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Statement: Says U.S. Senate opponent Tammy Baldwin supported a federal budget "that spent trillions -- not billions, trillions -- more money than the Obama budget.
Speaker: tommy thompson
About the speaker: Tommy Thompson, a Republican, was a 2012 candidate for the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin. He served as governor of Wisconsin from 1987 until 2001, when he left office to become President George W. Bush's secretary of health and human services. He previously spent 20 years in the Wisconsin Assembly. Thompson briefly ran for president, withdrawing in 2007.
Date: October 27, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: deficit;federal budget;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Indeed, The Economist magazine, among others , pointed out the Progressive Caucus budget would have reduced federal deficits more than both the Obama and Ryan budgets -- primarily because of its higher taxes and cuts in defense spending. Our rating Thompson claimed Baldwin supported the Progressive Caucus budget, which he said spent "trillions more" than a budget from Obama. Baldwin did back the proposal, which would have raised taxes by trillions more than the president. But the caucus plan would have actually spent less money than the Obama plan. We rate Thompson’s statement .
Statement: (U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston) voted to fund (Obamacare).
Speaker: paul broun
About the speaker: U.S. House Rep. Paul Broun, a Republican, is from Athens. He represents Georgia's 10th congressional district.
Date: December 5, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: health care
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Broun is using that to base his argument since the legislation includes spending for the health care law. However, it was a piece of a much larger spending package that includes defense spending and disaster recovery. Using that logic, Kingston could argue that Broun voted against defense spending. Broun’s  contains an element of accuracy, but it gives people a  perception of Kingston’s position on Obamacare. We rate it .
Statement: The movie "I am Legend" was based in the year 2021 and people turned into zombies "because of the wrong vaccine.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 20, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Neville spends his time trying to find other humans, as well as a cure.   In the movie, actor Emma Thompson plays Dr. Alice Krippin, a scientist who created a genetically-engineered measles virus to cure cancer. In the opening scene , Krippin says that over 10,000 cancer patients were successfully cured. But the experiment backfires when it's later discovered that the virus is lethal.   This post is .
Statement: Torture is illegal by our laws. It's illegal by international laws.
Speaker: ron paul
About the speaker: Ron Paul, a Texas physician, served two stints in the U.S. House. He also was the Libertarian Party nominee for president in 1988 before later seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and 2012. He didn't seek re-election to the House in 2012.
Date: November 12, 2011
Location: national
Topics: human rights;legal issues;foreign policy
Context: Spartanburg, S.C
Fact-check justification: Paul's comment came immediately after a discussion of waterboarding, and we’ll note that there is not a consensus that waterboarding constitutes torture. That said, Paul’s statement is 100 percent correct: There is no question that torture is barred in both U.S. and international law. We rate Paul’s statement .
Statement: A political map circulated by Sarah Palin's PAC incited Rep. Gabby Giffords' shooting
Speaker: new york times editorial board
About the speaker: The New York Times editorial board is made up of 16 journalists who operate outside of the newsroom. The board's editorials represent "the voice of the board, its editor and the publisher." Learn more here.
Date: June 14, 2017
Topics: crime;punditfact
Context: a New York Times editorial
Fact-check justification: The New York Times editorial board said a political map circulated by Palin’s PAC incited Rep. Gabby Giffords’ shooting. We were unable to find  Loughner was even aware of the maps, and a friend told an interviewer Loughner did not closely watch the news.   The New York Times corrected its story some 13 hours after publication to say no such link has been established between political incitement and the 2011 shooting of Giffords. At PolitiFact, our rulings are based on when a statement was made. This  rates .
Statement: Says one year ago, "no cities in the South had guaranteed paid sick days.
Speaker: greg casar
About the speaker: Gregorio "Greg" Casar was initially elected to the Austin City Council in 2014. He represents the city's District 4.
Date: April 24, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: city government
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Advocates agreed with Casar, saying they don’t consider Maryland and Washington, D.C., to be situated in the South. The Census Bureau, however, classifies them both as in the South. Given that opinions vary so greatly about which areas are in the South, we looked to the Census Bureau’s divisions in evaluating the truthfulness of this . Those boundaries may not account for cultural or political regionality, but they are the most formal regional descriptions that exist. We rate this  .
