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Statement: Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit or the national debt.
Speaker: occupy democrats
About the speaker: Occupy Democrats, founded in 2012, is an advocacy group created to counterbalance the Republican tea party, and to "give President Obama and other progressive Democrats a Congress that will work with them to grow the economy, create jobs, promote fairness and fight inequality, and get money out of politics!"
Date: January 12, 2023
Topics: corrections and updates;deficit;social security;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Occupy Democrats said, "Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit or the national debt." Social Security began running deficits in 2010, which means it relies on its reserve funds that are held by the Treasury Department in the form of government bonds. Treasury must borrow money to repay the bonds, which adds to the federal deficit. The statement contains an element of , because when Social Security runs a surplus, it does not contribute to the federal deficit. But by overlooking the past 12 years, when Social Security has run deficits, the statement ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.  We rate it . CORRECTION , Jan. 20, 2023: We updated this story with the correct name of the Economic Policy Institute.
Statement: Says in his 2000 book "I was talking about Osama bin Laden. I said, 'You have to kill him. You have to take him 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: October 27, 2019
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;foreign policy;terrorism
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Trump said that in his 2000 book "I was talking about Osama bin Laden. I said, ‘You have to kill him. You have to take him out.’" Trump inaccurately recounted what he wrote in his own book. The only kernel of  here is that Trump did write about bin Laden in the context of criticizing President Clinton. Trump’s book warned about terrorism, as did others by 2000, but he did not write that bin Laden should be taken out. This statement rates .
Statement: Says "Hillary Clinton filed for divorce In New York courts.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: February 8, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: While the original version of this story came after Clinton’s presidential campaign loss, we can only make an educated guess as to the reason why this  made a comeback. Valentine’s Day, maybe? The statement is no more accurate now than when it was first posted months ago. We rate it ! https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/76e8a822-aa70-4d30-ae64-9bbba512e80e
Statement: Very, very, very few people get a pat-down" when they go through airport security.
Speaker: janet napolitano
About the speaker: Janet Napolitano is the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, appointed by President Obama. Prior to that, she was the governor of Arizona.
Date: May 7, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: homeland security
Context: Atlanta Press Club speech
Fact-check justification: That doesn’t sound like "very, very, very" few people to us. If Napolitano said that "a small percentage of passengers" get patted down each month, she would have been correct. But she talked about "people." In addition, she used the superlative "very" three times, even though the TSA’s own figures show that the numbers of passengers who receive a pat-down can top 1 million in a single month. We rate her statement .
Statement: There is no Plan B" if the transportation referendum is not passed by voters.
Speaker: terry lawler
About the speaker: Terry Lawler, a former state lawmaker, is executive director of the Regional Business Coalition of Metropolitan Atlanta
Date: June 16, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: transportation
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: The projects on a new list could change. It’s unknown at this point by how much. There is a written document that says lawmakers can try again if the July 31 referendum fails. That is a critical factor that must be considered to fully examine Lawler’s statement. Under our rating system, we give him a .
Statement: I've spent 20 years devoted to working on behalf of families who are having a tough time and are seeking out the American dream.
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: February 26, 2008
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: Cleveland, Ohio
Fact-check justification: The other part of Obama's  is that his experience is "on behalf of families who are having a tough time and are seeking out the American dream." We take that to mean his experience is broadly in the field of public service, and that too is an accurate . The bulk of Obama's professional experience is either in elected office or working for a nonprofit, a university or a civil rights law firm. Obama's 20 years of experience are 15 years short of Clinton's, but it's worth noting that Obama is 14 years younger than Clinton. Voters will decide whether the gap between 35 years and 20 years of experience is significant, but we find Obama's statement about his own experience to be .
Statement: Abortion is available at any point of pregnancy and for any reason in Alaska, Colorado, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont.
Speaker: focus on the family
About the speaker: Focus on the Family is an evangelical Christian organization based in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Date: June 28, 2022
Location: colorado
Topics: abortion;new jersey;oregon;government regulation;vermont;ad watch
Context: ads
Fact-check justification: Focus on the Family said in ads that abortion "is available all nine months of pregnancy" in Alaska, Colorado, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont, "even up until the moment before birth and for any reason." Under laws in those six states, abortion is not specifically prohibited at any stage of pregnancy. But late-term abortions are rare and usually for urgent medical reasons. Nationally, less than 1% of abortions are performed at or after 21 weeks of pregnancy, and they are roughly as rare in the states where there is no time prohibition on abortion. Near full term, contrary to what the ads suggest, abortions are not done, experts say. The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it . RELATED: Now that Roe is gone, what happens in the states? RELATED: Fact-checks on abortion RELATED: Fact-checking ads in the 2022 election campaigns
Statement: In 20 years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the president by themselves.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: June 9, 2010
Location: national
Topics: immigration;elections
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: Even if previous rates of growth continued, Muslims would still remain in the single digits even decades from now." The idea that Muslims will be an electoral majority in 20 years "is ," added Douglas Massey, a professor at Princeton University's Office of Population Research. Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for CAIR, agreed, saying that "it sounds very far-fetched to me." We agree. We rate the chain e-mail's  .
