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Statement: Some of the Democrats have been talking about ending (coverage for) pre-existing conditions.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: October 4, 2018
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;health care
Context: Rochester, Minn
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "Some of the Democrats have been talking about ending (coverage for) pre-existing conditions." We can’t find any examples of what Trump claimed Democrats were saying. A Democratic proposal to end pre-existing conditions would run 100 percent counter to Democrats’ own history with the Affordable Care Act and would undercut one of the Democrats’ most powerful messages on the campaign trail this year. We rate the statement . UPDATE: Shortly after publication, we lengthened the excerpt of Trump's remarks, so readers could read his complete thought.
Statement: We're talking about a law that would allow a child to be aborted right up to the moment of birth.
Speaker: christopher coyne
About the speaker: Christopher Coyne is the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington.
Date: February 6, 2019
Location: vermont
Topics: abortion
Context: Rutland
Fact-check justification: Bishop Coyne’s statement is  in a strict legal sense, but only if the law existed in a practice and policy vacuum. Without context, it is seriously  in regards to what would be permissible practice in Vermont. The proposed law would not change the legal reality in Vermont in any way. And all  indicates that the type of abortions that the bishop fears -- elective procedures in the final stages of pregnancy -- do not occur in Vermont, and would not occur if H.57 passes. We rate this  .
Statement: Washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough "makes a huge difference" in reducing transmission of the flu.
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: April 29, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: When the song is over, you've washed long enough. And regular soap works just fine. Obama said that handwashing and covering your mouth when you cough can make a huge difference. The scientific consensus on handwashing backs him up. We rate his statement .
Statement: Under the House Republican budget, "if these cuts were to be spread out evenly … the year after next, nearly 10 million college students would see their financial aid cut by an average of more than $1,000 each.
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: April 3, 2012
Location: national
Topics: education;federal budget
Context: remarks to a meeting of the Newspaper Association of America
Fact-check justification: Obama declared in his speech to news media that in the absence of information about cuts in the Ryan plan, he would extrapolate what might happen if those cuts were applied evenly across programs. He included such a detail about Pell Grants, saying "the year after next, nearly 10 million college students would see their financial aid cut by an average of more than $1,000 each." To his credit, Obama clarified that Republicans didn’t specify those cuts themselves and that they might apply cuts in ways other than the president assumed. But he hurts himself when he engages in a detailed analysis based on his own assumptions and then declares, "This is not conjecture." Budget experts tell us that applying cuts evenly in the absence of other information is fair, assuming he’s clear about what he’s doing. But Obama's figure was based on the assumption that savings would be achieved by, among other things, reducing the maximum grant level in 2013 and beyond. The problem is, House Republicans say that their report expresses a preference to maintain a maximum award of $5,550. But that preference isn’t in the budget resolution passed by the House. The president's statement is accurate using his set of assumptions, but his assumptions ignore a preference that House Republicans say was reflected in the report accompanying the Ryan budget — that Pell grant maximums not be reduced beyond 2013. And, if other means were used to reduce spending on Pell Grants, such as lowering income eligibility, the impact could be different. Those are important details to leave out, which leads us to a rating of .
Statement: Russia is becoming the first country to break ties with the Antarctic Treaty.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: September 12, 2022
Topics: environment;facebook fact-checks;russia
Context: Instagram post
Fact-check justification: A TikTok video shared to Instagram claims that Russia opted out of the six-decade-old Antarctic Treaty and confirmed that there is another civilization beneath the frozen continent. There is zero  corroborating either . We rate this video !
Statement: Says Joe Biden said a racial slur.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 25, 2021
Topics: race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A transcript of Biden’s remarks published by the White House reflects this: "And I’m eager to hear — I’m eager to hear — I’m eager to hear next from…"  About 2 minutes and 55 seconds into their video about the stumble, one of the Hodgetwins acknowledged that Biden was not trying to say a racial slur: "Hey, Joe, you can at least apologize, man. I mean I know you didn’t intentionally say it but how do you get confused with the word eager...?" But for social media users clicking through their feeds and seeing headlines that say the president said a racial slur, that context is missing.  Biden, who has a speech disorder, stumbled over the words "I’m eager. "  We rate the  that he said a racial slur .
