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Statement: Says Sen. Rob Portman said, "It would be irresponsible not to cut Medicare.
Speaker: ted strickland
About the speaker: Ted Strickland was governor of Ohio from 2007 through 2010. He lost his bid for re-election in 2010 to Republican John Kasich.
Date: October 14, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: medicare
Context: a Ohio senatorial candidate debate
Fact-check justification: Strickland said Portman went on television and said "it would be irresponsible not to cut Medicare. Those are his words." Those were not Portman's exact words on Cavuto's show. Portman said it would be irresponsible of any fellow senators to argue that Medicare would be off the table when discussing cutting entitlements. Strickland made it sound as if Portman was singling out Medicare by itself. Strickland's statement is partially accurate but imprecise, so we it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/439c351d-8c4c-468f-95c4-6399df46f007
Statement: If you like your private plan, you can keep it.
Speaker: pete buttigieg
About the speaker: Pete Buttigieg is the Transportation secretary under President Joe Biden. Buttigieg was elected mayor of South Bend, Ind., in 2011 and was re-elected in 2015. He decided not to seek re-election and his term ended in January 2020. From 2009 to 2017, he served in the U.S. Navy Reserve and was a lieutenant. He received a bachelor’s degree in history and literature from Harvard College and a first-class honors bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Pembroke College as a Rhodes Scholar. He ran for president in the 2020 Democratic primaries.
Date: February 21, 2020
Topics: health check
Context: a video ad released by the Pete Buttigieg for President campaign
Fact-check justification: In a new campaign ad, Buttigieg claims that under his proposal to overhaul the health care system, "if you like your private plan, you can keep it." This may be  for some Americans who have private coverage, but it is not  for all. It ignores the inherent instability of the private insurance markets — in which plans are canceled or changed all the time, people often don’t get to pick which private plan is even available to them, and government intervention would likely exacerbate that volatility. Introducing a public option, as Buttigieg intends to do, could create more incentives for employers to drop private coverage and switch to the public Medicare plan — and, in some cases, for private carriers to exit the individual marketplace. The fact that it would be less disruptive than Medicare for All doesn’t change this. Buttigieg’s  has some  to it, but leaves out key facts and context. We rate it .
Statement: We're pretty much at the 50 percent mark" on deportations of MS-13 gang members.
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 28, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security;crime
Context: an immigration roundtable discussion
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "We're pretty much at the 50 percent mark" on deportations of MS-13 gang members. Trump’s Justice Department has said there’s an estimated 10,000 MS-13 gang members in the United States.  The latest available data from ICE shows 2,798 gang members have been removed in fiscal year 2017. But that includes members of all gangs, not just MS-13. Even if all were MS-13, that would not be half of the estimated 10,000 MS-13 gang members in the country. And fiscal year 2017 includes more than three months that Obama was in office. Trump’s statement is not accurate. We rate it .
Statement: New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposes to "ban chocolate milk.
Speaker: elise stefanik
About the speaker: Elise Stefanik is a Republican member of Congress representing New York's 21st Congressional District. She was first elected in 2014.
Date: February 3, 2023
Location: new york
Topics: agriculture;corrections and updates;education;food;public health
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: However, he said in a letter to lawmakers that he is not making such a determination "in the interim." We rate the statement . CORRECTION, March 9, 2023 : This version has been updated to correct New York's ranking in milk production. It is fourth.
Statement: Coca-Cola made cans that say "Try to be less white.
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: June 10, 2021
Topics: race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) "The mock Coca-Cola can appearing in some social media feeds was not created, distributed or authorized by the Coca-Cola company," the company said in a statement sent to PolitiFact.   We couldn’t find the original image of this can — with or without "try to be less white" appearing on it — but in February Snopes looked into a different picture of a can that also said "try to be less white. "  That original photo is available on Shutterstock.com , and "try to be less white" doesn’t appear on the can.   We rate this  .
Statement: Keystone XL allows "Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else.
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: November 14, 2014
Location: national
Topics: energy;gas prices
Context: Burma
Fact-check justification: Obama said, Keystone XL allows "Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else." The general consensus among experts, as well as the State Department, is that American refineries would be the primary buyers of crude oil transported through the Keystone XL pipeline, by a vast margin. Some Keystone XL critics have a point that American refineries would likely export some of the products that they make with crude oil transported by the pipeline. The State Department says, however, that product exports are already increasing, and that trend would likely continue independent of a new pipeline. Additionally, American refineries tend to keep more products in the country than they export. We rate Obama’s  .
Statement: Last year we lost $500 billion on trade with 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: March 23, 2018
Location: national
Topics: china;trade
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "Last year we lost $500 billion on trade with China." In 2017, the value of Chinese goods imported to the United States exceeded American goods exports to China by roughly $375 billion. Over that same period, the United States actually ran a $38.5 billion surplus on services trade with China. Overall, in terms of both goods and services, the United States trade deficit with China in 2017 was around $336 billion — meaning Trump was off by roughly $164 billion. We rate this .
