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Statement: Says Marsha Blackburn "voted against military pay raise.
Speaker: tennessee democratic party
About the speaker: The Tennessee Democratic Party headquarters are in Nashville.
Date: May 31, 2018
Location: national
Topics: military
Context: an email from the Tennessee Democratic Party
Fact-check justification: The Tennessee Democratic Party said that Blackburn voted against a military pay increase. Blackburn did vote no on a $1.3 trillion appropriations bill that increased pay for members of the armed forces by 2.4 percent. However, over many years, Blackburn has a consistent track record of voting in favor of pay raises for the military. To tie her recent vote to a single part of a massive spending measure leaves out a great deal of context. In this case, the legislation was estimated to add billions to annual deficits. We rate this  .
Statement: If you give guns to gangs, you can get out of jail free, if (California's Proposition 57) passes. If you do a drive-by shooting, you can get out of jail free, if Proposition 57 passes. If you discharge guns on a school yard, you can get out of jail free.
Speaker: loretta sanchez
About the speaker: Loretta Sanchez is a Democratic member of Congress who represents California's 47th district, an area that includes parts of Anaheim, Santa Ana and Garden Grove.
Date: October 5, 2016
Location: california
Topics: criminal justice;crime
Context: a U.S. Senate campaign debate
Fact-check justification: Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez claimed in a U.S. Senate campaign debtate that: "If you give guns to gangs, you can get out of jail free, if (California’s Prop 57) passes. If you do a driveby shooting, you can get out of jail free, if this proposition passes. If you discharge guns on a school yard, you can get out of jail free." Experts agree prisoners who committed crimes deemed ‘nonviolent’ under state law, including the three gun crimes Sanchez listed, could be eligible for early parole if Prop 57 passes. Becoming eligible for a parole board hearing is far from getting "out of jail free." Particularly when less than 20 percent of hearings lead to early release. Sanchez’s figure of speech -- which she employed three times -- greatly alters what otherwise might have been an accurate or  accurate statement. The "get out of jail free" comment is deceptive and distorts what Prop 57 proposes. We rate Sanchez’s statement .    –  The statement is not accurate. Click here for   more   on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/a981d9e1-8d34-4b5c-b8c7-e8c3c6a4e456
Statement: Says 25 percent of U.S. Muslims "agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad.
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: December 7, 2015
Location: national
Topics: islam;polls and public opinion;religion;terrorism
Context: a campaign statement
Fact-check justification: Trump said that 25 percent of U.S. Muslims "agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad." Trump is referring to a poll conducted by the Center for Security Policy. However, polling experts raise numerous questions about the validity of the poll’s results, including its "opt-in" methodology and the dubiously large percentages of respondents who said they were unaware of ISIS or al-Qaida. Moreover, an official with the Center for Security Policy cautioned against generalizing the poll results to the entire Muslim-American community. Another survey, which experts consider credible, found levels about half as high as what the Center for Security Policy poll found. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: California is home to the largest death row population in the Western Hemisphere.
Speaker: yes on 62 campaign to abolish california's death penalty
About the speaker: Yes On 62 is the campaign to abolish California's death penalty
Date: August 1, 2016
Location: california
Topics: death penalty;elections
Context: a twitter image
Fact-check justification: The Yes On 62 campaign to abolish the death penalty said "California is home to the largest death row population in the Western Hemisphere." Death penalty experts and public data show California has nearly 750 people condemned to die. That’s nearly twice as many as the next closest state or country, Florida at 388, in the Western Hemisphere. The  could be confusing to some because California’s death row is smaller than the total number of people with death sentences across the United States. But experts say death rows in the U.S. are ranked individually, making California’s stand far out from the rest. We also found that few countries in this hemisphere still have the death penalty, which is helpful to note but does not take away from the accuracy of the statement. We rate the  .  – 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. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/0599459e-7406-4f74-b9f5-acc2afb79cb6
Statement: Says our national debt is greater than our gross domestic product.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: August 28, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: debt;economy
Context: Tampa, Florida
Fact-check justification: The total federal debt exceeds the nation’s economic output or GDP. However, the public debt -- borrowing that relates to the economy’s strength -- hovers below three quarters of the GDP. We rate this  as .
