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Statement: The reality is, with a $2 trillion-a-year health care budget, we're spending more on health care, nearly 17 percent of our gross domestic product, versus 3.8 percent of GDP on the entire military budget.
Speaker: mike huckabee
About the speaker: Mike Huckabee ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former governor of Arkansas; he also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He left hosting a self-titled television show on Fox News in January 2015.
Date: September 2, 2007
Location: national
Topics: health care
Fact-check justification: The same study shows that if you subtract private sector money from the equation, health care expenses by the federal government drop to 5.5 percent of GDP. Add in state and local government spending and you get to 7.6 percent of GDP. Of course, "we," all of us, make up the private sector. So Huckabee has every right to include the private with public expenses when citing the  cost of U.S. health care in proportion to GDP.
 But comparing that with government-only spending on the military, or anything else, artificially inflates the disparity between the two costs.
Statement: Repealing the sales tax on boats in Rhode Island has spawned 2,000 companies, 7,000 jobs and close to $2 billion a year in sales activity.
Speaker: donald carcieri
About the speaker: Donald Carcieri, a Republican, served as Rhode Island's governor from 2003 to 2010. He is a former CEO of Cookson America.
Date: July 27, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;states;taxes
Context: an interview on Fox News' "The Neil Cavuto Show," about U.S. Sen. John Kerry's boat
Fact-check justification: And again, that's total jobs, not those "spawned" solely by the sales tax repeal. Carcieri got it right by doing his research before spouting statistics on national television, and the studies he cites offer some measurable data. However, it is impossible to know how precise those numbers are and the governor should have offered that caveat. More troublesome, he should never have said the tax repeal "spawned" what amounts to an entire industry. We find this .
Statement: On Foxconn deal, "3,000 jobs cost #WI taxpayers more than $3 billion in tax giveaways. Break it down: more than $1 million in taxpayer dollars per job.
Speaker: melissa sargent
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, was elected to the Assembly in 2012. She served on the Dane County Board of Supervisors from 2010 to 2014. She owns an art reproduction business.
Date: August 2, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;jobs;technology;taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Our rating In a tweet she later took down, Sargent said that on the Foxconn deal, "3,000 jobs cost #WI taxpayers more than $3 billion in tax giveaways. Break it down: more than $1 million in taxpayer dollars per job." The per-job cost could never reach $1 million if only 3,000 jobs are created; the full $3 billion would be paid only if 13,000 jobs are created. An analysis projects the per-job cost at $219,000 per job if 13,000 jobs are created and $587,000 per job if 3,000 jobs are created. We rate Sargent’s statement .
Statement: Says Gloria Steinem once called Kay Bailey Hutchison a "female impersonator.
Speaker: michelle malkin
About the speaker: Malkin is a prominent conservative blogger and pundit
Date: March 7, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: abortion;congress;women
Context: her column
Fact-check justification: Steinem referred to Hutchison as a female impersonator. Malkin’s statement rates .
Statement: There's nothing in the [RhodeMap RI] plan that takes away local government control and local zoning control.
Speaker: kevin flynn
About the speaker: Kevin M. Flynn is the associate director of the Rhode Island Division of Planning.
Date: November 25, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: city government;economy;government regulation;regulation;states
Context: a website story
Fact-check justification: Kevin M. Flynn said nothing in the RhodeMap RI plan "takes away local government control and local zoning control." Technically, there is nothing in the plan’s language that appears to compromise local zoning law or control. But his statement doesn’t acknowledge the strings attached to the HUD grant. In accepting the $1.9 million from HUD to develop the plan, the state agreed to, among other things, expand housing opportunities for underserved populations on the basis of race, ethnicity, or economic status and, thus, is obligated to do so. In fact, HUD has taken legal action against grant recipients such as Westchester County that, in its view, failed to live up to its agreement. It’s rare, but it has happened. For the record, in December, 26 Rhode Island cities and towns were awarded nearly $5.3 million in HUD grants through the Community Development Block Grant program On balance, we rate Flynn’s  is "partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context," our definition of . (Correction: Article XIII of the Rhode Island Constitution spells out home rule for cities and towns. The article number was  in the original version of this item.)