Statement: The flu killed 80,000 people in the U.S. last year
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 18, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post said that "flu killed 80k people in the U.S. last year."  Flu deaths are hard to tally. But we know that in September 2018, the CDC announced a preliminary estimate that flu deaths totaled 80,000. Later, the CDC updated its estimate to a lower number: 61,099 deaths. The Facebook post said "last year" which we think would refer to the 2018-19 season. The CDC’s preliminary estimate is about 34,157 deaths. We rate this  .
Statement: Photo shows "the oldest man in the history of mankind" recorded by Guinness World Records.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 18, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The story — and the site — appear to have since been deleted, but we’ve previously fact-checked other far-fetched claims that started there, including that a meth-addled babysitter ate the infant in her care . Snopes looked into the  in 2014, when Murasi was supposedly 179 years old. If that was , he’d be almost 190 years old by now, not the 181 years this Instagram post claims.   But it’s not .   We rate this  .
Statement: Says he "fights for everyone with a preexisting condition.
Speaker: matthew rosendale
About the speaker: Matthew Rosendale is seeking the Republican nomination in Montana’s 2018 U.S. Senate race. He is currently Montana's state auditor.
Date: September 22, 2020
Topics: health care;health check
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: A campaign ad says that Rosendale "fights for everyone with a preexisting condition." While it is  that health insurance premiums have dropped during Rosendale’s tenure as state auditor, the choice to establish Montana’s reinsurance program ultimately fell to decision-makers in the state’s legislature and the governor’s office. Since his ad’s  simply states that he "fights" for people with preexisting conditions, his testimony in support of that program and role in securing the state waiver do seem to fit the bill. In the long-term, however, Rosendale’s positions begin to run counter to the . His support for short-term, limited-duration plans poses a considerable threat to keeping health insurance affordable for all, and absent a solid plan from Congress to ensure that state reinsurance programs survive, his stated goal of repealing the ACA would actually serve to unravel the very protection he’s built his case on. We rate this statement as .
Statement: Canada has only "had 11 school shooting deaths … in history.
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: February 20, 2023
Topics: education;facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The posts  Canada has had only 11 school shooting deaths in history. Under the narrowest interpretation of a school shooting victim — on campus, not considered a domestic violence incident and not including suspects who died by suicide after the attack — that appears to be correct.  It leaves out important details: About two dozen other people have been killed in school shootings on college and university campuses. Plus, at least four other victims connected to shootings on primary and secondary school campuses aren’t counted here.  We rate this  . PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: Research shows the employer mandate in the House health reform bill would "place millions 'at substantial risk of unemployment' — with minority workers losing their jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts.
Speaker: house republican conference
About the speaker: House Republicans are represented by the House Republican Conference.
Date: October 29, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care;workers;taxes
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: We contacted Baicker, who also added the following note of clarification: "Our estimates were done years ago and were meant to model a stylized mandate policy, not any of the actual policies under consideration at the moment.   The effect on employment will be driven by a lot of the details, such as which workers are included based on number of hours worked and which firms are included based on firm size." So the House Republican Conference takes a study that looked at a general policy, not the details of the current House bill. Additionally, the exemption for small employers would reduce the number of workers who would be at risk for losing their jobs. So we rate this statement .
Statement: Says Donald Trump wants to deport "our Dreamers.
Speaker: priorities usa action
About the speaker: Priorities USA Action is a PAC that is supportive of President Barack Obama.
Date: September 28, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: A Priorities USA Action ad said, "Trump wants to deport millions, even our Dreamers." Trump has made clear he would deport millions. More recently in the campaign, Trump said he would set priorities, starting with at least 2 million "criminal aliens." He has given mixed messages on the timeline of deportations for people who don’t pose safety threats. Trump has also said he would terminate Obama administration programs that defer deportation for undocumented people who arrived in the United States as children. If that happens, Dreamers may be subject to deportation. In interviews, Trump has been slightly more sympathetic to this group, calling their situation "tough." At the same time, he has consistently said all immigrants here illegally will have to go, but "terrific" ones could have their return expedited. We rate the ad’s statement .
Statement: Under a new law regulating abortions, "Even if you're raped, if you don't report it in the first 30 days, the Republicans will force you to have an ultrasound.
Speaker: peter barca
About the speaker:  
Peter Barca, a Kenosha native and Democrat, has served two stints in the state Assembly. He was first elected in 1984 before resigning after winning a U.S. House seat in 1993. He served one term in Congress, losing re-election to Mark Neumann. Barca served in various governmental and private-sector posts before winning election to the Assembly in 2008. He was elected Minority Leader of the Assembly Democrats in 2011.
 
Date: August 7, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: abortion;health care;women
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: "They need to report sexual assaults," Lazich, R-New Berlin, told us. Our rating Barca said that a new law passed by Republicans regulating abortion deals with sexual assault victims this way: "Even if you're raped, if you don't report it in the first 30 days, the Republicans will force you to have to have an ultrasound." The law does require an ultrasound when such victims do not report the assault to law enforcers, but there is no 30-day deadline for doing so. Barca’s  is partially accurate but misses on an important detail that muddles his message. We rate his  .
