal as proof that "global elites want to use the coronavirus as a tool to reorganize global societies and economies to their benefit at the expense of ordinary people, with the ultimate goal of a global totalitarian regime," according to the Anti-Defamation League . But this conspiracy has been widely debunked . We rate the  that NASA warned of an "internet apocalypse" so the Great Reset could occur undetected .
Statement: Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, cast votes for TARP, the stimulus, and an individual mandate for health care.
Speaker: george will
About the speaker: George Will is a conservative columnist syndicated by the Washington Post.
Date: May 9, 2010
Location: national
Topics: economy;financial regulation;health care;pundits
Context: a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week
Fact-check justification: But he was  that Bennett voted for Obama's stimulus bill, and it was  for him to suggest that Bennett cast a vote for an individual mandate. He actually voted against a bill with an individual mandate, even though he also co-sponsored a bill that included an individual mandate that didn't advance out of committee. We rate Will's characterization of Bennett's votes .    Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: Says U.S. Senate opponent Ron Johnson "is opposed to all government-assisted student loans.
Speaker: russ feingold
About the speaker: Russ Feingold served as a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Wisconsin from 1992 until 2010, when he was defeated for re-election. An attorney, he previously served 10 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. Following his Senate defeat, he founded Progressives United, which says it mission is to "stand up to the exploding corporate influence in our political system by organizing and amplifying the voices of those who believe that corporations have too much power." Feingold is running against U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, the man who defeated him, in the 2016 election.
Date: June 5, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: debt;education;federal budget;financial regulation
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: So, Johnson voted for a measure that helped student loan recipients in the short term -- although it took the government out of setting interest rates, creating the likelihood that the rates will rise in future years. Our rating Feingold said Johnson "is opposed to all government-assisted student loans." Johnson has said the government never should have gotten involved in student loans , shouldn’t be involved in it and should look to gradually get out of it. But one of his votes helped student borrowers in the short term, though that measure could lead to higher interest rates in future years, since the rates are tied to changes in the financial markets. Feingold’s statement is accurate but needs clarification, our definition of .
Statement: The USPS backdated 100K ballots so they could be counted illegally.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 2, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;states
Context: Facebook posts
Fact-check justification: An array of social media posts have seized on statements from a "whistleblower" to say the USPS backdated 100K ballots so they could be counted illegally. We can’t yet gauge the validity of the back-dating claims, but we do know it’s  to say this affected the Wisconsin vote totals. Absentee ballots had to be received by the time polls closed on Election Day to be counted, and all state election results were reported by the early morning hours of Nov. 4. Pease’s claims relate to actions allegedly taken Nov. 4 and 5. Whatever happened to ballots then, no one was going to count and include them. We rate this  .
Statement: Says state Supreme Court candidate Joe Donald twice "supported" incumbent Justice Rebecca Bradley.
Speaker: joanne kloppenburg
About the speaker: JoAnne Kloppenburg of Madison is state Court of Appeals judge and a former assistant state attorney general. She ran for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2011 and is running for the high court again in 2016. 
Date: February 8, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;criminal justice;elections;legal issues;negative campaigning
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: So, in contrast to the first instance, when Donald’s support for Bradley was unilateral, his support in the second instance was split. Our rating Kloppenburg says Donald twice "supported" Bradley. Donald explicitly endorsed Bradley in a 2013 election for the Milwaukee County Circuit Court. When there was a vacancy on the state appeals court in 2015, Donald supported Bradley by allowing her to use him as a reference in her application, although he also recommended that the governor choose a different applicant for the post. For a statement that is accurate but needs additional information, our rating is .
Statement: One person has been fired" at the Veterans Administration for withholding services.
Speaker: jeb bush
About the speaker: Jeb Bush was a Republican candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He served two terms as the governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is also the brother of former President George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush. 
