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Statement: Wisconsin has seen over 63 billion dollars of federal pandemic-related funding funnel into our state over (Gov. Tony Evers') tenure.
Speaker: joan ballweg
About the speaker: Joan Ballweg is currently serving in the Wisconsin State Senate, representing the 14 senatorial district.  She previously served eight terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly and was Mayor of Markesan, Wisconsin. She is a member of the Republican Party. 
Date: January 24, 2023
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;state budget;coronavirus
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  Ballweg said: "Wisconsin has seen over 63 billion dollars of federal pandemic-related funding funnel into our state over (Gov. Tony Evers') tenure." Although the $63 billion in funding is on point, Evers direct controlled only about $5 billion of that. The rest went to other units of government, or directly to businesses, families and individuals through various programs.   However, this money still benefited the state’s economy, by keeping families afloat and people employed during the pandemic's depths.   For a statement that is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, our rating is .
Statement: Citizens Property Insurance has "over $500 billion worth of risk, with less than $10 billion worth of surplus.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: May 8, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: state budget;weather
Context: comments to the press
Fact-check justification: Scott has said repeatedly that Citizens has more than $500 billion worth of risk, but about $6 billion in cash surplus. But the $500-billion number vastly overstates what Citizens might have to pay in even the most vicious storm season imaginable. And the $6-billion figure undercounts Citizens’ ability to pay claims. So those numbers are not the appropriate figures to use when determining whether the insurer "is going to be able to pay the bill" after a storm. More appropriate numbers would compare Citizens’ total claims-paying ability (about $19.5 billion) to the damage caused by a once-in-a-century kind of hurricane (about $21 billion).  Scott’s statement ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate his statement .
Statement: In 2011, (the Islamic State) attempted to attack Fort Knox.
Speaker: peter king
About the speaker: Peter King is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives serving a district in New York. He is a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee and the House Intelligence Committee.
Date: September 21, 2014
Location: national
Topics: terrorism
Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: King said, "In 2011, (the Islamic State) attempted to attack Fort Knox." There is no public account of such a plot and King’s office did not respond to us to provide any  to suggest a foiled domestic attack on Fort Knox. In 2011, two Iraqi nationals were arrested in Kentucky about 90 minutes outside Fort Knox for attempting to help al-Qaida of Iraq by sending weapons, explosives and money to insurgents fighting overseas. However, their efforts were actually part of an FBI sting operation, and they never helped or connected with al-Qaida groups operating in Iraq. The two ultimately pled guilty to multiple counts of terrorist activities; however, there was no mention of a domestic plot in any of the charging documents. No doubt this is a troubling case, but the public record does not back up King’s conclusions about it. We rate King’s statement .
Statement: Evidence is mounting that marijuana legalization reduces opioid addiction numbers.
Speaker: nate mcmurray
About the speaker: Nathan McMurray is supervisor of the town of Grand Island, New York. He is a Democrat running for a seat in the House of Representatives in the 27th District. 
Date: August 18, 2018
Location: new york
Topics: marijuana
Context: a statement on his campaign website
Fact-check justification: McMurray said " is mounting" that marijuana legalization reduces opioid addiction. He did not call it a proven fact, which may have led to a different ruling. There is  that in places where marijuana is legal, there are fewer opioid deaths and fewer opioid prescriptions. It's important to keep in mind that the change in number of prescriptions cannot be presumed to be a change in how many people overdose. Besides, overdoses from prescribed opioids is only one part of the crisis.  The National Institute on Drug Abuse has raised some red flags about drawing sweeping conclusions from the research and advises more studies are needed. McMurray's statement is accurate but needs additional information like what the institute provided, so we rate his statement .
Statement: In 1952, the corporate income tax accounted for 33 percent of all federal tax revenue. Today, despite record-breaking profits, corporate taxes bring in less than 9 percent.