Statement: Every time the weight of that vehicle is reduced by a hundred pounds, your chances of dying are going to go up by about 5 percent. Peel three hundred pounds off – you're 15 percent more likely to die in that car.
Speaker: lars larson
About the speaker: Lars Larson is a conservative radio talk show host. The "Lars Larson" show runs on 18 radio stations in Oregon and Washington. His Compass Media Networks national show is carried by 200 radio stations around the country. Larson got his start in radio, then reported for KPTV, Channel 12, in Portland for many years.
Date: March 20, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: environment;energy;regulation;transportation
Context: an online post
Fact-check justification: Researchers and others in the industry are somewhat divided on how much weight to give weight in calculating safety, but they acknowledge that Obama is not demanding that all of us start driving Honda Fits. We apologize for picking on Hondas. We don’t apologize for our ruling. We rate the statement . It contains a nugget of  -- it came from a 2003 report -- but the number is out of date and narrow to boot.
Statement: FACT: Unemployment rate has not decreased since @WVGovernor took office.
Speaker: west virginia democratic party
About the speaker: The West Virginia Democratic Party is the official Democratic organization in the Mountain State.
Date: January 9, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The West Virginia Democratic Party tweeted, "FACT: Unemployment rate has not decreased since @WVGovernor took office." The state unemployment rate did, in fact, decline from 5.3 percent to 5.1 percent on Justice’s watch. That said, it was an exceedingly narrow decline -- in fact, economists say that the margin of error for the survey in question leaves in doubt how big the decline was. We rate the statement .
Statement: A study "suggests that even after two years of hormone therapy, biological boys still maintain significant advantages over girls, including being 12% faster on the 1.5-mile run.
Speaker: roger marshall
About the speaker: Roger Marshall is a U.S. Senator from Kansas.
Date: March 1, 2021
Topics: children;sports
Context: an op-ed
Fact-check justification: After two years of taking hormones, the study found, the average transgender woman ran 12% faster than the average cisgender woman, compared with 21% faster before treatment. On a strength test, the same study found, the advantage of transgender women disappeared over that same interval. Experts say there’s limited research on transgender athletes, and little  that transgender women are dominating women’s sports. Marshall’s  cherry-picks the findings of the study, and one of the authors of the study said he misinterpreted its conclusions.    We rate the  .
Statement: Says "we will know which candidate you voted for.
Speaker: emails
About the speaker: On Oct. 20, someone sent threatening emails to voters in Florida and Alaska. The identity of the sender or senders is under investigation by law enforcement. 
Date: October 20, 2020
Location: florida
Topics: corrections and updates;elections
Context: email threat to Florida Democrats
Fact-check justification: An email says "we will know which candidate you voted for." While information on a Floridian’s voter registration, such as their party affiliation and name, is a public record, their actual ballot is private. That means that the authors of the email will not know whether the voters cast ballots for Trump or Biden. We can’t say for certain who wrote the emails, which are under investigation. But the statement that the author can find out who the voter cast a ballot for is . We rate this statement .  This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Says Mitt Romney suggested that "employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage.
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 16, 2012
Location: national
Topics: debates;drugs;health care;sexuality;women
Context: the second presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Obama said Romney "suggested" that "employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage." Romney says he doesn’t believe bureaucrats or employers should make the call whether a woman can use contraceptives. But his support for the Blunt amendment endorses the approach that employers should be able to make the decision about whether contraception is covered by employees’ insurance. We rate Obama’s  .
Statement: Says Florida U.S. Reps. Corrine Brown, Alcee Hastings and Frederica Wilson are Socialists.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: August 12, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: patriotism
Context: various web pages
Fact-check justification: You've heard it from the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the Democratic Socialists of America and the author of the commentary that inspired the blog activity: Just because you are a member of the Progressive Caucus does not mean you are a socialist. And none of the caucus members profess to be Socialists, including our Florida Democrats, Brown, Hastings and Wilson. The bloggers go too far in attacking them as socialists, a repeated label for liberals these days. We rate this  .
Statement: In 2013," Dan Patrick voted "against funding to test the backlog of rape kits, allowing rapists to walk free.
Speaker: leticia van de putte
About the speaker: Leticia Van de Putte, a pharmacist, was the 2014 Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor. She previously served in the Texas House.
Date: October 15, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: abortion;criminal justice;crime;women
Context: a video ad
Fact-check justification: Van de Putte said Patrick voted "against funding to test the backlog of rape kits, allowing rapists to walk free." This  is flawed in various ways -- starting with blaming Patrick for a result that didn’t come to be. In reality, Patrick appears to have been among senators to initially put the kit-test funding into the state budget. And while he voted against the final overall budget, there’s no indication he did so to stop the kits from being tested. Also, the contention that rapists walked free as a result of Patrick’s action is . The funding (to repeat) passed into law. When a statement is  and , the -O-Meter warms up in a hurry. !  – 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: It's taken more time to complete the Towpath Trail than it did to build the (Ohio & Erie) Canal.
Speaker: dan moore
About the speaker: Dan T. Moore III is a Cleveland businessman and entrepreneur. He was appointed as one of three MetroParks commissioners in January 2011. He also serves on numerous other boards in Greater Cleveland, including those for the Cleveland Clinic, Invacare Corp., Park-Ohio Inc. and Leadership Cleveland.
Date: January 3, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: recreation
Context: an interview with The Plain Dealer
Fact-check justification: Adding it all up, work on the Towpath Trail started no later than 1990. The portion within Cuyahoga County -- which is the portion involving Cleveland Metroparks -- is scheduled to be finished in 2014. That’s a span of 24 years. Construction of the canal that the original towpath once serviced took seven years. We rate Moore’s statement as .
Statement: Says he "fully funded Missouri K-12 education for the first time in state history.
Speaker: caleb rowden
About the speaker: Caleb Rowden is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives representing District 44.
Date: September 22, 2020
Location: missouri
Topics: education;state budget
Context: an online campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Rowden said he "fully funded Missouri K-12 education for the first time in state history."  He voted to approve a 2017 budget amendment to fully fund K-12. But he wasn’t a sponsor. And public education was fully funded in a previous formula for at least eight consecutive years from 1994 to 2001.  The statement is not accurate. We rate this  .
Statement: Farming is "one of the fastest growing areas of our economy.
Speaker: lincoln chafee
About the speaker: Lincoln Chafee is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. He served one four-year term as Rhode Island's governor, beginning on Jan. 4, 2011. He was the first Independent to be elected to that office. He subsequently became a Democrat. As a Republican, he served as mayor of Warwick from 1992 to 1999, when he was appointed to the U.S. Senate following the death of his father, Sen. John H. Chafee. He was elected to a full Senate term in 2000. He is married with three children. In April 2015 he formed an exploratory committee to consider running for President.
Date: June 5, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: agriculture;economy
Context: a newspaper story
Fact-check justification: Governor Lincoln Chafee said that farming  is "one of the fastest growing areas" of the Rhode Island economy. Six-year-old figures cited by Chafee’s spokeswoman did show an increase in the number of farms in Rhode Island. But fresher and more relevant figures on Rhode Island from the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis showed that the economic value of farming has actually fallen in recent years. The judges rule Chafee’s statement .
Statement: We're trailing every other state in the Midwest in terms of job creation since January of 2011.