Date: May 16, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: veterans
Context: a speech at the Iowa GOP Lincoln Day dinner
Fact-check justification: Bush said "one person has been fired" related to withholding services at the Veterans Administration. Bush was referring to Shinseki, who technically resigned but that was amid growing calls for him to be fired. Data through May 14 showed that 18 permanent employees have been fired for patient scheduling, record manipulation, appointment delays, and/or patient deaths. Bush has a point that few have been fired, but he exaggerated when he said it was only one. We rate this  . EDITOR'S NOTE: This version incorporates additional language clarifying what information VA provided PolitiFact.
Statement: There are over 1 million phantom voters on the Florida voter rolls.
Speaker: roger stone
About the speaker: Roger Stone is a veteran political consultant usually for Republicans. He was a consultant for the Donald Trump campaign during the summer of 2015. He lives in Fort Lauderdale.
Date: October 31, 2021
Location: national
Topics: elections;florida
Context: a Gab post
Fact-check justification: Stone said, "There are over 1 million phantom voters on the Florida voter rolls."  This is an unsupported  aimed at discrediting the state’s election administration. Stone is drawing from findings by Defend Florida, a group of Trump-aligned citizens who have gone door to door in search of what they say are invalid voter registrations. While the group has shared some details of its data collection process and findings, it has been opaque about its methodology.  What it has shared suggests the group has tested only a small sample of Florida voters. Their finding also ignores that people inevitably relocate and that there are rules that govern when people can be removed from voter rolls.  Election officials take multiple steps to make sure voters are eligible to cast ballots, including that they are not dead. The statewide election officials association, which represents officials from both parties, as well as state officials have publicly said that Florida’s election was transparent and secure. We rate this statement ! RELATED : What’s in Florida’s new election law? RELATED : Trump falsely describes Arizona audit findings RELATED : Trump’s  distortion about Georgia’s voter rolls
Statement: The COVID-19 vaccines contain "HIV lipid wrappers.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 10, 2022
Location: national
Topics: public health;science;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims that the COVID-19 vaccines contain "HIV lipid wrappers." None of the approved COVID-19 vaccines contain any HIV material. Lipids are fat molecules that encase and protect the mRNA in Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines and have no relationship to HIV, experts said.  We rate this  !
Statement: Pfizer CEO says it's their dream to reduce the population by 50% in 2023.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: May 28, 2022
Topics: health care;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Bitchute video
Fact-check justification: A video claims that Pfizer’s CEO said the company’s goal was to cut the world population by 50% by 2023. But the video was deceptively edited, taking out words to make Bourla appear to say something he did not, and leaving out the context that he was announcing a company program to help people in poor countries get access to its medicines and vaccines. Because the video is not accurate and makes a  , we rate this !
Statement: Says Paul Walker was set to come forward to expose "Clinton Foundation crimes against children in Haiti" before he was killed.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 21, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Los Angeles coroner's office report found that the Porsche Carrera GT was traveling near 100 mph at the time it impacted a power pole and several trees. Investigators determined that the cause of the fatal collision was "unsafe speed for the roadway conditions." Walker’s daughter, Meadow, did file a wrongful death lawsuit against Porsche, claiming that the carmaker took production shortcuts that prevented her father from surviving the crash. The two parties resolved the lawsuit in 2017 and kept the terms of the settlement confidential. As for this , it rates !
Statement: Says up to a quarter of African Americans don't have government photo ID.
Speaker: steny hoyer
About the speaker: Steny Hoyer is the current House minority whip, having served in the position once before from 2003 to 2007. He was majority leader of the House from 2007 to 2011, and is the dean of the Maryland congressional delegation, having served the 5th district since 1981.
Date: December 13, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: elections
Context: an opinion column
Fact-check justification: Hoyer and Lewis stated that "as many as one in four African Americans do not carry the necessary forms of identification to vote" under conditions imposed by photo ID laws -- "government-issued, current photo identification." That figure came from a national survey taken about six years ago and, far as we could tell,  unchallenged since. While other collections of data do not touch on exactly the same point, most indicate that African Americans are less likely than whites to hold varied kinds of government-issued IDs, with percentages of blacks without such ID ranging from nearly 4 percent to more than 26 percent. We rate the Democrats’ "as many as"  .