Statement: Obama's dog has his "own plane
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 17, 2010
Location: national
Topics: transportation
Context: conservative blogs
Fact-check justification: Bo does not even require his own seat, and during the Maine trip he traveled on a government-owned plane with White House staff. We figured that at least some of the bloggers were being satirical, but from our review of reader comments that followed many of the entries, it's pretty clear that there are those who actually took this stuff seriously, so we wanted to set the record straight. So, Bo did indeed arrive in a separate jet, but it's  to  that he has his own airplane. He traveled on a government-owned plane with government staffers who didn't fit in the small Gulfstream G3 that the First Family had to take because of the physical limitations of the Trenton airport runway. We rate this .
Statement: Puerto Rico's electric grid and their electric generating plant was dead before the storms ever hit. It was in very bad shape. It was in bankruptcy. It had no money. It was largely -- you know, it was largely closed.
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 11, 2018
Location: national
Topics: climate change;corrections and updates;energy
Context: press conference
Fact-check justification: Trump said "Puerto Rico’s electric grid and their electric generating plant was dead before the storms ever hit. It was in very bad shape. It was in bankruptcy. It had no money. It was largely -- you know, it was largely closed." Some electric generating plants, not the majority, were inoperative before the storm hit due to maintenance work. The grid was servicing all customers but had important vulnerabilities. Trump's statement is partially accurate. We rate it .   Correction Sept. 13, 2018 : PREPA, the Puerto Rico government utilities program, has debts totaling $9 billion. An earlier version of this story included a different number.
Statement: The 2015 Legislature "passed the fewest laws in 20 years.
Speaker: greg abbott
About the speaker: Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
Date: May 12, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: states
Context: Dallas
Fact-check justification: Abbott said the 2015 Legislature "passed the fewest laws in 20 years." So it did, making this 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. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/567f3a21-93ae-4f1d-a211-9fbf5d954f16
Statement: President Trump has lifted the prospect of voters across Vermont, overseeing a 11,742 decline of Vermont residents on food stamps.
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: November 4, 2019
Location: vermont
Topics: welfare
Context: a campaign email to Vermont media
Fact-check justification: But while he may have overseen a decline of Vermonters using the program, the trend has been occurring for years, since the state rebounded from the Great Recession.   It’s  that the economy has remained strong under Trump’s presidency. But the steady drop in demand for food stamps had started long before he took office, and may not be entirely attributable to economic uplift.    We rate this  .  CORRECTION: A previous version of this article misspelled Elaine Waxman’s name.
Statement: A serial killer is targeting women in Hot Springs, Ark.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 11, 2021
Topics: crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "This case is an isolated incident involving only one victim," Picavet said.   In its own statement released on April 13, the FBI said "there is a strong possibility the person who did this continues to work and/or live in our community." Searching online for  to support the  that there are more homicide victims we found only vague, unsubstantiated claims. In June 2020, a man was found dead in the park after a shooting , but a suspect was arrested and charged. We rate these posts .
Statement: Says Syrian refugees are not being vetted, and "the FBI is not even being told where they are.
Speaker: pat mccrory
About the speaker: Pat McCrory, a Republican, was governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017. Previously, he served as mayor of Charlotte.
Date: October 11, 2016
Location: north carolina
Topics: immigration;debates;foreign policy;public safety;terrorism
Context: a North Carolina governor's race debate
Fact-check justification: McCrory said Syrian refugees aren’t being vetted and that the FBI doesn’t know where they are. The vetting process has faced criticism, but it does exist –  leading to the rejection of thousands of applicants and, in many cases, taking more than two years for those who are approved. There are also extensive records of where refugees are initially settled. The FBI does not automatically track all of them once they’re settled, but nothing is stopping agents from tracking refugees who make it through the vetting process but later exhibit signs of extremism – and there are recent examples of the FBI doing exactly that. McCrory distorts the reality of the Syrian refugee system, and we rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/7de8d8b9-b87c-4e34-bb1e-d1f3d8813722
Statement: United States of America is twenty-sixth in school performance in the world.