Statement: In 2008, Charlie Crist '"applauded the pick of Sarah Palin and said she would do 'a great job.'
Speaker: george lemieux
About the speaker: George LeMieux is a former U.S. Senator from Florida. He was appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist in 2009 to fill the unexpired term of Sen. Mel Martinez and served until January 2011.
Date: August 28, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a Tampa Bay Times guest column
Fact-check justification: LeMieux said that after Crist was passed over by McCain for vice president, "Crist applauded the pick of Sarah Palin and said she would do ‘a great job.’ " Yep, that was the case in 2008. Crist had heaps of praise for her and campaigned for the McCain-Palin ticket. Crist had plenty of motivation: It gave him free national publicity, and if McCain-Palin had won, Crist would have had some powerful buddies. It’s worth noting that Crist started backing away from his previous praise during his hard-fought loss to Rubio in the 2010 Republican primary for senate. In a campaign ad, he accused Rubio, Palin and the tea party of following a road to "extremism." And though the -O-Meter isn’t in the business of making predictions, we think we are on safe ground to say that Crist won’t be praising Palin at the DNC. Still, we found lots of  to support LeMieux’s statement. We rate his  . PolitiFact Florida is partnering with 10 News for the election. See video fact-checks here .
Statement: A Census Bureau worker says he was told to skew information to bring the unemployment rate down "as we headed into an election season.
Speaker: elisabeth hasselbeck
About the speaker: Elisabeth Hasselbeck is currently a host of Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends." She previously was a host on "The View."
Date: November 19, 2013
Topics: census;jobs;punditfact
Context: comments on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends"
Fact-check justification: Hasselbeck said Julius Buckmon was "on one side of the scale" and his fabricated interviews helped push the unemployment rate lower in September 2012. Buckmon did not work for the Census Bureau in 2012 and even if he had, people familiar with the workings inside the bureau doubt it would have made a difference. If he had slanted all of his reports to show a brighter employment picture, he would have likely been found out. If he slanted a smaller number, it would have no statistical impact. We rate the  .
Statement: In September, the Department of Business and Consumer Services enacted a sudden 39% workers' compensation premium assessment by rule with little notice to the public.
Speaker: oregon senate republicans (the leadership fund) 
About the speaker: The Leadership Fund is the campaign arm of Oregon Senate Republicans.
Date: January 20, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: labor;workers
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: For most people unfamiliar with workers’ compensation lingo, they might think the overall rate went up 39 percent. And that’s not correct. We think the statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it . Comment on this item.
Statement: Says "a Republican hasn't won [an election] for a presidency in New Jersey since 1988.
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: August 7, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: elections;states
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Christie said "a Republican hasn't won [an election] for a presidency in New Jersey since 1988." When Bush took on Dukakis in 1988, a majority of New Jersey voters cast a ballot for the Republican candidate, helping send Bush to the White House. But four years later, the tide turned in New Jersey and the state has voted Democratic in every presidential election since. We rate this  . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/cc018ecd-6033-4be2-8a2c-fff8a1cb58ce
Statement: I used to drive a tractor trailer … I only did it for part of a summer.
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: November 30, 2021
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;infrastructure
Context: Minnesota
Fact-check justification: Biden said he used to drive a tractor trailer. There is no record that he did, and his comments in the past suggest that at most, he was given the chance to drive one at some point. His reference to a summer job suggests that he was referring to his time as a bus driver, not a truck driver. We rate this  .
Statement: The Export-Import Bank "doesn't cost taxpayers anything.
Speaker: vicky hartzler
About the speaker: Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., represents Missouri's fourth district. She was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1994.
Date: June 24, 2014
Location: national
Topics: congress;corporations;deficit;economy;federal budget;financial regulation;foreign policy;taxes
Context: a "Roll Call" interview
Fact-check justification: Hartzler said the Export-Import Bank "doesn’t cost taxpayers anything." It’s  that in recent years, the bank has actually made a net profit on its loans and turned in money to the U.S. Treasury. But in the past, the bank has had years of losses and actually cost taxpayers money. Some economists think that could easily happen again, even if it doesn’t seem like an immediate danger. We rate this  .
Statement: Our minority graduation rate went from levels below Milwaukee and Madison, to above 80%" when I was Beloit school superintendent.
Speaker: lowell holtz
About the speaker: Lowell Holtz was a candidate in the spring 2017 primary for the nonpartisan position of State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He's a former principal and school superintendent in multiple Wisconsin school districts.
Date: March 18, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education
Context: a campaign blog post
Fact-check justification: That muddies the water on claiming credit. Our rating: Holtz says that when he ran the Beloit school district, "Our minority graduation rate went from levels below Milwaukee and Madison, to above 80%." Rates rose significantly and topped 80 percent both for black students and Hispanic students. But the picture upon his arrival was not quite as bleak as Holtz claimed. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Tennessee's higher education funding model "is 100 percent outcomes-based" and "we are already seeing this model changing the way our postsecondary institutions do business.
Speaker: bill haslam
About the speaker: Bill Haslam is the former mayor of Knoxville and is now the governor of Tennessee.