Statement: There is a very identifiable Somali community" back home in Delaware.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: February 17, 2015
Location: national
Topics: race and ethnicity;population;terrorism
Context: remarks at a White House summit
Fact-check justification: Biden said "there is a very identifiable Somali community" back home in Delaware. If so, it's minuscule: The Census Bureau estimates that there’s only 15 Somali people living in Delaware. Biden’s statement is  and . !
Statement: The average 401(k) in America of a person who's 60 years old is under $100,000.
Speaker: gina raimondo
About the speaker: Gina Raimondo served a four-year term as Rhode Island's general treasurer beginning in Jan. 4, 2011 before being elected governor in 2014. She cofounded and served as a general partner of Point Judith Capital. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and a Rhodes Scholar. She is married with two children.
Date: July 10, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;labor;retirement
Context: an appearance on 10 News Conference
Fact-check justification: Give Raimondo points for not overstating the problem. But all the  we could find involving that age group suggests that the average account holder has saved about $60,000 or less in their 401(k)s, which is the plan the treasurer cited. For that reason, we believe her statement is "accurate but needs clarification or additional information," the definition of  . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Says Will Hurd said a border-long U.S.-Mexico wall "absolutely makes sense.
Speaker: pete gallego
About the speaker: Pete Gallego, initially elected to the Texas House in 1990, won election to the U.S. House in November 2012. He lost his re-election bid in 2014. In July 2018, he ran in a special election to represent Texas Senate District 19.
Date: October 4, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a TV ad pointed out to PolitiFact Texas
Fact-check justification: In an ad, Gallego accuses Will Hurd of declaring that a border-long U.S.-Mexico wall "absolutely makes sense." In fact, Hurd has twice spurned Trump’s idea. Still, he told MSNBC a wall makes sense in heavily populated places. We rate Gallego’s  .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/7af2c8cf-d35c-4481-9a77-e47dd5d73bb2
Statement: Said President Barack Obama "said he was going to stop (signature strikes).
Speaker: richard clarke
About the speaker: Richard Clarke is an expert in national security and counterterrorism. He is chairman & CEO of Good Harbor, a security consulting company, and an on-air consultant for ABC News. He served in the government for about 30 years, at both the Pentagon and the White House.
Date: April 26, 2015
Topics: afghanistan;terrorism;punditfact
Context: a panel on ABC "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Clarke said, "President Obama said he was going to stop (signature strikes)." As far as we can tell, Obama has never said himself that he would stop signature drone strikes, which killed two western civilian hostages. An unnamed administration official implied that signature strikes would eventually be phased out, though without any details. In any case, the drone program in Pakistan, which killed the hostages, was generally exempt from these rules. Clarke’s  suggests that Obama did something he said he wouldn’t do anymore, but that isn’t the case. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says "Kurt Russell supports Trump" by wearing a Trump T-shirt.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 6, 2018
Location: national
Topics: elections;fake news
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: An altered photo attempts to depict Russell and Hawn as Trump supporters, by adding "Trump 2016," American flags and more to their shirts. An image search quickly shows those aren’t the original outfits the couple was wearing. We rate this  !
Statement: Kyle Rittenhouse's mother "drove him across state lines and dropped him off in the middle of a riot armed with an assault rifle" in Kenosha.
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: November 13, 2021
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;legal issues;facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a viral image
Fact-check justification: A viral image claimed that Rittenhouse’s mother "drove him across state lines and dropped him off in the middle of a riot armed with an assault rifle" in Kenosha.  There is no  that Rittenhouse’s mother took him to Kenosha. The  is that Rittenhouse went on his own from his Illinois home to Kenosha, and that he retrieved the rifle he used in the shootings, which had been purchased by his friend, from the Kenosha home of the friend’s stepfather.   We rate the statement .
