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Statement: Under the Graham-Cassidy health insurance bill, in "states like Maine, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, there will be billions more dollars to provide health insurance coverage for those in those states who have been passed by by Obamacare.
Speaker: bill cassidy
About the speaker: Bill Cassidy, a Republican, represents a Louisiana disrict in the U.S. House of Representatives. He challenged incumbent Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu in 2014.
Date: September 20, 2017
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Cassidy said that under his bill, in "states like Maine, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, there will be billions more dollars to provide health insurance coverage for those in those states who have been passed by by Obamacare." Two of those four states will see a temporary bump in funding before settling in for a longer-term decline, according to the Avalere study. But the other two states won’t ever see a funding increase under the bill, according to Avalere. Cassidy also glosses over the fact that these states chose to ignore the law’s offerings on their own. We rate the statement .
Statement: On average, Americans spend less than 10 percent of their disposable income on food. Compare that to folks in Mexico, who spend 22 percent, China, 28 percent and Russia, 37 percent.
Speaker: todd staples
About the speaker: Staples was first elected agriculture commissioner of Texas in 2006 after previously serving in the Texas Senate and House. He unsuccessfully sought the 2014 Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, afterward resigning for another job.
Date: December 29, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: agriculture;china;economy
Context: an op-ed
Fact-check justification: Those figures look similar to the ones cited by Staples when he compared how much of their disposable income American households spend on food versus how much households in other countries spend. But it appears that the USDA only looks at total household expenditures — not disposable income — when comparing relative food costs in foreign countries. That's not an apples-to-apples comparison. Still, available indicators support the thrust of Staples's statement, which is that Americans spend less than 10 percent of their disposable income on food, and the other three countries spend two and three times as much. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says that in polls about 2016 candidate leadership skills, he comes out "two and three and four times higher than anybody else.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: November 8, 2015
Location: national
Topics: polls and public opinion
Context: comments on "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Trump said that in polls about 2016 candidate leadership skills, he comes out "two and three and four times higher than anybody else." Only a few polls so far have asked about candidates’ leadership qualities, but Trump has a point that he usually comes out on top. One poll in particular supported Trump’s : Compared to the candidate with the next-highest results, about four times as many people said Trump had the best leadership skills among a group of candidates. But that was just one poll. Most polls have asked respondents to say whether each individual candidate has strong leadership qualities -- not comparing the candidates against each other. In these polls, Trump beats out his opponents by a handful of percentage points, not two, three or four times higher. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: In one year, (President Obama) provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world … into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: October 3, 2012
Location: national
Topics: environment;candidate biography;corporations;debates;energy;stimulus
Context: Denver
Fact-check justification: Romney used the number "$90 billion" five times in the first presidential debate, claiming, "In one year, (Obama) provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world … into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1." That is  in several ways. That $90 billion, as described in a report provided by the Romney campaign, wasn’t provided in one year, wasn’t distributed primarily via tax breaks, wasn’t primarily provided directly to companies, wasn’t primarily spent on solar and wind, and wasn’t spent at all on Fisker or Tesla. In reality, more than 60 percent of it was directed to state and local governments and utility companies for energy efficiency, transportation and electrical infrastructure . We rate his  .
Statement: Says Donald Trump "used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: October 20, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration;candidate biography
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Clinton claimed that Trump "used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower." There’s no question that undocumented workers were hired to do demolition work on the future site of Trump Tower. Questions remain as to how involved Trump was in the construction process and hiring of the 200 Polish laborers, but Clinton is factually correct to say that undocumented labor helped construct Trump’s New York skyscraper. We rate this statement as . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/53308da5-515b-4693-b9b8-f3728465b962
Statement: The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. "cannot account for creating one single job.
Speaker: chris larson
About the speaker: Chris Larson, a Milwaukee Democrat, was elected to the Wisconsin state Senate in November 2010. A former member of the Milwaukee County Board, he is a candidate for Milwaukee County executive in 2016.
Date: May 19, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Larson’s correct in that the agency, or a critical audit, can’t quantify its effectiveness. But Larson’s statement suggests no businesses have been assisted by WEDC. And there’s plenty of  that’s not the case, starting with the employers in northeastern Wisconsin. Our definition for  is: "The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression." That fits here.
Statement: Says "the area damaged by Hurricane Sandy represents roughly 10 percent of our nation's economy.
Speaker: rodney frelinghuysen
About the speaker: Rodney Frelinghuysen is a Republican Congressman representing New Jersey's 11th district, which includes all of Morris County and parts of Sussex, Somerset, Passaic, and Essex counties.
Date: January 15, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: economy;weather
Context: a speech on the House floor
Fact-check justification: During a Jan. 15 debate over approving federal aid for Hurricane Sandy victims, Frelinghuysen said on the House floor that "the area damaged by Hurricane Sandy represents roughly 10 percent of our nation's economy." But the congressman’s figure applies to a territory much larger than what was damaged in the storm. The statistic represents the combined gross domestic product in all of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and thus includes areas that were untouched by Sandy. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: BREAKING: ANTHONY FAUCI is set to be arrested!!!
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: March 16, 2023
Location: national
Topics: congress;public health
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Other accounts that shared the  also led social media users to the same Telegram account. Fauci appeared March 11 on CNN and told host Jim Acosta that remarks from high-profile people calling for his arrest are irresponsible and endanger his family.   "Every time somebody gets out and spouts some nonsense that is misinformation, disinformation and outright lies, somebody somewhere decides they want to do harm to me and or my family," he said. Fauci added that the threats are the reason he still needs security protection, even after stepping down in 2022 as a chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden and the institute. We rate claims that say Fauci is set to be arrested !
Statement: FEMA is paying for hotel rooms!!!" for Texas winter storm victims.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 17, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: federal budget;natural disasters ;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Texas Division of Emergency Management retweeted FEMA's warning about the scam. Carman Apple, a district coordinator with the Texas agency, said in an email:  "We have been made aware of a   and phone number being circulated with a message about FEMA paying for hotels for Texas disaster relief in response to the February winter storms.   We echo our partners at FEMA in saying that ‘This is a scam.’   The best information on legitimate sources of help in your area will come from local officials and TDEM." We rate the post .
Statement: Says Gov. Ralph Northam "stated that he would even allow a newborn baby to come out into the world... then talk to the mother and talk to the father and then execute the baby.
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 11, 2019
Location: virginia
Topics: abortion
Context: a rally
Fact-check justification: Trump says Northam "stated that he would even allow a newborn baby to come out into the world and wrap the baby, and make the baby comfortable, and then talk to the mother and talk to the father and then execute the baby. Execute the baby." Northam, a physician, never said he would sanction the execution of newborns. What he did say during a radio interview is that in rare, late-pregnancy cases when fetuses are nonviable, doctors deliver the baby, keep it comfortable, resuscitate it if the mother wishes, and then have a "discussion" with the mother. The issue is that Northam declines to say what that discussion would entail. Trump puts words in the governor’s mouth, saying doctors would urge the mother to let them forcibly kill the newborn, which is a felony in Virginia punishable by a long prison sentence or death. Trump misstates and  Northam’s words in ways that fan division. Often, that’s enough for us to torch someone’s pants. But Northam left himself open to some interpretation by declining to clarify his confusing remarks. So we rate Trump’s statement .
Statement: Says Romney flip-flopped on abortion.
Speaker: american bridge 21st century
About the speaker: American Bridge 21st Century is a Democratic super PAC.
Date: March 21, 2012
Location: national
Topics: abortion;message machine 2012
Context: a video ad
Fact-check justification: American Bridge’s ad suggests that Romney has been both an abortion rights supporter and an opponent. Using statements on an Etch A Sketch screen, the ad first portrays Romney as supporting abortion rights, then as opposing them. In other words, a flip flop. The quotes in the ad accurately portray Romney’s past and present stances, but the punctuation suggests they are his actual words. The second statement was not a literal quote, and that’s worth noting, but it was a  reflection of Romney's position. According to our -O-Meter, this ad passes muster. It’s accurate and doesn’t leave out anything important. We rate it .
Statement: Says McCain "voted to let governments charge rape victims" for forensic exams.
Speaker: planned parenthood
About the speaker: Planned Parenthood Federation of America identifies itself as the nation's leading women's health care provider, educator, and advocate, serving women, men, teens, and families. The Planned Parenthood Action Fund is an independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization formed as the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Planned Parenthood Votes is a super PAC affiliated with Planned Parenthood.
 
Date: October 1, 2008
Location: national
Topics: legal issues
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: That's the classic kind of cherry-picking we've seen in campaign ads and it is flimsy  for the serious charge that McCain opposed the program, especially in light of his clear support at other times. Planned Parenthood has virtually nothing to back up its charge that McCain voted to let states charge for rape exams. Sure, McCain voted against a larger crime bill in 1994, but that vote was about assault weapons and spending, not the Violence Against Women Act. And McCain has supported the law before then — and twice since. Planned Parenthood's  isn't just , it's  so, which merits a .
Statement: When terrorists killed more than 250 Americans in Lebanon under Ronald Reagan, "the Democrats didn't make that a partisan issue.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: January 25, 2016
Location: national
Topics: congress;history;terrorism
Context: a CNN town hall
Fact-check justification: Clinton said that when terrorists killed more than 250 Americans in Lebanon under Ronald Reagan, "the Democrats didn’t make that a partisan issue." Clinton has a strong point that the Democrat-held House did not react as forcefully to the 1983 Beirut bombings as the Republican-held House reacted to the 2012 Benghazi attack, which killed four. The House conducted a single investigation into the Beirut bombings, which killed more than 250 Americans, while it has conducted six inquiries into Benghazi, which killed four. But it’s not totally accurate to say the Democrats didn’t make it a partisan issue. Mondale, running against Reagan in 1984, and some congressional Democrats repeatedly said Reagan had failed personally regarding Lebanon. We rate Clinton’s partially accurate  .