Date: October 18, 2012
Location: tennessee
Topics: education;state budget
Context: an article for Time magazine
Fact-check justification: So, funding is outcomes based and the institutions are changing the way they operate, by focusing more resources on students. We rate this  .
Statement: U.S. farmers are receiving $16 billion "out of the tariffs that we've gotten from China.
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: July 12, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: china;trade
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Trump said $16 billion in farm aid is being funded "out of the tariffs that we’ve gotten from China." Tariffs are paid into the U.S. Treasury, and the Treasury funds the farm aid. But there is no specific earmark or conduit connecting the two. More significantly, Trump’s  simply does not reflect how tariffs work. The tariffs imposed by Trump have been paid almost entirely by U.S. importers, who pass much of that on to consumers through price increases. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: Romney refused to pardon "a decorated soldier" returning from Iraq who had been charged with a crime involving a BB gun when he was 13.
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: December 19, 2007
Location: national
Topics: crime
Context: an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe
Fact-check justification: "And everywhere I've gone and asked people for a show of hands, everybody agrees with me." Romney refused all pardon requests in his four years as governor. "I didn't pardon anybody as governor because I didn't want to overturn a jury," he said during a June 2007 debate. When he was asked about his policy in December 2007, Romney replied "We looked at the cases one by one and I did not want to provide commutations to people who had weapons violations that were going to be asking to use weapons in their new capacity." He told reporters that the only reasons he would have issued a pardon or commutation would have been if he found  that proved a wrongful conviction, prosecutorial misconduct or errors in the judicial process.
Statement: 5.7 million -- that's how many illegal immigrants might have voted" in 2008.
Speaker: ainsley earhardt
About the speaker: Ainsley Earhardt is a co-host of Fox News Channel's (FNC) Fox & Friends (weekdays 6-9AM/ET) alongside Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade. She joined the network in 2007.
Date: June 20, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;elections
Context: the "Fox and Friends" show
Fact-check justification: Just Facts’ numbers came from a study by Old Dominion University researchers. That study was based on a survey which showed that 39 people out 32,800 claimed to be noncitizens who had voted.  Just Facts used data from the study and Census estimates on the noncitizen population to come up with a national figure of noncitizen voters. But other researchers and political scientists have said the small number is not a reliable source of data on noncitizen voters nationwide. We rate this  . '
Statement: The Trump family was disallowed from operating any charity in the State of New York because they stole from a kids cancer charity.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 8, 2019
Topics: corrections and updates;legal issues;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The lawsuit relates to the Donald J. Trump Foundation, not to a kids cancer charity. The lawsuit alleges that Trump used charitable assets to pay off legal obligations of entities he controlled, to promote his hotels, to buy personal items, and to support his presidential election campaign. Trump’s son, Eric, led a foundation that raised money for kids with cancer, and that foundation has come under scrutiny over its own handling of funds. But the lawsuit seeking to ban the Trumps from participating in charities isn’t pegged to Eric Trump’s foundation. We rate the post .
Statement: Thunderous crowd at Philadelphia Phillies game "literally registering on the Penn State University Brandywine seismograph station.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: November 1, 2022
Topics: sports
Context: viral tweet
Fact-check justification: That’s roughly 20 miles from Citizens Bank Park.   Another expert said that distance is too far to be able to register activity. "No stadium, no matter how loud it is, is going to generate enough seismic waves that it’s going to transmit 20 miles," Laura Guertin, a Penn State earth sciences professor, told The Philadelphia Inquirer.   Furthermore, Tammie Souza, a meteorologist for Philadelphia's CBS television affiliate, tweeted that the original tweet’s image corresponded with a magnitude 5.1 earthquake recorded Oct. 25 in San Francisco.   We rate the  that the crowd at a Philadelphia Phillies World Series game "literally registered" on a seismograph !
Statement: Classified documents from Ukraine "confirm without a shadow of a doubt" that the Ukraine government was "covertly preparing an offensive operation against Donbas, scheduled for March 2022.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: March 9, 2022
Location: national
Topics: military;ukraine;russia
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Russian officials shared a Ukrainian document on Twitter with claims that it showed secret, classified orders for a military offensive on the Donbas region in southeastern Ukraine.  This is . There is no proof that the document is classified, and there are no direct statements in it about an attack on the Donbas. The document makes references to a training camp on the opposite side of the country.  We rate claims about a document showing a planned military offensive in the Donbas .
Statement: Canada prohibits all vaxxed pilots from flying.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 11, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The site now says, "COVID-19 vaccines that have been approved by Health Canada (Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Janssen (Johnson & Johnson)) are considered compatible with Transport Canada Aviation Medical Certification." The site still says the department doesn’t ground pilots who wish to take those vaccines.   The earlier wording on the site about medical trials was in response to pilots asking if they could take part in vaccine trials Health Canada had organized before some vaccines were approved for general use in the country, a spokesperson for Transport Canada told AFP .   "Now that Health Canada has approved the vaccines, the comment regarding medical trials is less relevant and we have elected to remove that statement," the spokesperson said to AFP. We rate claims that pilots who are vaccinated against COVID-19 can’t fly .