Speaker: jim whelan
About the speaker: State Sen. Jim Whelan is a Democrat from Atlantic County.
Date: January 9, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: education
Context: a speech on the state Senate floor
Fact-check justification: During a debate on the Senate floor, Whelan claimed the "United States of America is twenty-sixth in school performance in the world." Based on the most recent international assessments, the senator’s statistic is on target. After averaging out the mean scores in reading, math and science, the United States ranks 26 out of 75 participating countries or economies. But since those mean scores are subject to margins of error -- which could alter the rankings -- we rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Social media posts suggest a CDC graph shows the COVID-19 vaccine is harmful to children and that California's school vaccine mandate is dangerous.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 10, 2021
Location: california
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Experts say COVID-19 vaccinations are tested rigorously and monitored as they are released to the public. Furthermore, scientific studies of thousands of children have determined that serious adverse events after vaccination are rare and that vaccinations are effective against COVID-19. While the graph is a real representation of reports submitted to VAERS, the social media posts have greatly distorted its meaning and falsely suggested that the COVID-19 vaccines are harmful for children. Therefore, we rate the posts .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.
Statement: According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the IRS would need to hire over 16,000 people ... to audit the American people and impose the new taxes and mandates" of the health care bill.
Speaker: mark kirk
About the speaker: Mark Kirk is a U.S. senator from Illinois, having defeated Democratic State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias for the seat formerly occupied by President Barack Obama in 2010. Kirk was formerly a U.S. congressman from Illinois’ 10th district.
Date: March 21, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;health care;taxes
Context: the House
Fact-check justification: And for this item, we will assume that the Ways and Means' Republicans' methodology is credible, since we were not able to find any expert who argued otherwise. Finally, Kirk is hardly alone in ignoring the caveats to the 16,500 figure -- Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., to just cite one example, said in a March 25, 2010, floor speech that "16,500 new IRS agents are going to be required to be hired because of the health care reform bill," which to us expresses an unwarranted degree of certainty. But in this item, we're focusing on Kirk's statement, and we believe it rates only a .    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 that under City Council Member Randi Shade, Austin had the "highest city debt per person in Texas.
Speaker: better austin today
About the speaker: Better Austin Today Political Action Committee, or BATPAC, founded in 2007, calls itself a progressive coalition for Austin.
Date: June 18, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: city budget;city government
Context: a campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: Our take? Taking into account all debts linked to the city, including revenue-backed debt, Austin didn’t rank first among Texas cities. And by a fairer comparison--focused on debts funded from property taxes--Austin landed way short of tops in Texas. Also, the statement’s laying of responsibility for the debt ranking on a single council member is unsupported. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Donald Trump "will not be profiting" from the G-7 summit meeting to be held at Trump's Doral resort.
Speaker: mick mulvaney
About the speaker: In December 2018, President Donald Trump named Mick Mulvaney as his acting chief of staff. In 2017, Trump nominated Mulvaney to direct the Office of Management and Budget, and he was confirmed shortly after. Before, he served as the new U.S. Congressman for South Carolina's 5th District from 2010-2017. Mulvaney grew up in the Carolinas and went to Georgetown University. He attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later did additional course work at Harvard Business School.
His professional background includes law and real estate.
Date: October 17, 2019
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;income
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Mulvaney said Trump "will not be profiting" from the G-7 summit meeting to be held at Trump’s Doral resort. The acting White House chief of staff says the Miami-area resort will host the gathering "at cost." But the White House did not explain how that would work. Moreover, the summit is a one-of-a-kind event, attracting seven world leaders, hundreds of diplomats, journalists and other guests, and worldwide publicity. Even at cost, it fills the hotel during Florida’s slow season and guests would be doing other spending on the property even if the rooms were rented at break-even prices. Mulvaney’s statement is . We rate this  .
