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Statement: Says the Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force "is the first task force of its kind in Central Ohio
Speaker: mike dewine
About the speaker: Mike DeWine, the Ohio attorney general, won the Republican primary for governor in May 2018 and is running in the general election in November. Previously he was one of Ohio's U.S. senator's, lieutenant governor and a member of the General Assembly.
Date: August 2, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: crime
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Given that DeWine’s task force is a law enforcement investigative unit armed with a tougher state law, we believe he is safe in claiming that his is the first such task force in Central Ohio. But for some, it might be a matter of semantics — a commission versus a task force versus a law enforcement collaboration without a name. DeWine certainly isn’t the first public official to shed light on this problem and look for solutions, so his boast might be misinterpreted. Additional information is needed for clarification. We rate his statement .
Statement: if your child gets this virus their going to hospital alone in a van with people they don't know...to be with people they don't know… you will be at home without them in their time of need.
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: March 25, 2020
Topics: children;health care;public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: If your child does have COVID-19 symptoms, the CDC first recommends to not take them to the hospital unless they develop emergency warning signs, such as having trouble breathing or experiencing persistent pain or pressure in the chest. The CDC has published guidelines for treating healthy adults and children with COVID-19 symptoms at home. The CDC also doesn’t consider children a high-risk group for COVID-19 and have found that children who have been confirmed to have the virus "have generally presented with mild symptoms." In the unlikely event that a child is hospitalized for complications from COVID-19, they will have a parent or another guardian by their side. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Bruce Starr was the only senator to vote for stronger ethics laws and greater accountability.
Speaker: bruce starr
About the speaker: Bruce Starr is a state senator in the Oregon Legislature. He was elected to the House in 2002 and re-elected in 2006 before running for the Senate. He owned a construction business, has worked for the Portland Business Alliance and now runs a business,  Cutting Edge NW, advising companies on public affairs strategies. He also previously served on the Hillsboro City Council.
Date: October 22, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: ethics;message machine 2010
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Starr is correct on that one, narrow issue. More often is better when it comes to disclosure. But to say he was the only senator to vote for stronger ethics laws is . Both Senate bills 10 and 30 sharply curtailed entertainment, meals and trips offered by lobbyists and strengthened Oregon’s ethics laws, and many senators voted in favor of the stricter rules. We rate this .   Comment on this item.
Statement: Quotes Joe Biden as saying "no ordinary American cares about constitutional rights.
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: May 8, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A  on Facebook quotes Biden as saying, "No ordinary American cares about constitutional rights." This is a distortion. Biden did say that no law-abiding citizen has any fear that their constitutional rights will be infringed without the protection of an AR-15. But he did not say that "ordinary Americans" simply don’t care about their constitutional rights. The quote shared on social media has been altered, exaggerated and taken out of context. We rate this .
Statement: Health care reform: "Everything about it is going to raise costs, raise taxes and lower the quality of health care.
Speaker: kay bailey hutchison
About the speaker: Kay Bailey Hutchison, initially elected to the U.S. Senate in 1993, did not seek re-election in 2012. She ran for governor in 2010, losing the Republican nomination to incumbent Rick Perry.
Date: November 19, 2009
Location: texas
Topics: health care
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Summing up, Hutchison is correct that the Senate plan is projected to increase costs — at the onset — and to add taxes. But she she overlooked CBO projections stating the plan would slow long-term federal spending thanks to its provisions designed to offset costs. Hutchison stretches too far by saying everything in the bill would raise taxes, drive up costs and conceivably diminish quality. As we've described, several parts of the bill are intended to lower costs, and most people won't see a tax increase. We rate her overreach .
Statement: Chicago experienced its deadliest weekend of the year...With 7 dead and 52 wounded near a playground.
Speaker: ivanka trump
About the speaker: Ivanka Trump is an American businesswoman and the daughter of and assistant to President Donald Trump.
Date: August 6, 2019
Location: illinois
Topics: crime;guns
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Last weekend also was not the deadliest weekend of the year in Chicago, according to data from CPD.   As a result, Trump severely misstated the gun violence situation in Chicago during the first weekend of August. We rate her  .  — The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context.   Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Wisconsin is "not walking away from a dime" in federal funds by rejecting the Obamacare Medicaid expansion.
Speaker: kitty rhoades
About the speaker: Republican Kitty Rhoades, a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from 1999 through 2010, became the deputy secretary of the state Department of Health Services in January 2011. In February 2013, she was appointed secretary of the department by Gov. Scott Walker.
Date: June 6, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;health care;medicaid;state budget
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: What is clear, is Walker's alternative to the Obamacare Medicaid expansion comes at a cost to state taxpayers of $119 million in 2013-2015 alone -- which is the criticism Rhoades was trying to refute. Our rating Responding to criticism that state taxpayers are taking a financial hit because Walker chose not to expand Medicaid through Obamacare, Rhoades claimed "we’re not walking away from a dime" in federal funds. There's an element of  in her , in that under Walker's alternative plan, some level of federal funds will flow to Wisconsin insurers and health care providers based on the number of people who choose to buy health insurance through Obamacare exchanges. But the criticism focused on the impact on state government by not taking the Obamacare offer -- $119 million just in the next two years, a figure Rhoades doesn't dispute. Because of that, we rate her  .