Statement: Dr. Anthony Fauci has not spoken or appeared publicly for several weeks.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 6, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: He appeared at a March 2 White House press briefing .   On March 4 he spoke to Gray Television’s Washington news bureau.   Fauci is quoted in a March 5 Telegraph story about tuberculosis in Ukraine. He gave an interview to a Florida NBC news affiliate on March 6. Claims that Fauci stopped appearing or speaking in public are rated .
Statement: The Recovery Act saved 60,000 jobs among law enforcement officials, firefighters in the state of Florida, plus another 20,000 educators.
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: October 24, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: jobs;stimulus
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Either way, it’s simply  to attribute every non-education job or worker to law enforcement and firefighting. So how does the -O-Meter rule? Crist absolutely mangled the  about "60,000 jobs." He had a much better grasp on "20,000 educators." That makes him only a quarter right, so we rule his statement .
Statement: Mr. Warren compared same-sex couples to incest.
Speaker: barney frank
About the speaker: Barney Frank has been in Congress since 1981, and was formerly the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. Previously he was a Massachusetts state representative and an assistant to the mayor of Boston. He has also taught at several Boston-area universities.
Date: December 21, 2008
Location: national
Topics: lgbtq;religion
Context: TV interview
Fact-check justification: But, he said, "giving that kind of mark of approval and honor to someone who has frankly spoken in ways that I and many others have found personally very offensive, I thought that was a  for the president-elect to do." You can argue the appropriateness of Obama's choice, and you can argue the appropriateness of Warren citing examples of incest in the context of explaining his opposition to gay marriage, but Frank distorts Warren's words when he says Warren "compared same-sex couples to incest." He didn't. He just cited them as types of relationships that should not be eligible for marriage. We rule his comment .
Statement: It's factually correct to say" that Jennifer Brunner inherited at least 18 lawsuits when she came into the office that were a result of Ken Blackwell's "mismanagement of the 2004 election.
Speaker: maryellen o'shaughnessy
About the speaker: Maryellen O'Shaughnessy is a Democratic candidate for Ohio secretary of state. She presently is the clerk of courts in Franklin County.
Date: August 16, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: elections
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: O’Shaughnessy clearly jumped to an  conclusion about Blackwell’s job performance in the radio interview. Her sources of information, two newspaper articles from 2007, do not support the meat of her  – that Blackwell’s mismanagement of the 2004 election led to at least 18 lawsuits that landed in Brunner’s lap. Brunner’s records show that’s not . We rate the statement . Comment on this item .
Statement: Says Melania Trump's dress at Mount Rushmore speech was designed from "drawings of several young victims of sex trafficking.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 5, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "Alexander McQueen gave Paper a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this dress," the article said. "The students' dancing girl sketches were done on long white sheets during a life-drawing class led by fashion illustrator Julie Verhoeven at the brand's flagship store in London." The school itself also published an article about its collaboration. There is no  the dress was designed by sex trafficking victims. We rate the statement .
Statement: New Hampshire is currently the only state in the nation that does not have a full-service veterans hospital or equivalent access.
Speaker: carol shea-porter
About the speaker: Carol Shea-Porter is serving her third term in the U.S. House of Representatives in New Hampshire's First District. She defeated Republican Frank Guinta who unseated her during the 2010 election. She lives in Rochester and received a Master’s degree in public administration, University of New Hampshire. She's married to her husband Gene, and they have two adult children.     
Date: January 16, 2013
Location: new hampshire
Topics: veterans
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Shea-Porter wasn’t completely right to say New Hampshire is the only state without a "full-service" veterans hospital.The VA doesn’t use the definition "full service." Instead it uses the definition of a medical center, and Alaska doesn’t have one either, even though it does offer many needed medical services to veterans on base. As for "equivalent access," most New Hampshire veterans can access medical centers that will provide the services they need through contracts with non-VA, in-state hospitals, but in some cases, veterans in need of specialized services are sent to Boston. Even when New Hampshire veterans are sent out of state, they don’t have to travel as far as some veterans in larger states, like Texas. Shea Porter’s statement leaves out some important details. We give her a .
