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Statement: Says under Mitt Romney, "Medicare could end as we know it, leaving Julia with nothing but a voucher to buy insurance, which means $6,350 extra per year for a similar plan.
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: May 3, 2012
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;federal budget;health care;medicare
Context: a graphical tool on the campaign website
Fact-check justification: The Obama campaign’s "Life of Julia" graphic says that under Romney, "Medicare could end as we know it, leaving Julia with nothing but a voucher to buy insurance, which means $6,350 extra per year for a similar plan." But the bipartisan plan Romney supports includes traditional Medicare among seniors’ options for purchase on a Medicare exchange. It also requires other plans to offer benefits of at least the same value. Finally, it includes a more generous cap on spending growth than the original Ryan plan. If all plans rose in cost, hitting a proposed spending cap, the bipartisan plan says the government would turn to providers and other sources of savings. Meanwhile, Romney’s plan simply isn’t specific enough to justify the statement, "which means $6,350 extra per year for a similar plan" — a number based on analysis of the original Ryan plan. The Obama campaign ties Romney to an outdated plan with less generous spending growth and no traditional Medicare option. Romney does support a voucher-like system, but the graphic ignores critical facts that would give a different impression about his plan. We rate the  .
Statement: Knopp says he upheld a campaign promise not to join the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS).
Speaker: tim knopp
About the speaker: Former Oregon Rep. Tim Knopp, R-Bend, is challenging state Sen. Chris Telfer, R-Bend, for Senate District 27 in the May 2012 primary.
Date: February 12, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: elections;pensions;retirement;state budget;transparency
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: He promised voters that he would not accept PERS this year and he followed through on the promise. What Knopp failed to mention is that he was a member of PERS who closed his account in 2010 because his family needed the money. Knopp could have closed his account in 2003 -- and avoided the conflict then -- or he could have closed his account when he left office in 2005. None of that takes away from the accuracy of the statement -- he honored his pledge to stay out of PERS -- but it is additional information that we deem missing from his press releases. We rate the statement .
Statement: Since 2009, "after-tax incomes are up nearly 14 percent.
Speaker: penny pritzker
About the speaker: Penny Pritzker has served as Secretary of Commerce since June 26, 2013. Previously, founded and ran various businesses in the real estate, hospitality, senior living, and financial services industries. She served as CEO of PSP Capital Partners and developed companies in off-site airport parking and financial information services. She has also served on the boards of Hyatt Hotels, LaSalle National Bank, the William Wrigley Company.
Date: May 13, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: a Medium post
Fact-check justification: Specifically, he said, the slowdown in population growth since the 1970s, especially in the age groups likeliest to be working, has made it harder for the United States to reach the once-common historical level of 3 percent annual economic growth. Our rating Pritzker said that since 2009, "after-tax incomes are up nearly 14 percent." Using the most basic, aggregate measure, Pritzker is either on target or reasonably close. However, it’s worth noting that this accomplishment is not quite as impressive once you strip out population growth or look at growth levels historically. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: Says Mike Coffman said two different things: "stop the deportations" in a Spanish-language debate and "you're going to be deported" in an English-language TV interview.
Speaker: morgan carroll
About the speaker: Colorado state Sen. Morgan Carroll is a Democratic candidate for Colorado's 6th Congressional District in 2016.
Date: October 20, 2016
Location: colorado
Topics: immigration
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The Carroll campaign says Coffman said "stop the deportations" while speaking Spanish in a Univision debate and then shifted to saying "you're going to be deported," while speaking English during a KUSA interview. Technically, Coffman said in Spanish that he supported reform that would allow noncriminal adult immigrants to obtain documentation to work in the United States "without fear of deportations" -- not "stop the deportations," as the Carroll camp’s translation stated. The Carroll campaign is correct that Coffman said, "If you're here illegally, you're going to be deported" during the KUSA interview. But he also backed off that hardline position and emphasized his support for providing legal status to noncriminal adult immigrants and young people who were brought here as children who have lived here for years. Carroll can accuse Coffman of trying to be all things to all people, but her news release left out that he maintained -- in Spanish and English -- his reform goal of ensuring that noncriminal immigrants have an opportunity to live and work here "without fear of deportations." We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/eab32659-925c-4ea3-95fe-1509c024411f
Statement: Birthers have obtained a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.
Speaker: orly taitz
About the speaker: Orly Taitz is a lawyer, dentist and real estate agent based out of California who has filed several lawsuits on behalf of so-called "birthers," people who question whether President Obama was born in Hawaii and is eligible to serve as president.
Date: August 2, 2009
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;obama birth certificate
Context: an attachment to a lawsuit
Fact-check justification: So please, spare us the vitriolic e-mails. At PolitiFact, we have explored several of the birthers' claims, and have concluded that there is ample  that President Obama was born in Hawaii. We simply post this item in case anyone came across the Kenyan birth certificate on the Internet and wondered what to make of it. Obama's Kenyan birth certificate? .
Statement: Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas said: 'Hey, all you wrinkly, white-aged has-beens: It's time for you to die and let the next generation have your spot on the planet.'