Statement: Medicaid expansion "could cost the Commonwealth of Virginia over $1 billion a year...
Speaker: steven landes
About the speaker: Delegate Steve Landes represents the 25th District in the Virginia House of Delegates, which now includes portions of Albemarle, Augusta, and Rockingham Counties. He is Chairman of the House Education Committee and Vice Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. He is a member of the Rules and Privileges and Elections Committees.
Landes, a public relations consultant, was elected to the House in 1995. He has a B.S. degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Date: December 24, 2015
Location: virginia
Topics: medicaid;state budget
Context: a constituent survey
Fact-check justification: Landes, in a constituent survey, said Medicaid expansion "could cost the Commonwealth of Virginia over $1 billion per year." That contradicts the latest estimates on expansion. Virginia’s gross cost in 2022 - the furthest out the projections go - would be $324 million. The net cost, after taking into account a variety of savings the expansion offers, would be $3.1 million. That’s light years away from Landes’ figure. Landes’ estimate rests on the eye-popping supposition that the federal government could decide in the future to cut nearly half of its commitment to pay 90 percent of the costs for expansion, leaving states holding the bag. But this is pure speculation of his part. There’s no effort in Congress now to cut the federal share at all, let alone by the proportion Landes suggests. There’s a burden on Landes to prove his statement with facts, and he comes up short. We rate his  .
Statement: Says about 80% to 90% of people seeking asylum do not have a valid claim.
Speaker: dan crenshaw
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw represents the 2nd Congressional District in Texas.
Date: May 6, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: immigration
Context: a television apperance
Fact-check justification: Crenshaw said that about 80 to 90 percent of individuals seeking asylum do not have a valid . While data shows that in 2018 about 16% of asylum cases that originate from a credible fear  were granted and about 20% of all asylum claims were granted, experts said this does not mean that the remaining cases do not have merit. Crenshaw would have been accurate to say that 16% of people who apply for asylum after making a  of credible fear have an eligible asylum , but the inverse — what Crenshaw said — is . We rate this  .  – The statement is not accurate.
Statement: Republican redistricting plans cut Democrat Nancy Nusbaum out of  "her state Senate district by a half a block.
Speaker: afl-cio
About the speaker: The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 56 national and international labor unions. The AFL-CIO was created in 1955 by the merger of the AFL and the CIO. The AFL-CIO represents 11.5 million members.
Date: July 13, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: redistricting
Context: a blog posting
Fact-check justification: In criticizing the GOP maps, the state AFL-CIO says Nusbaum’s home would be carved out of "her state Senate district by half a block." She does live there and the map would fall the way the union claims. The maps may well face a legal challenge or even ultimately be redrawn by the courts. But that’s all in the future and not part of the  at hand. We rate the statement .
Statement: Two million more people just dropped out of Obamacare. It is in a death spiral.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: June 13, 2017
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: In a tweet, Trump linked 2 million people dropping coverage on the Obamacare exchanges to a "death spiral." The figure is plucked out of context. The pattern of people signing up and then dropping coverage has been steady over the past few years. One reason people do so, experts and government data say, is because they find coverage someplace else, most often by getting a job. The current government report behind Trump’s figure suggests the percentage of people letting their policies lapse has gone up, but this year, the government changed when it counted those lapsed policies. According to experts, that change created the appearance of a trend that might not exist. Trump’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito said that the U.S. needs a "domestic supply of infants" to meet the needs of parents seeking to adopt.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 7, 2022
Location: national
Topics: abortion;supreme court;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Social media posts  that Justices Alito and Barrett said the U.S. needs a "domestic supply of infants" for adoptive parents in their justification to overturn Roe v. Wade. These aren’t the justices’ words. The line appears in the leaked opinion draft as a footnote and came from a 2008 CDC document about adoption data.  We rate these posts .
Statement: In the wake of the Republican-backed tax bill, "more than 100,000 American workers have already been laid off in 2018.
Speaker: charles schumer
About the speaker: Charles Schumer is a Democratic senator from New York and the Senate majority leader.
Date: April 16, 2018
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;taxes
Context: a news release from Senate Democrats
Fact-check justification: Schumer and the Senate Democrats said that in the wake of the Republican-backed tax bill, "more than 100,000 American workers have already been laid off in 2018." The number of layoffs in that period was actually 34 times higher than the number cited — and the layoff rate has actually been declining consistently for the past eight years. We rate the statement .
Statement: The Wisconsin school voucher program "has no research that shows that it's going to improve student learning.