Statement: Biden admin negotiates deal to give WHO authority over US pandemic policies.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: February 19, 2023
Topics: corrections and updates;public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: Instagram posts
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claimed that Biden is negotiating a deal to give the WHO authority over U.S. pandemic responses. A plain reading of the draft shows that upholding nations’ sovereignty is a guiding principle of the pandemic accord.  The goal is to help prevent and improve the global response to a future pandemic, learning from mistakes during COVID-19 and ensuring equitable access to vaccines, information and health care. We rate claims that Biden wants to cede U.S. pandemic authority to the WHO . CORRECTION, Feb. 22, 2023 : Lawrence Gostin is director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. An earlier version of this fact-check misspelled his name.
Statement: Says that in the 1985 election former Gov. Tom Kean had "the largest winning margin for a gubernatorial candidate in Jersey history.
Speaker: raymond bateman
About the speaker: Raymond Bateman, a Republican, served in the New Jersey Assembly from 1958 to 1968, and then in the State Senate until 1978. Bateman ran for governor in 1977, but lost to Gov. Brendan Byrne.
Date: November 23, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: elections;states
Context: a column
Fact-check justification: Bateman said that in the 1985 general election Kean had "the largest winning margin for a gubernatorial candidate in Jersey history." Kean trounced his opponent that year. The former Republican governor won more than 1.37 million votes, compared with the roughly 578,000 ballots cast for his Democratic rival. That means Kean won by more than 790,000 votes. That’s the largest margin of victory for a gubernatorial election in New Jersey’s history. We rate this statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Maggie Hassan "missed nearly every university system board meeting.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: September 8, 2016
Location: new hampshire
Topics: education;voting record
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: The National Republican Senatorial Committee says Maggie Hassan "missed nearly every university system board meeting." The governor is a sitting member of the University System of New Hampshire’s board of trustees, which gives her the power to make motions and vote. Hassan missed all but one meeting during her tenure as governor, and even the meeting she participated in came via phone call. That said, Hassan’s behavior is not out of place -- previous governors’ attendance has been similarly sparse, producing little expectation that the state’s chief executive will attend the meetings as a rule. The statement is accurate but needs clarification, so we rate the  .
Statement: If you're earning under $100,000 a year and you commute to New York every day you pay more to the Port Authority in tolls than you pay to the state of New Jersey in income tax.
Speaker: john wisniewski
About the speaker: John Wisniewski is a Democratic state Assemblyman representing a part of Middlesex County. Wisniewski also is chairman of the state Democratic Party.
Date: April 13, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: income;transportation;taxes
Context: a video press release
Fact-check justification: "If you're earning under $100,000 a year and you commute to New York every day you pay more to the Port Authority in tolls than you pay to the state of New Jersey in income tax," Wisniewski said. If New Jersey residents earn all their income from wages in New York, they would owe New Jersey nothing because a credit offsets their tax liability. They’d still pay income taxes to New York, but Wisniewski specifically said taxes paid to New Jersey. We rate this  . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says she is "saving ratepayers $6 million/year.
Speaker: amanda fritz
About the speaker: Amanda Fritz is a Portland city commissioner.
Date: April 19, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: city budget;city government;water
Context: campaign material
Fact-check justification: We give her credit for steering us to a less expensive option in 2009 and saving us money from 2010 through June 2012. But it stops there. Fritz cannot continue to  credit for saving ratepayers money on something that they’re not buying. The statement is . We rate the  .
Statement: Says former Sen. Harry Reid "got thrown out.
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: February 25, 2019
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said Reid "got thrown out." However, Reid declined on his own to run for another term, at a time when his health — in his mid-seventies — had become a concern. Reid ended up retiring on schedule in January 2017, after completing his term in the Senate and his tenure as Democratic leader. We rate the statement .
Statement: Property taxes had increased 70 percent in the previous 10 years.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: February 26, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: a budget speech to the state Legislature
Fact-check justification: Christie said during his budget address that "property taxes had increased 70 percent in the previous 10 years" to him becoming governor. Looking at the numbers, the average property tax bill in the 10 years before Christie took office climbed more than 70 percent, from about $4,240 to about $7,280. But the increase drops to more like 50 percent when property tax rebates are factored into the equation. Still, the overall point here is that property taxes jumped significantly in the decade before he became governor. To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .