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Statement: Road congestion costs rush hour drivers in Austin and Dallas more than $1,000 a year. And in Houston, it's even more -- almost $1,500 a year.
Speaker: greg abbott
About the speaker: Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
Date: October 19, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: transportation
Context: Austin American-Statesman
Fact-check justification: Greg Abbott said "Road congestion costs rush hour drivers in Austin and Dallas more than $1,000 a year. And in Houston, it’s even more -- almost $1,500 a year." Abbott’s  was based on an annual Urban Mobility Report produced by the Texas Transportation Institute. While his figures match those in the report, critics have raised significant questions about how the numbers are calculated, as well as the premise that normal traffic conditions result in a congestion cost to motorists. They also point to the institute’s sponsors, most of which are transportation agencies that can be expected to use the report to advocate for additional funding for road projects. We rate this  .    – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Members of Congress gave themselves a 21% pay raise
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: March 14, 2022
Topics: congress;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: In the 2022 spending bill, lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives received an increase in their office budgets, known as Members Representational Allowance, according to a summary of the bill by the House Appropriations Committee. The allowance is used for staff, travel, rent, utilities, communications, supplies and equipment, according to the Congressional Research Service . The $774.4 million allocated in 2022 for the Members Representational Allowance is $134 million higher than the previous year — a 21% increase. It’s the largest increase since the Members Representational Allowance was authorized in 1996. We rate the  that members of Congress gave themselves a 21% pay raise .
Statement: Ron DeSantis let "millions of COVID-19 tests expire.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: January 28, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: public health;ad watch;coronavirus
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Crist said DeSantis let "millions of COVID-19 tests expire." Crist overstated the number of tests that expired, it was up to 1 million, not "millions." Crist’s statement leaves the impression that the tests were no longer usable. However, because the tests were stored safely, the FDA has allowed the tests to be used by March 2022. Nearly all tests have been distributed to testing sites, according to the state’s health department. DeSantis has acknowledged the tests twice passed their expiration dates in 2021. He attributed that to little demand from testing sites during most of the second half of 2021 and pending federal approval regarding the tests’ safety.  Crist’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: When the NECAP proficiency test is re-given to the kids the second and third time, harder questions are taken out.
Speaker: eva marie mancuso
About the speaker: Lawyer Eva Marie Mancuso has been chairwoman of the Rhode Island Board of Education since 2013. A former assistant attorney general now in private practice, she spent two years as a member of the board's predecessor, the Board of Governors for Higher Education.
Date: April 5, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: education
Context: an interview on WPRI-TV's "Newsmakers"
Fact-check justification: Rhode Island Board of Education Chairwoman Eva Marie Mancuso said, "When the [NECAP proficiency] test is re-given to the kids the second and third time, those [harder] questions are taken out." Seniors who retake the NECAP should find that the second test is just as difficult as the first because it's the same test that juniors are taking. It's only in the third test, given to seniors who fail the second, that the number of questions will be fewer and harder questions -- ones designed for more advanced students -- will be removed. At least, that's the plan. Because her statement is only partially accurate, we rate it  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Donald Trump said he was excited for the 2008 housing crash that devastated millions of American families, because he thought it would help him scoop up more real estate on the cheap.
Speaker: elizabeth warren
About the speaker: Elizabeth Warren is a senator from Massachusetts. Warren was elected to the Senate in 2012 and was re-elected in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024. Warren received a bachelor’s degree in speech pathology and audiology from the University of Houston and a J.D. from Rutgers Law School. In 2019, she announced her race for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out March 5, 2020.