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: January 20, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget;states;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: The Bureau of Labor Statistics notes that the monthly and quarterly numbers are separate survey tools and are not designed to be used in combination to compare states. Our rating Burke claimed that under Walker, private job growth is lowest in the Midwest. The  is accurate for adjoining states, based on either the monthly or quarterly jobs data. But viewed another way, three states in the Census Bureau-defined "Midwest"  -- Ohio, Nebraska and Missouri -- show slower private job-growth rates than Wisconsin. We rate her  .
Statement: Triggering leftists, Trump's reelection campaign is selling plastic straws.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 20, 2019
Topics: environment;elections;food;facebook fact-checks
Context: a story
Fact-check justification: More than half of all Straw purchasers were BRAND NEW small dollar donors. Amazing! The Trump campaign is selling plastic straws. They are advertised as reusable. We rate this headline .
Statement: Hillary Clinton lied many times to the FBI.
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: December 4, 2017
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;legal issues
Context: remarks to reporters
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "Hillary Clinton lied many times to the FBI." We at PolitiFact don't know exactly what Clinton told FBI investigators. We also know, however, that Trump failed to back up his allegation. Former FBI director Comey in congressional testimony said there was no basis to conclude she lied to the FBI. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: Since President Obama took full control of Washington … every single day, more than 1,500 of our jobs have been lost.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: January 24, 2012
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;message machine 2012
Context: a Web ad
Fact-check justification: Using the numbers available at the time -- which subsequently have been revised to be more favorable to the president -- and starting the count in January 2009, the ad is correct about the 1,500 jobs lost per day. But starting the count with Obama’s first full month in office, which we think is an equally plausible way of doing it, reduces that number significantly, to 43 percent lower than what the ad claims. Meanwhile, economists tell us that the causes of these job losses are multiple, so it is also  to attribute the blame solely to Obama.  On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: Barbara Buono by the numbers: As a Trenton politician, she voted to raise taxes 154 times. Under her, property taxes up 70 percent. Backed a 16 percent sales tax increase. Utilities, nursing homes, cell phones, parking lots, lottery wins, gyms – She taxed them all. Architect of Corzine's budget, she drove New Jersey $2 billion into debt. Barbara Buono by the numbers: taking New Jersey backwards.
Speaker: republican governors association
About the speaker: the gubernatorial campaign arm of the Republican Party.
Date: May 29, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: debt;state budget;taxes
Context: a gubernatorial campaign TV ad
Fact-check justification: An ad from the RGA claims, "Barbara Buono by the numbers: As a Trenton politician, she voted to raise taxes 154 times. Under her, property taxes up 70 percent. Backed a 16 percent sales tax increase. Utilities, nursing homes, cell phones, parking lots, lottery wins, gyms – She taxed them all. Architect of Corzine’s budget, she drove New Jersey $2 billion into debt. Barbara Buono by the numbers: taking New Jersey backwards." Each  on its face has a degree of accuracy, but lacks context and places blame squarely on Buono. As we have noted before, she has some responsibility for these increases because she voted for them, but they wouldn’t have happened without approval from either Corzine or a majority vote in the Legislature. We rate the ad . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect that Buono did not vote for a 70 percent hike in property taxes during the decade before Chris Christie became governor.
Statement: Congress gave an unelected board "the power to deny care to seniors.
Speaker: tom price
About the speaker: Rep. Tom Price is the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration. Previously, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 6th District of Georgia, an area that includes Marietta and Canton.
Date: December 8, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: a letter
Fact-check justification: The IPAB can push for changes that impact some areas of health care, and that could have an indirect result on care for seniors. The board, however, cannot propose changes that impact the most widely used forms of care -- such as inpatient hospital services, long-term care and hospice -- for Medicare beneficiaries. The IPAB can impact changes to some programs, but not specific care to specific seniors as Price’s statement implies.    Price’s concerns have merit, but his statement about the IPAB having the power "to deny care to seniors" needs much more context to be completely accurate. We rate his statement .