Statement: Says Gov. Chris Christie's decision to close the Elizabeth MVC "saved no money.
Speaker: joseph cryan
About the speaker: Joseph Cryan is a Democratic state Assemblyman representing parts of Union County. He previously served as the Assembly Majority Leader and the chairman of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee.
Date: May 17, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: state budget
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Returning to Cryan’s comment about a lack of savings, let’s review. Cryan said "no money" has been saved. While there is some question about the actual amount, the correspondence indicates there's no question that there have been substantial savings from the reductions in rent and the elimination of 43 jobs. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com
Statement: Just about everyone everywhere is spending more hours on the job, less time with their families, bringing home smaller and smaller paychecks, while they're paying more and more at the gas pump and the grocery stores.
Speaker: ed fitzgerald
About the speaker: Ed FitzGerald is Cuyahoga County's first county executive. He took office in January 2011 when a charter form of county government took affect. Prior to his election as county executive, he was mayor in the city of Lakewood. He also has been a congressional staff member, an FBI special agent, a practicing lawyer and assistant county prosecutor and an elected city councilman.
Date: April 24, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;income;jobs;labor;workers
Context: a campaign speech
Fact-check justification: We did not assign credit to Kasich for his statement in March that Ohioans' wages have risen by more than $10 billion since 2010. But we rated the statement as . We can't rate FitzGerald's linking of Kasich to his statement about people spending more hours on the job and bringing home smaller paychecks. But his statement is accurate, with the point of clarification that "smaller paychecks" are in inflation-adjusted current dollars. Because that additional information is needed, we rate the statement as .
Statement: The daughter of Sen. Coons (D-DE), along with 7 other underaged girls are featured on Hunter's laptop! - Breitbart News
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 24, 2020
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a text post
Fact-check justification: The Facebook posts say, "The daughter of Sen. Coons (D-DE), along with 7 other underaged girls are featured on Hunter's laptop!" The posts are attributed to Breitbart, but the conservative news and opinion site did not publish such an allegation. A U.S. Senate candidate, running against Coons, repeated this  in an interview with Breitbart. The candidate offered no  to back up her  about illicit material on a computer hard drive connected to Hunter Biden. We rate the unproven  .
Statement: No Bridge to Nowhere could occur.
Speaker: charles schumer
About the speaker: Charles Schumer is a Democratic senator from New York and the Senate majority leader.
Date: March 8, 2009
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: It's a matter of opinion. And there are no rules in place today that would prevent a legislator from proposing an earmark that he or she deems worthwhile but that others deem wasteful. So we very well could have more Bridges to Nowhere, which makes Schumer's statement . Update: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that an arm of the Ketchikan to Gravina bridge was named after Rep. Don Young.
Statement: Vice President Biden threatened a foreign country and forced them to fire a prosecutor who was investigating a company," that paid his son Hunter.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: January 29, 2020
Location: florida
Topics: ethics;impeachment;foreign policy
Context: Iowa
Fact-check justification: Scott said, "Vice President Biden threatened a foreign country and forced them to fire a prosecutor who was investigating a company paying his son $83,000 a month." There is no  that Biden’s call for Ukraine to fire the prosecutor general was because of his son’s position with Burisma and an investigation. Western leaders wanted the prosecutor, Shokin, ousted because they considered him ineffective and corrupt, not because he was pursuing sensitive investigations into a company associated with Biden’s son.  We rate this statement .
Statement: This video shows Chuck Grassley demanding Joe Biden's "resignation.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 7, 2022
Location: iowa
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Grassley in the video doesn’t call for Biden’s resignation, he alluded to Biden only when he said the "Biden Justice Department." Grassley discussed the president’s son, Hunter Biden, but not in connection to the 2020 presidential election, as this post suggested. Grassley was criticizing the FBI for not investigating "potential criminal activity. "  Grassley also never said "it is fraud," in the video.   We rate claims that this video shows the senator calling on the president to resign .