Statement: I've issued a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling.
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: June 15, 2010
Location: national
Topics: energy;oil spill
Context: an address from the Oval Office
Fact-check justification: We think a lot of people probably assumed Obama's statement meant that all oil operations in the Gulf of Mexico were put on a six-month hiatus. That's not the case. The moratorium relates to exploratory oil drilling, not to existing, oil-producing deepwater platforms, which will continue to produce. So Obama's words were technically accurate, though due to the common use of the phrase oil drilling to refer to all oil operations, we think it may have confused some people. And so we rule his statement .
Statement: Says Adam Laxalt said it is "good news" that "a lot of those Hispanic small businesses never reopened" after the pandemic.
Speaker: catherine cortez masto
About the speaker: Catherine Cortez Masto was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2016 in Nevada. She previously served two terms as Nevada's Attorney General.
Date: October 5, 2022
Location: nevada
Topics: jobs;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Cortez Masto’s ad said Laxalt called it "good news" that "a lot of those Hispanic small businesses never reopened" after the pandemic. Pitching to a Spanish-speaking audience, the ad makes it seem as though Laxalt was happy to see Hispanic businesses fail. That wasn’t his point. The ad leaves out that in his stuttered response, Laxalt said it was "good news" that voters would blame Democratic leaders — and no longer blame Republican President Donald Trump — for lost jobs and closed businesses that remained a year into the pandemic. He said it was  for voters to continue to blame Trump with Democrats in charge of state and national governments. He didn’t welcome lost Hispanic jobs. We rate Cortez Masto’s distorted  . RELATED: Catherine Cortez Masto’s PolitiFact file RELATED: Adam Laxalt’s PolitiFact file RELATED: Fact-checking ads in the 2022 campaigns
Statement: Says a voter-adopted constitutional amendment "instructed" a state board headed by Jerry Patterson to put $300 million in investment earnings into a fund supporting public school operations.
Speaker: progress texas
About the speaker: On its website, Progress Texas describes itself as a "nonprofit communications hub that educates the public about politicians, policies and organizations that have a direct impact on the everyday lives of Texans." Its mission, according to the website, is "to provide a strong, credible and enduring progressive voice that will ensure more inclusive, just and sustainable policies for Texas."
Date: September 7, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a newsletter update
Fact-check justification: The newsletter update said a 2011 constitutional amendment approved by Texas voters "instructed" a board headed by Patterson to put $300 million into a fund supporting public school operations. This  distorts aspects of the amendment. First, the word "instructed" is ; the amendment only authorized such transfers. Second, the amendment did not specify that $300 million be dispatched. That’s the maximum annual amount allowed to be transferred. Finally, while lawmakers budgeted the cited $300 million in transfers during 2012-13, they also signed off on a reduction in budgeted school aid if the land office does not make the transfers -- signaling the result was out of their control. This statement has an element of . We rate it .
Statement: France said it would shut down internet services "to control the riots.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 2, 2023
Topics: fake news;technology;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The article did not cite a source for its statement that France decided to shut down internet services. The Associated Press , Snopes and other fact-checkers debunked similar claims. They reported that a purported July 2 news release from the French government announcing internet restrictions was . Two French government agencies tweeted that the press release was  and that the government had not decided to restrict the internet. We rate the  .
Statement: The nuclear deal gave Iran "$150 billion, giving $1.8 billion in cash — in actual cash carried out in barrels and in boxes from airplanes.
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: April 26, 2018
Location: national
Topics: iran;nuclear
Context: an interview on "Fox & Friends"
Fact-check justification: Trump said that the nuclear deal with Iran gave the country $150 billion, including $1.8 billion from the United States in cash. The $150 billion is the highest estimate we've seen, and the one with the least  to support it. The high-end estimate from the U.S. Treasury Department in 2015 was $56 billion, and outside analysts believe the number could be lower. The $1.8 billion is reasonably accurate. The official amount is $1.7 billion. However, there’s no  that barrels and boxes were involved. We rate this  .