Date: July 25, 2016
Location: national
Topics: debt;economy;history;housing
Context: a speech at the Democratic convention
Fact-check justification: Warren said, "Donald Trump said he was excited for the 2008 housing crash that devastated millions of American families, because he thought it would help him scoop up more real estate on the cheap." We haven't seen any  that Trump said he was excited about the crash once it happened, and Warren's office did not provide any. However, the existing  predates 2008, and it shows that Trump didn't think a crash was going to happen at all. He did make it clear that he would try to take advantage of a downturn in the housing market, but any good investor would try to do that. Warren’s statement puts Trump’s comments in the  context, but she has a point about his buying philosophy. Warren's statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details, so we rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/e349a2cd-2c08-4616-9147-8f8045f5dcdb
Statement: If the General Assembly does not address the state's structural deficit, "more than 23,000 education professionals will be immediately yanked out of Pennsylvania schools.
Speaker: tom wolf
About the speaker: Tom Wolf is a Democrat running for the gubernatorial nomination in Pennsylvania in 2014. Wolf, a businessman, served as state revenue secretary in 2007 and 2008 under Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell.
Date: February 9, 2016
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: state budget
Context: his budget proposal address
Fact-check justification: During his fiery budget proposal address on Feb. 9, Wolf said Pennsylvania’s ongoing budget problem is based on math, saying that if the Republican-controlled legislature doesn’t address the state’s structural deficit, "more than 23,000 education professionals will be immediately yanked out of Pennsylvania schools." Experts and analysts from organizations leaning toward both sides of the aisle say it’s difficult to precisely estimate how local school districts would address funding cuts. His administration said that’s based on cuts made after funding was slashed under former Gov. Tom Corbett. While the amount of educational service jobs in Pennsylvania did decrease by 23,000 positions by January 2013, those cuts took two years to play out and were not immediate, as Wolf’s administration said would happen this time around if the same cuts were to occur. We rule the  .
Statement: During Obama's first five years as president, black unemployment increased 42 percent. During Reagan's presidency, black unemployment dropped 20 percent.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 17, 2015
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;jobs;race and ethnicity
Context: a meme on social media
Fact-check justification: The meme says that "during Obama's first five years as president, black unemployment increased 42 percent. During Reagan's presidency, black unemployment dropped 20 percent." This  is problematic on several levels. It presents a time frame cherry-picked to boost Reagan’s record. It flat-out misrepresents the statistics during Obama’s first five years, when black unemployment actually fell. And it ignores several other measures that show that black unemployment was better in absolute terms under Obama than Reagan. We rate the  .
Statement: Brendan Doherty wants "to repeal Obamacare, increasing drug prices for seniors.
Speaker: david cicilline
About the speaker: David Cicilline was elected to the 1st Congressional District in 2010. Before that, he was mayor of Providence, beginning in January, 2003. A Brown University graduate, he received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
Date: September 25, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: drugs;health care;medicare;message machine 2012;negative campaigning;poverty;public health
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: David Cicilline, in a campaign ad, says Brendan Doherty wants "to repeal Obamacare, increasing drug prices for seniors." Doherty does want to repeal Obamacare, and a repeal would do precisely that. But Doherty, at least as far back as July 2, has repeatedly said he would not vote for repeal until "better solutions" are found. Such subtlety is lost in the Cicilline ad. Because the statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, we rate it  . (Get updates from PolitiFact Rhode Island on Twitter: @politifactri . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Says Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Dold "continues to side with his Republican leadership and the NRA in blocking consideration of a bill that would keep firearms out of the hands of people on the terrorist watch list.
Speaker: brad schneider
About the speaker: Brad Schneider of Highland Park served one term in Congress representing the 10th District. He is a resident of Highland Park. He and U.S. Rep. Bob Dold have run against each other three times.