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 7, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;race and ethnicity;negative campaigning
Context: a meme supposedly quoting Sheila Jackson Lee
Fact-check justification: The Facebook meme says Jackson Lee called on "all you wrinkly white-aged has-beens" to die. Not so, nor has she said anything close. !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says "Dr. Fauci lied about masks in March.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: December 27, 2020
Location: national
Topics: coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Rubio said that Fauci lied about masks in March. This is  in several ways. Fauci did say, "there is no reason to be walking around with a mask," but to call that lying takes Fauci’s words out of context. The country faced a shortage of high-quality masks, and Fauci also said in his interviews that masks should be preserved for sick people and health care workers. In addition, researchers did not know at the time that people without symptoms were spreading the virus. Once that was understood, wearing masks — even simple cloth masks — took on new importance for preventing community transmission. Lying means there was an intent to deceive. Fauci’s words in March about masks mirrored the widely held belief across government agencies at that time about the nature of the novel coronavirus and the best ways to control it. We rate this  . RELATED: Lies infected America in 2020. The very worst were not just damaging, but deadly. The 2020 Lie of the Year: Coronavirus downplay and denial
Statement: The United States spends "$2.2 billion on free cell phones, $27 million on Moroccan pottery classes" and pays for "the travel expenses for the watermelon queen in Alabama.
Speaker: sean duffy
About the speaker: Sean Duffy is a Republican member of the U.S. House, representing Wisconsin's 7th District in the northwestern part of the state. The former Ashland County district attorney was elected In November 2010, taking the seat previously held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Dave Obey of Wausau.
Date: March 10, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: agriculture;federal budget;foreign policy;poverty
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Alabama got $401,366 for 13 projects, including one to "partner with the Alabama Watermelon Association to promote the consumption of Alabama’s watermelon through appearances of the Alabama Watermelon Queen at various events and locations."      The Coburn book said $25,000 in federal money went toward the queen’s travel expenses.      So, Duffy is correct on this part of his , although it should be made clear that Uncle Sam picks up only part of the queen’s tab.      Our rating   Duffy said the federal government spends "$2.2 billion on free cell phones, $27 million on Moroccan pottery classes" and pays for "the travel expenses for the watermelon queen in Alabama."      Overall, Duffy’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details -- our definition of .
Statement: Says Romney said "we should ask Pakistan for permission" to take a shot at Osama bin Laden.
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: October 22, 2012
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;terrorism
Context: Boca Raton, Fla
Fact-check justification: Obama claimed that during the 2008 campaign, Romney said, "we should ask Pakistan for permission" to take out bin Laden. The reality is somewhat more complex. Romney did express a preference for working with the Pakistanis, and he attacked Obama for saying he would strike if Musharraf wouldn’t. But Romney’s clearest objection was to Obama saying the United States would attack inside Pakistan without approval — not to the option itself. "We keep our options quiet," he said. Obama oversimplified Romney’s stance four years ago. We rate his statement .
Statement: If outer space was a vacuum, astronauts would train in vacuum chambers. Not in swimming pools. Outer Space is a hoax.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 25, 2022
Topics: science;space;facebook fact-checks
Context: Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claimed, "If outer space was a vacuum, astronauts would train in vacuum chambers. Not in swimming pools. Outer Space is a hoax." Astronauts train in both settings. They train in vacuum chambers to understand pressure changes in outer space, and they train in swimming pools to experience a microgravity environment.  shows outer space is real and Earth is spherical, not flat.  We rate this  !
Statement: And the revenue generated by drilling off Virginia's coast? $40 million over 10 years.
Speaker: jim moran
About the speaker: Rep. Jim Moran, D-8th, was first elected in 1990 to represent a district covering Falls Church, Alexandria, Arlington County and part of Fairfax County.
He serves on the Appropriations Committee and is the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, as well as serving on the Defense Subcommittee.
Moran previously served as the mayor of Alexandria from 1985 to 1990.
Moran was born in Buffalo, N.Y. He graduated from College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., in 1967, and received a master of public administration from the University of Pittsburgh in 1970.
Date: February 15, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: energy
Context: s speech
Fact-check justification: Moran, opposing legislation that would open Virginia’s coast to drilling for oil and natural gas, said the venture would generate only $40 million in government revenue over the next 10 years. The Democrat based his  on a CBO report but misinterpreted what it said. The $40 million figure refers to a minor source of the revenue Virginia and Washington would share: upfront bonus payments energy companies would give the federal government for the right to test and drill. Beyond the $40 million, the companies would pay to lease space on the ocean floor. But more importantly, Moran omits that the companies would pay royalties on the offshore oil and gas they produced, which make up about 90 of the revenues for federal and state governments. In the early years of drilling, which could begin in 2018 or 2019, the royalties could produce tens of millions. Down the road -- beyond the 10-year period Moran addressed -- the royalties could translate into many hundreds of millions annually. Nothing is certain about drilling off Virginia’s coast, but Moran misused a very limited projection to create a  characterization of the venture’s potential. We rate his statement .
Statement: Photo shows Kelly Loeffler's house.