Statement: In the last 10 years, Georgia's middle class income has dropped $6,500.
Speaker: jason carter
About the speaker: Jason Carter was elected to the Georgia Senate in May 2010, representing portions of DeKalb County. He is an attorney at the business litigation firm of Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP. Carter is the grandson of former U.S. president and Georgia governor Jimmy Carter.
Date: September 22, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: census;income
Context: television ad
Fact-check justification: "We haven’t really seen that much growth since we hit that floor." In summary, Carter’s ad says middle-class income has dropped $6,500 in 10 years. He bases this on historical data from the U.S. Census Bureau. That shows Georgia’s median household income, in inflation-adjusted dollars, fell by $6,682, from $54,803 in 2002 to $48,121 to 2012. We rate Carter’s ad  as .
Statement: Consuming "rice and beans, milk, cheese, butter and eggs" causes disease by age 30.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 27, 2022
Topics: food;food safety;facebook fact-checks;health check
Context: a Facebook reel
Fact-check justification: Bowman’s  that rice and beans, milk, cheese, butter and eggs cause disease and his alkaline diet and theory of what causes illness are not supported by scientific .  We also found no  that the foods enumerated in the video, if eaten in moderation, regularly cause disease in young people.  We rate this  !
Statement: We spend more per student than almost any other major country in the world.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: September 8, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: education
Context: Cleveland
Fact-check justification: Trump said that in the United States spends "more per student than almost any other major country in the world." Trump’s assertion that U.S. taxpayers don’t get enough bang for their relative buck, when our students’ test scores are ranked worldwide, checks out. The most recent numbers put the United States at third for government spending on education, behind Switzerland and Norway. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: Palin "inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22-million.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: August 31, 2008
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: It's up to us to do what the people are asking for." The U.S. Census does not provide yearly population estimates before 2000, but Wasilla's population grew by about 13 percent in the last two years of Palin's mayorship alone. It stands to reason that a town's budget will grow as the population rises. And if voters okayed the bond issues for the sports complex and road projects, as well as for the sales tax increase, we think it's a little  to pin them entirely on the mayor, even if she did lobby for them. But Kilkenny's numbers are  accurate, so we rule her statements about Wasilla's finances under Palin .
Statement: Black Lives Matter of Atlanta Charged with Wire Fraud, Money Laundering and Allegedly Using almost 500k in Donations For Personal Use.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: March 16, 2021
Topics: crime;race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: A tweet reposted to Facebook said, "Black Lives Matter of Atlanta Charged with Wire Fraud, Money Laundering and Allegedly Using almost 500k in Donations For Personal Use." That’s . Black Lives Matter was not charged. The charges are against one person accused of misusing donations to what the Justice Department says was an illegitimate nonprofit posing as a Black Lives Matter charity.  The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation said in a September statement that it was not affiliated with that person. A local news report from 2016 said he had "parted ways" with the Black Lives Matter of Atlanta movement.  We rate this tweet .
Statement: Among his (Obama's) pet projects is a bill ... which would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid.
Speaker: focus on the family action
About the speaker: Focus on the Family Action is the lobbying arm of Focus on the Family, an organization founded by evangelical Christian Dr. James Dobson.
Date: March 26, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: an e-mail message
Fact-check justification: It also would require the State Department to prepare several reports. But, "enacting the bill would not affect direct spending or receipts." Now, maybe the president decides that in order to address extreme global poverty the United States ought to kick in more. But the president would not be tied to any dollar figure in this bill. The statement — which began with Kincaid and was repeated by Focus on the Family Action — is .
Statement: Nick Freitas "voted to let businesses discriminate and fire expecting mothers for no other reason but their pregnancy. 
Speaker: united association’s union plumbers and pipefitters vote! pac
About the speaker: The United Association - based in Annapolis, Md. - is a union of plumbers, pipefitters, welders and service technicians. It claims to represent 340,000 workers and their families.
Date: September 15, 2020
Location: virginia
Topics: unions;women;workers
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification:    The United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters PAC says in a TV ad that Freitas "voted to let businesses discriminate and fire expecting mothers for no other reason but their pregnancy. " Freitas voted against a bill - now a law - to bar small companies from firing or discriminating against an employee because she is pregnant or has a condition related to her pregnancy. But this was not a sweeping bill as the ad suggests by offering no other details. The legislation protects pregnant workers at companies with 6-14 employees. The vast majority of women work for companies with 15 or more employees and were already protected by federal law.  So the ad  is accurate, but needs elaboration. We rate it .