Date: September 16, 2016
Location: illinois
Topics: guns
Context: a campaign tweet
Fact-check justification: Dold has not signed the discharge petition for the "No Fly, No Buy" bill, and his voting record (as demonstrated through previous questions and motions to recommit) has not helped to progress a vote on the bill. However, there are additional details worth considering that the  does not mention. Dold is a co-sponsor of the "No Fly, No Buy" bill itself, and his past record has caused the NRA to label him a " enemy of gun owner’s rights." There also is some ambiguity on the intention behind procedural maneuvers. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important information. We rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/2c62e5ac-e831-4ed1-a757-cb7f532eede3
Statement: The flu didn't kill any Americans this year.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 16, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Flu fatalities are based on death certificate data, which are collected and estimated each week by the National Center for Health Statistics within the CDC. According to the NCHS weekly tally of influenza deaths , about 8,000 Americans have died from influenza from January 2020 to May 16, 2020. This is not counting deaths caused by pneumonia, which is a common complication of the flu. The CDC says that COVID-19, which has now killed nearly 100,000 Americans, is affecting the way people are seeking health care, so data should be interpreted with caution. While the CDC’s figures are estimates and considered preliminary, the  that no Americans have died from the flu in 2020 is !
Statement: Congress can tell [the Supreme Court] which cases they ought to hear. We have that authority.
Speaker: arlen specter
About the speaker: Arlen Specter is a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania. He was initially elected to the Senate in 1980 as a Republican and was elected another four times on the Republican banner, even serving for a time as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, before switching parties in 2009 to become a Democrat. He was denied the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination in 2010, losing in the primary to Rep. Joe Sestak, and retired in 2011.
Date: April 21, 2010
Location: national
Topics: supreme court
Context: an interview on MSNBC's Daily Rundown
Fact-check justification: "They do have to act in general terms." Specter claimed that Congress can tell the Supreme Court which cases it must hear. According to the Constitution, Congress has the authority to do just that: it can write legislation that gives the court appellate jurisdiction over certain cases, as it did when it passed the Voting Rights Act. However, our experts said Congress cannot tell the Court that is must hear a specific case. We find Specter's  .
Statement: Hundreds of 'illegals' were dropped off at Florida hotel.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 31, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: An article being shared on Facebook claims that migrant workers that arrived via bus at a central Florida hotel are here illegally, citing a video first shared by a Florida congressional candidate. That’s not , said the company that hired them and the mayor of Apopka. The people shown in the video were hired by Dewar Nurseries as part of the U.S. H2-A visa program, which allows employers to hire foreign nationals to fill seasonal agricultural jobs that couldn’t otherwise be filled. Data from the Labor Department confirms that the company has participated in the program and housed workers at the Extended Stay Hotel. We rate this  .
Statement: There's been a "20 percent increase in young people coming back to Buffalo after a decade where we lost 10 percent of our young people.
Speaker: andrew cuomo
About the speaker: Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, was elected to his first term as governor of New York in 2010.
Date: March 12, 2019
Location: new york
Topics: population
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Cuomo said there has been a 20 percent increase in young people "coming back" to Buffalo after a decade when their numbers fell by 10 percent. Census figures show a 29 percent increase in people ages 25 to 34. In the previous 10 years, the size of that age group fell by 10 percent. If the governor had just said their numbers grew, he would have been generally correct. He actually understated Buffalo's increase. But he said they were "coming back." The data he relied on does not prove they came back. In fact, one expert called the  they were coming to be "grossly overstated." While the number of younger people living in Buffalo increased, the cause could be a large millennial population aging into this age group, not solely because people are returning. So his statement is partially accurate but makes a sweeping, unproven conclusion. It is unclear how many young people have returned to Buffalo, or settled there after living elsewhere.  We rate Cuomo’s statement .
Statement: Says "Mitt Romney's plan rolls back regulations" on banks.
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 27, 2012
Location: national
Topics: financial regulation;message machine 2012
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The Obama ad says "Mitt Romney’s plan rolls back regulations" on banks. Romney has provided scant details on his plans, but he has said that he would push for changes. Romney has never suggested that tougher regulations are needed, and he has said many times that government regulates too much.  It is reasonable to conclude his plans would be more in line with current Republican initiatives than the present law passed by Democrats. That direction points toward fewer restrictions than are in place under Dodd-Frank. Certainly, Romney has said that the provisions for the largest banks should be replaced. Conservative analysts would say that these changes would not put the financial system at greater risk. However, the ad simply says Romney would roll back regulations on the institutions that contributed to the financial crisis. How much of a rollback is unclear, but Romney does support a lighter regulatory touch on banks, so we rate the statement .