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: December 6, 2020
Location: georgia
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The couple also owns three homes in Florida, a condo in Chicago, and another Georgia residence. But the house in this picture is not one of them.   We rate this post . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: They never thought ... that I was going to release that call and I really had no choice because Adam Schiff made up a call.
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 15, 2019
Location: national
Topics: impeachment
Context: an interview with Dan Bongino
Fact-check justification: Trump said that the White House released a summary of his call with Zelensky after Schiff gave a  rendition of the call.  The summary came out before Schiff described the nature of the call at a hearing. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce's "own 2014 survey revealed that just 15 percent of business executive respondents were in favor of Right-To-Work legislation.
Speaker: wisconsin contractor coalition
About the speaker: Wisconsin Contractor Coalition is comprised of 400 firms in the construction contracting business that was formed in late 2014 to opposed enactment of a so-called "Right to Work" law in Wisconsin.
Date: February 23, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: labor;workers
Context: a website claim
Fact-check justification: And the coalition’s own  clearly referred to the favorability rating among "respondents" to the survey. Our rating The Wisconsin Contractor Coalition claimed: "WMC’s own 2014 survey revealed that just 15 percent of business executive respondents were in favor of Right-To-Work legislation." This is a misstatement of the WMC survey results, the first of which showed 15 percent of respondents wanted right to work as their number one priority, but were not asked whether they favored it. The second survey, though flawed as noted, found 81 percent of responding executives favored right to work. We rate the  .
Statement: If parents "don't have health insurance that Senator Obama wants them to have (for their children), they will be fined.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: October 26, 2008
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: Waterloo, Iowa
Fact-check justification: Actually, the fine is if the children are uninsured, not if they are insured under a certain type of plan. Obama wants all children to be insured, but he leaves many options through which this could occur. One of the central premises of Obama's plan is that people who are currently insured keep the insurance they have. So we find McCain is correct to say that the parents of children could face fines, but he is  to imply that it's the type of coverage that matters. We rate his statement .
Statement: Scott Walker has given a $10,000 tax deduction to millionaires who send their kids to exclusive private schools.
Speaker: wisconsin state afl-cio
About the speaker: The Wisconsin State AFL-CIO describes itself as the statewide coordinating council for 1,000 unions that represent 250,000 members in Wisconsin. The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 56 national and international labor unions.
Date: August 31, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;income;wealth;taxes
Context: a direct-mail piece
Fact-check justification: But depending on various factors, it's not necessarily more generous than other states. Our rating The state AFL-CIO said Walker "has given a $10,000 tax deduction to millionaires who send their kids to exclusive private schools." There is an element of , in that millionaires do benefit from the tax break. But so do taxpayers of other income levels who send their kids to private schools. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Chris Christie "vetoed equal pay for women 3 times. He only let the bill pass once it became a damaging campaign issue.
Speaker: ultraviolet
About the speaker: UltraViolet describes itself as "a community of women and men, fighting to expand women's rights and combat sexism everywhere - from politics and government to media and pop culture."
Date: June 30, 2015
Location: national
Topics: income;women;workers
Context: a Facebook meme
Fact-check justification: Ultraviolet said Chris Christie "vetoed equal pay for women 3 times. He only let the bill pass once it became a damaging campaign issue." Christie did veto three bills that were intended to narrow the gender wage gap, but it was out of a legislative package of four bills, and he eventually signed two of them into law. Additionally, It is unlikely that Christie only let one of the bills pass because it became a damaging campaign issue, considering Christie gave a conditional veto and recommended changes to the bill over a year before his re-election. The  has an element of , so we rate it .
Statement: Says Nancy Pelosi and Beto O'Rourke were photographed with El Chapo.
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: January 30, 2019
Topics: drugs;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: Nieto is walking between Cuellar and Pelosi, who issued a statement about the delegation’s meeting with the Mexican president. "At Los Pinos, we appreciated the opportunity to visit with President Enrique Peña Nieto and to engage in a productive dialogue on security, the economy, migration and human rights issues," she said. According to the Rio Grande Guardian, Pelosi, Cuellar and O’Rourke were joined by U.S. Reps. Richard Hanna, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Linda Sanchez, Michael Fitzpatrick, Michelle Lujan-Grisham, Pete Aguilar, Ruben Gallego and Norma Torres. None of those people are Mexican drug lord El Chapo. We rate this post !
Statement: He reformed welfare before others tried.
Speaker: rudy giuliani
About the speaker: Rudy Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City. He was born in Brooklyn in 1944 and previously served as a federal prosecutor, as well as an associate attorney general under President Reagan. He graduated from Manhattan College and earned a law degree from New York University Law School. He has been married since 2003 to Judith Nathan and was married twice before. He has two children, Andrew and Caroline. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 30, 2008.
Date: January 16, 2008
Location: national
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Giuliani began making changes shortly after being elected mayor, so 1994. That predates the governorships of Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. As for Sens. John McCain and Fred Thompson, the federal welfare reform laws passed in August 1996. But the ad doesn't narrow the field at all, so we can only deduce it means he reformed welfare before everyone else. And that is .