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: May 6, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;education;poverty;religion;state budget
Context: a forum
Fact-check justification: Public school students consistently outperformed voucher students on statewide test scores from 2011 to 2014. The one study held up by choice advocates shows only limited instances in which voucher students performed better, and the study couldn't determine whether the voucher schools themselves or other factors were the reason. Burke goes too far in saying there is no  that vouchers improve student learning, but the  is thin. We rate her statement . To comment on this article, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  website .
Statement: Inflation-adjusted defense spending has declined 21 percent since 2010, and even if we discount the drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has still declined by a dangerous 12 percent.
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: March 24, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: federal budget;military
Context: a Senate floor speech
Fact-check justification: Rubio said, "Inflation-adjusted defense spending has declined 21 percent since 2010 and even if we discount the drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan it has still declined by a dangerous 12 percent." While Rubio’s office didn’t get back to us, a Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments economist confirmed it was taken from an analysis he wrote about the fiscal year 2015 defense budget. Experts we talked to said while the conclusion is correct, Rubio doesn’t put the decrease in context of the historic high funding from 2010. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Wisconsin's 2011-13 state budget contains "no fee increases
Speaker: jeff fitzgerald
About the speaker: Wisconsin Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, is the speaker of the state Assembly. He was elected to the Assembly in 2000. His brother is Wisconsin state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald. In October 2011, Jeff Fitzgerald ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate in 2012.
Date: June 16, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: To sum up: Fitzgerald said the new state budget contains "no fee increases." The non-partisan state fiscal bureau, however, lists nine fee increases (along with eight fee reductions). The net result is an increase in fees of $111 million. It’s  to  there are no fee increases when some fees are being created, others are being raised and the result is more cash in the kitty. We rate his  .
Statement: Electrically charged stones discovered in Congo.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: January 23, 2023
Topics: energy;science;facebook fact-checks
Context: social media posts on January 23, 2023
Fact-check justification: Social media users circulated videos of supposed electrically charged stones found in Congo. Scientists say there have been no such breakthroughs. Although rocks can conduct electricity, they cannot store electricity.  We rate this  .   RELATED: Mining lithium poses environmental risks. The Biden administration isn’t ignoring them RELATED: CO2 output from making an electric car battery isn't equal to driving a gasoline car for 8 years
Statement: There is a precedent" for not nominating someone to the U.S. Supreme Court "in the middle of a presidential election.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: February 23, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: congress;history;legal issues;supreme court
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Ryan said: "There is a precedent" for not nominating someone to the U.S. Supreme Court "in the middle of a presidential election.’ It’s rare for a Supreme Court vacancy to occur during a presidential election year -- the last time was in 1940, although there were also two election-year nominations in 1968. But we could find no instances in which a president faced with a Supreme Court vacancy during a presidential election year did not make a nomination. It occurred five times between 1912 and 1940, and each time the nominee was confirmed. We rate Ryan’s statement .
Statement: Obamacare is "hurting people right now" with premium increases of up to 116 percent.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: January 5, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: The increases appear likely to affect several million people since about one-fifth of those enrolled in Obamacare aren’t eligible for subsidies. And while we can’t exactly identify all the factors in the rising premiums, they are clearly going up more than non-Obamacare premiums due in part to how the system was set up. The missing nuance in Ryan’s  is that it doesn’t acknowledge the millions of people who wouldn’t have any insurance without Obamacare and would presumably end up hurting even more. And we’ll note some level of financial hurt would exist regardless due to ever-rising cost of health care. For a statement that is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, our rating is .
Statement: Says Paul Ryan's budget relies on the same $700 billion in savings from Medicare that Mitt Romney and other Republicans have been attacking Democrats about.
Speaker: stephanie cutter
About the speaker: Stephanie Cutter appears as a co-host on CNN's Crossfire. She previously served as deputy campaign manager for the Barack Obama campaign in 2012. She is the former communications director for the Democratic National Committee and worked as a White House deputy communications director while Bill Clinton was president.
 
Date: August 12, 2012
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;health care;medicare;retirement
Context: an interview on "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: Cutter said that Romney attacked Obama for cutting $700 billion out of Medicare, but "Paul Ryan protected those cuts in his budget." Again, with this item we are not addressing whether they are cuts, but simply whether she is correctly characterizing Ryan's plan. Cutter is correct that the Ryan budget plan included cost savings that were part of the future health care law. Just recently, the Romney campaign backed away from that play, saying Romney’s plan would restore the spending that the health law is set to curtail, such as extra funding for private insurers under the Medicare Advantage plan. Still, Cutter was right about the Ryan plan. We rate her statement .
Statement: CDC director finally admits that COVID cases were overcounted in hospitals
Speaker: the gateway pundit
About the speaker: The Gateway Pundit is a conservative website.
Date: May 17, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: It was based on a report from NCHS that differentiated between death certificates that only listed COVID-19 and those that listed other conditions as well. In the recent , the Gateway Pundit misrepresented comments made by Walensky of the CDC. She said that "many, many hospitals are screening people for COVID when they come in." But The Gateway Pundit said she "admitted that ‘many, many hospitals’ were counting COVID deaths to include cases that were not COVID deaths. "  We rate this  .