Statement: Says GOP state Sen. Patrick Testin is responsible for lost $25M in federal funding, because he refused "to do his job.
Speaker: wisconsin state senate democrats
About the speaker: Four Democratic state senators in Wisconsin were targeted by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce with TV ads in the 2010 election.
Date: May 8, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;public health;states
Context: news release
Fact-check justification: The Wisconsin State Senate Democratic Committee blamed Testin after Wisconsin lost $25 million in federal funding, saying the senator refused "to do his job." The rules for convening legislative sessions mean Testin -- a first-termer who is not part of leadership -- couldn’t do much more than ask leaders to take up the package sooner.  But that hardly puts the full weight of the lost money on him. That leaves us with a  that contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate the  . window.gciAnalyticsUAID = 'PMJS-TEALIUM-COBRAND';
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Statement: Elon Musk bans Greta Thunberg from Twitter.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 9, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: There are no news reports to corroborate this . Plus, the story in the blog post originated on a satire site seven days earlier.   The Elon Musk blog post circulating on social media now contains no such caveats. In December, Musk declared Thunberg "cool."    We rate claims that Musk blocked Thunberg .
Statement: Walrus seen on Florida streets after Hurricane Ian hits land.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: September 28, 2022
Topics: animals;weather;facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: And it happened in Puerto Cisnes, Chile — not Florida.   In October 2020, an elephant seal got stranded on shore and began roaming the seaside town. It wasn’t related to a hurricane or weather event. The Guardian reported that neighbors, police and naval officers worked together to guide the unlikely visitor back to the water.   We rate this  !
Statement: It happened under Obama, and it was lauded by the media as being genius. And now under the Trump campaign — it's the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Speaker: meghan mccain
About the speaker: Meghan McCain is the co-host of ABC's The View and an ABC Politics analyst. She is the daughter of John McCain, a U.S. senator from Arizona.
Date: March 20, 2018
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: a discussion on "The View"
Fact-check justification: McCain said that there was a strong equivalence between how the Obama and Trump campaigns accessed user data on Facebook.  The Obama campaign and Cambridge Analytica both gained access to huge amounts of information about Facebook users and their friends, and in neither case did the friends of app users consent. But in Obama’s case, direct users knew they were handing over their data to a political campaign. In the Cambridge Analytica case, users only knew were taking a personality quiz for academic purposes. The Obama campaign used the data to have their supporters contact their most persuadable friends. Cambridge Analytica targeted users, friends and lookalikes directly with digital ads. Whereas the data gathering and the uses were very different, the data each campaign gained access to was similar. We rate this statement . Update, April 11, 2018: This story has been updated to include additional information about Facebook’s audience tool.
Statement: When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average.
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: June 4, 2012
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;jobs;message machine 2012;states
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The Obama campaign’s numbers check out: Manufacturing jobs did decline at a steeper rate on Romney’s watch than they did nationally. Still, it’s a stretch to lay at Romney’s feet the decline of manufacturing jobs in Massachusetts. His policies had a relatively small impact compared with the decades-long trend beyond the control of any politician. And the rate of decline under Romney was actually slower than it was before and after he took office. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: Martin Luther King was a Republican.
Speaker: travis rowley
About the speaker: Travis Rowley is a Brown University graduate and chairman of the Rhode Island Young Republicans.
Date: January 21, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: civil rights;history
Context: an opinion column
Fact-check justification: We can certainly envision King being willing to vote against the Southern Democrats who furiously promoted segregation and voting for Northern Republicans who worked to make equal rights a reality. But neither automatically make King a Republican, especially when, as a civil rights leader, he apparently wouldn't let himself be pigeon-holed into either political party. In short, Rowley and other advocates for the King-was-really-a-Republican theory haven't proven their case. So we will follow the lead of the two previous PolitiFact analyses and rule that Rowley's  is  . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)