Statement: President Joe Biden "has the lowest approval rating of any president ever.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 29, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In October, CNN used the Gallup data to conclude that Biden had the second-lowest approval rating of any president that Gallup had measured at that moment in their presidency, about nine months into their term. Trump had a lower rating — 37%. Looking at the most recent data available from Gallup, that was still .   FiveThirtyEight, which also looks at Biden’s popularity and how he compares with past presidents, reached the same conclusion .    We rate this post .
Statement: The lawyer who brought the case against NationsBank said "publicly that Alex Sink had nothing to do with the case, had nothing to do with the situation and didn't know about the problems.
Speaker: alex sink
About the speaker: Alex Sink is a candidate for Congress in Florida's 13th Congressional District. She served as Florida's Chief Financial Officer from 2007 to 2011. She was the Democratic Party's nominee for governor in 2010, but lost to Rick Scott.
Date: October 25, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;ethics;financial regulation;legal issues
Context: a CNN/St. Petersburg Times debate
Fact-check justification: We think Sink is  quoting the lawyer in the NationsBank case, Jonathan Alpert, accurately. Alpert said Sink wasn't involved in the deceptive selling of more risky involvements through NationsSecurities and didn't know anything about the deceptive practices being employed. The companies NationsBank and NationsSecurities were managed separately. But Sink did know securities were being sold in her banks, and was in a position to voice questions or concerns about the practice if she sensed anything was being handled inappropriately. That's enough of a connection in our minds to knock this  down one notch, and rate it .
Statement: Says the Trump administration has "a scheme to try to take (Oleg Deripaska's) ownership level down from 70 percent to roughly 40, 45" so that the Russian company is no longer subject to sanctions.
Speaker: mark warner
About the speaker: Mark Warner, a Democrat, has represented Virginia in the U.S. Senate since 2009. He serves on the Banking, Budget, Commerce and Intelligence committees. He is the honorary co-chairman of the Forward Together PAC.
Warner gave the keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Warner previously served as governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006. He also ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1996. Before public office, Warner was an early investor in the cell phone business, co-founded the company that became Nextel.
Warner was born in Indianapolis, Ind., and grew up in Illinois and Connecticut. Warner graduated from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He received a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass.
Date: January 13, 2019
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Warner said the Trump administration has "a scheme to try to take (Deripaska’s) ownership level down from 70 percent to roughly 40, 45" so that the Russian company is no longer subject to sanctions. Warner’s description of the Treasury Department’s deal with Deripaska is partially right, but it leaves out important details. The plan also entails corporate restructuring, plus additional reporting and transparency measures. And the sanctions against Deripaska himself would remain in place. Most experts we spoke to said sanctions relief wasn’t a "scheme" so much as it was the Trump administration’s way of ending the disruption it inflicted on the global metals market when it sanctioned Deripaska’s aluminum company Rusal. In other words, it’s more likely a case of clumsiness, rather coziness with Russian oligarchs — as Senate Democrats suggest. We rate this .
Statement: In the first year of the Obama administration, more jobs were created in the private sector than in the eight years of the Bush administration.
Speaker: nancy pelosi
About the speaker: Rep. Nancy Pelosi represents a district in California. She served as speaker of the U.S. House January 2019-2021. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.
Date: May 16, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;history
Context: an interview with Bloomberg television
Fact-check justification: But she would have been  if she’d cited total employment rather than private-sector employment. And she chose her starting and ending dates in a way that was highly favorable to Obama and unfavorable to Bush. Pelosi essentially started counting from the low point for jobs and only counted the upward part of the trendline, while denying Bush the same method. This time, in talking to Bloomberg TV, Pelosi didn’t even get the statistic technically correct. So we rate it .