Statement: Gilbert Gottfried died from the COVID-19 vaccine.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: April 12, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: "In addition to being the most iconic voice in comedy, Gilbert was a wonderful husband, brother, friend and father to his two young children. Although today is a sad day for all of us, please keep laughing as loud as possible in Gilbert’s honor. "  The statement was also posted on an Instagram account that appears to belong to his wife.    Last year, the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency in Illinois shared a Cameo video from Gottfried urging people to get vaccinated at the fairgrounds there.    But claims he died from the COVID-19 vaccine are .
Statement: We have an America where … hard-working families have flat wages.
Speaker: elizabeth warren
About the speaker: Elizabeth Warren is a senator from Massachusetts. Warren was elected to the Senate in 2012 and was re-elected in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024. Warren received a bachelor’s degree in speech pathology and audiology from the University of Houston and a J.D. from Rutgers Law School. In 2019, she announced her race for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out March 5, 2020.
Date: February 5, 2020
Topics: income;jobs;workers
Context: a CNN town hall
Fact-check justification: Warren said that "we have an America where … hard-working families have flat wages." People can disagree about whether a 9.7% increase over six years is fast enough, but is not flat. We rate the statement .
Statement: Our whole food system in this country...most of it is genetically engineered. And (there is) no testing for the health consequences of this food.
Speaker: dennis kucinich
About the speaker: Dennis Kucinich is running in the Democratic primary for governor of Ohio in 2018. Kucinich was elected to Congress in 1996. He previously served as a member of the city council and as mayor in Cleveland, the city where he was born in 1946. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Case Western University. He has been married since 2005 to Elizabeth Harper. He was married twice before and has one child. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 25, 2008.
Date: August 27, 2007
Location: national
Topics: consumer safety
Context: a forum on cancer organized by Lance Armstrong
Fact-check justification: Kucinich is closer to the mark with his  that most food is genetically engineered. The Center for Food Safety, an advocacy group critical of biotechnology, says that a handful of genetically modified crops -  corn, soybeans, canola and cotton — account for most of the foods involved. But the group also estimates that 60 to 70 percent of processed foods contain at least some residual genetically modified organisms.
 Joe Mendelson, the group's spokesman, said Kucinich "has firm ground to say it's penetrated our food markets a great deal. But it is certainly not everything."
Statement: In my 30 year career including dozens of capital cases, not a single client of mine has ever been sentenced to death.
Speaker: tariq el-shabazz
About the speaker: Candidate for Philadelphia District Attorney
Date: April 28, 2017
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: death penalty
Context: In a statement responding to a news article
Fact-check justification: El-Shabazz, however, did not represent Savage in the federal case that led to the sentence. Because he didn’t represent Savage in that case, a spokesperson for El-Shabazz said his  stands as . A former trial lawyer and expert on legal ethics agree. But while  in a legal sense, El-Shabazz’s statement needs clarification. We rule the  .
Statement: The Obama Health and Human Services Department is planning to compile a federal health record on all U.S. citizens by 2014," including "each individual's Body Mass Index.
Speaker: ann marie buerkle
About the speaker: Ann Marie Buerkle is a Republican U.S. representative from New York, having defeated Rep. Dan Maffei for his seat in the 2010 election.
Date: August 10, 2010
Location: national
Topics: health care;privacy issues
Context: a page on her campaign website
Fact-check justification: Snyder also said the campaign "never stated that the (electronic health records) would be compiled in a government file -- only that the government was moving to make sure those files were compiled and contained certain information." We think that this more restrained interpretation -- which is pretty close to accurate -- is undermined by Buerkle's own words, including such phrases as "big government," "unacceptable intrusion by government into the private lives of Americans" and "expansion of federal bureaucracies." We believe a reasonable person would infer that when Buerkle says that "the Obama Health and Human Services Department is planning to compile a federal health record on all U.S. citizens by 2014," including "each individual’s Body Mass Index," she means that federal officials will have access to each person's BMI. That is not at all what is envisioned. As a result, we rate the  .