Statement: California, New York and Massachusetts, they represent about 20 percent of the population, they get close to 36 percent of Obamacare funding. It's just simply inequitable.
Speaker: ron johnson
About the speaker: Ron Johnson is a Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin. A businessman and accountant, Johnson defeated Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in the 2010 election. He is seeking re-election in 2016.
Date: September 25, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;health care;medicaid;public health
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Johnson says: "California, New York and Massachusetts, they represent about 20 percent of the population, they get close to 36 percent of Obamacare funding. It's just simply inequitable." He’s more or less correct on the numbers. But the main reason is that those three were among states that -- unlike Wisconsin and some others -- opted through Obamacare to expand Medicaid and take the additional federal funding that came with it. For a statement that contains only an element of , our rating is .
Statement: Obama says Clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between al-Qaida and the Iraqi government.
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: March 11, 2008
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: an interview on MSNBC's "Hardball."
Fact-check justification: I thought it made sense to put inspectors back in. As you recall, Saddam had driven out the U.N. inspectors in 1998 and the situation in Iraq was opaque, hard to determine, and I thought that it made sense to put inspectors back in." She put the blame on the Bush administration. "Now, obviously, if I had known then what I know now about what the president would do with the authority that was given him, I would not have voted the way that I did." Still, Obama has accurately described her statement, so we find his  .
Statement: Says "Barack Obama and his team" are "socialists in every respect of the word.
Speaker: mark neumann
About the speaker: Mark Neumann is a developer and home builder from Nashotah. He was a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Wisconsin in 2012. He ran for governor in 2010 and formerly represented southern Wisconsin in Congress.
Date: June 20, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;health care;government regulation;religion
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: (In 2010, we chose the Republican  that the law was a ‘government takeover’ as our Lie of the Year .)" When we asked for a response to Neumann's , Obama Wisconsin campaign spokeswoman Gillian Morris simply cited the two  items. Our rating We share our colleagues' view that while Obama's policies may have expanded government, they don't justify this " hyperbole." Words matter, and Neumann’s statement takes the hyperbole even further, branding not only Obama but also his entire team as socialists. Neumann’s statement is  and  -- our definition of .
Statement: Wisconsin now ranks among the top 10 states for out-migration.
Speaker: mary burke
About the speaker: Burke is a former Trek Bicycle executive and former Wisconsin Commerce Department secretary who announced on Oct. 7, 2013 that she would seek the Democratic nomination for governor in Wisconsin in the fall 2014 election against incument Republican Gov. Scott Walker. She lost to Walker on Nov. 4, 2014. She is a school board member in Madison, Wisconsin.
Date: March 25, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;jobs;population
Context: a report
Fact-check justification: But the latest one-year census estimate shows Wisconsin ranked 12th in raw numbers, 15th on a percentage basis. Also, a one-year measure based on a census survey indicates Wisconsin actually gained more residents than it lost through people moving from one state to another. Given that Burke’s  emphasized where Wisconsin ranks now, it goes too far. We rate it . Follow us on Twitter and Facebook .
Statement: Says Kate Cloonen "needs that extra $68,000" lawmaker salary on top of the "$8.5 million in state contracts for her construction company.
Speaker: aaron degroot
About the speaker: Aaron DeGroot has served as the Illinois Republican Party downstate press secretary since April 2016. 
Date: December 2, 2016
Location: illinois
Topics: corporations;elections
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: On Dec. 2, Illinois Republican Party’s Downstate Press Secretary Aaron DeGroot tweeted: "For Kate Cloonen, $8.5 million in state contracts for her construction company isn't enough. She needs that extra $68k/year" According to a document verified by IDOT, Cloonen’s company received $8.5 million in state construction funding for projects during her time as a legislator. Cloonen said that number is not an accurate reflection of what she personally netted from the state construction work, but she declined to share that amount. DeGroot’s tweet, though, lacks context and tries to draw a comparison between an individual salary and a company’s gross payment, not net profit, for work completed. Cloonen’s construction company only acted as a subcontractor and never directly bid on any state projects. Cloonen never was found to have a conflict of interest, and she recused herself from most votes regarding capital projects. And while political science professor emeritus Kent Redfield said Cloonen may have a conflict of interest being both a lawmaker and a business owner, he also said she operated within the law and did not act unethically. Though DeGroot’s comment about Cloonen was accurate, it omits significant information, including the fact that Cloonen was a subcontractor not hired directly by the state and regularly recuses herself from voting on capital problems. For those reasons, we rate DeGroot’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/b5975ded-3a6a-45b7-86e3-c435001893d4
Statement: Obamacare has failed.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: January 5, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;families;federal budget;health care;government regulation;medicaid;public health
Context: a press briefing
Fact-check justification: That’s not a failure. The biggest problem with Ryan’s statement is that he, and Obamacare critics, take a nuanced situation and turn it into a black-and-white statement. The same problem would face those who say Obamacare is a great success. Our definition of  is "a statement that contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression." That fits here.