Statement: Says Rick Scott "cut education by $1.3 billion" in his first year, then "in his second year he decreases funding by $300 million to our state universities.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: November 5, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: education;state budget;stimulus
Context: an interview on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Crist said that Gov. Rick Scott "cut education by $1.3 billion" in his first year and then "in his second year he decreases funding by $300 million to our state universities." There are various ways to add up the total cuts in K-12. Crist uses the $1.3 billion figure that includes the cut in state and state-required local dollars, but the largest chunk was due to the expiration of the stimulus funds. The state also cut $300 million from universities during Scott’s second legislative session. We should note that much of K-12 education funding was restored, though it’s still below pre-recession levels. And the Legislature restored the cut to universities the next year. The bottom line, though, is that Crist chose his words carefully, and those cuts did happen during the years he mentioned. We rate his statement .
Statement: We admit more than 100,000 lifetime migrants from the Middle East each year.
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: June 12, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration;foreign policy
Context: Orlando
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "We admit more than 100,000 lifetime migrants from the Middle East each year." A strict definition of the region produces a number closer to 70,000. But adding in other countries that most Americans would consider to be in the Middle East, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey, brings the number to 100,000 or more. It’s also worth remembering that not all immigrants from these countries are Muslim. All in all, the statement is accurate but needs clarification, so we rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/43e8d534-e493-4d5e-b38a-f156a7c0fc7a
Statement: U.N. calls for decriminalizing sex with minors.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: April 19, 2023
Topics: human rights;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post said, "U.N. calls for decriminalizing sex with minors." The U.N. partnered with the International Commission of Jurists on a report calling for a human rights-based approach to criminal law. It did not call for decriminalizing adults having sex with minors. Experts said the guidance was meant to apply to consensual sex between adolescents of similar ages. We rate the  .
Statement: Say Oscar Pistorius "commits suicide in prison.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 16, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a fake news blog post
Fact-check justification: The details remain murky and initially, Pistorius was found guilty of negligent homicide. But a higher court overturned that ruling and declared him guilty of murder. There were rumors in 2016 that Pistorius attempted suicide in jail, but he and his lawyers denied those accounts. The Centurion Rekord described the item about Pistorius’ death as  news, and we fully agree. We rate this  !
Statement: David Perdue supports Common Core
Speaker: the david perdue files
About the speaker: The David Perdue Files is a website dedicated to revealing facts about him.
Date: April 21, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: a website
Fact-check justification: The website is correct on some level. Perdue did initially support the concept of Common Core, like many other Republicans. But he has made it very clear he has soured on the details and now opposes it. There is a kernel of  here, but just a kernel. We rate the website attack on Perdue as .
Statement: Opposition to having a fully elected Chicago Board of Education is in the "super minority.
Speaker: robert martwick
About the speaker: Illinois Sen. Robert Martwick has represented the state's 10th Senate District since 2019. Prior to that, he served six years as a representative in the Illinois House.
Date: May 10, 2021
Location: illinois
Topics: education;elections
Context: a podcast interview
Fact-check justification: Martwick said opposition to letting voters pick who sits on Chicago’s school board is in the "super minority." For support, he pointed to surveys, referendums and House floor votes all overwhelmingly favoring an elected board. Several older polls Martwick did not mention garnered similar results, as did a vote on a modified version of his plan in the state Senate. A recent House vote on the measure this year also gained majority approval. We rate Martwick’s  .  — 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: Ohio is not meeting its obligation to update voter registrations when voters change their address with the BMV.
Speaker: kathleen clyde
About the speaker: Kathleen Clyde was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in November 2010. Her 68th District includes the majority of Portage County. She currently resides in Kent.
 
Date: January 27, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: elections
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: A spokeswoman said: "When customers change their address by calling in, email or via written forms, they have the option of choosing to have that information sent on to update their voter registration or choosing not to update their voter registration. Currently we don't have our online vehicle registration database, OPLATES, set up that way and are working to add the ‘opt in’ and ‘opt out’ options to that by July 1, 2012." Our conclusions:   Ohio, clearly in some cases, is using address updates to its driver license database to update voter registration addresses. But considering that the state’s rate is less than half the national avearge, and that the option isn’t even available for online transactions, the BMV is falling short of compliance with the nearly 20-year-old Motor Voter Act. On the -O-Meter, we rate Clyde’s statement as .