Speaker: bernie sanders
About the speaker: Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
Date: August 27, 2014
Location: national
Topics: corporations;taxes
Context: a meme on social media
Fact-check justification: Sanders said, "In 1952, the corporate income tax accounted for 33 percent of all federal tax revenue. Today, despite record-breaking profits, corporate taxes bring in less than 9 percent." Sanders is right if you use the official numbers, but it’s worth noting that the figure for individual income taxes now includes a significant chunk of taxes assessed on corporate profits. That muddies the otherwise clear picture Sanders tries to paint. On balance, we rate his  .
Statement: One man opposed a flawed strategy in Iraq. One man had the courage to call for change. One man didn't play politics with the truth.
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 1, 2007
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: This new ad, which is running in New Hampshire and on his Web site, coupled with the message McCain is taking to campaign stops, is designed to put new emphasis on McCain's differences with an unpopular president over an unpopular war. With it, McCain hopes to turn a neat political trick: Supporting the overall policy, while reminding people that he would have done it differently. As for his  that just "one man" opposed the strategy in Iraq, that's a bit of a stretch: Independent experts and many congressional Democrats have lavished criticism on the administration's strategy in Iraq. But among his major Republican competitors for the presidential nomination, McCain is right. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has recently suggested that he, too, would take a different route in Iraq than the president, but McCain was clearly there first.
Statement: On HealthCare.Gov, Texan Mark Sullivan "found a good" health insurance "plan that includes dental, for less than $80 a month.
Speaker: kathleen sebelius
About the speaker: Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, was the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary from April 2009 through June 2014. She served as Governor of Kansas from 2003 to 2009.
Date: March 18, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: corrections and updates;health care
Context: the Austin American-Statesman
Fact-check justification: On HealthCare.Gov, Sebelius wrote, Texan Mark Sullivan "found a good" health insurance "plan that includes dental, for less than $80 a month." No doubt, Sullivan liked how things worked out for him. But Sebelius’ recap struck us as incomplete and . The secretary incorrectly described what Sullivan pays as covering both medical and dental coverage; the latter costs him about $15 more a month. The article also didn’t acknowledge that Sullivan’s monthly charge was fueled by an $82-a-month subsidy. Also, there was no concession that purchasers including Sullivan must pay $6,000 a year for medical procedures before the plan pitches in on such. We rate this statement as .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. CLARIFICATION, 4 p.m., March 24, 2014 : We removed an  reference to "hidden" cost in our section explaining our ruling above and clarified that the oped column celebrating the low out-of-pocket cost of Texan Mark Sullivan's combined medical-dental plans didn't including the substantive detail that the Austin purchaser would still face a $6,000 annual deductible for his medical coverage. This revision did not change our rating.
Statement: Says Bill Murray said "The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.
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 8, 2019
Topics: taxes;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Murray himself is notoriously hard-to-reach . But we did find the ice cream quote in one more place: on Twitter, where in March 2014 a Bill Murray parody account with the handle @billmurray tweeted it . "I AM NOT BILL MURRAY," the account’s bio says. "This account is not in any way affiliated with the actor Bill Murray." We rate this  .
Statement: Twitter caught leaking Donald Trump's private messages in undercover sting.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 11, 2018
Topics: criminal justice;ethics;fake news;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: We searched Google and Nexis and did not find any reports that Twitter was cooperating in this fashion with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into the 2016 election, although the company did meet with the Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss Russian bot accounts on its site. But even if we were to take Project Veritas’ video at face value, the Neon Nettle headline was . The video showed Twitter to be capable of granting access to Trump’s private messages — a capability that most technology companies maintain — but the company was not caught leaking them. Neon Nettle did not respond to a request for comment. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says her office "uncover(ed) $350 million in waste and fraud; it led to 40 criminal charges against both Republicans and Democrats.
Speaker: nicole galloway
About the speaker: Nicole Galloway, a Democrat, is state auditor of Missouri and a candidate for governor in 2020.
Date: August 12, 2019
Location: missouri
Topics: criminal justice;state budget
Context: her campaign announcement
Fact-check justification: Galloway said her office "uncover(ed) $350 million in waste and fraud; it led to 40 criminal charges against both Republicans and Democrats." Knowledgeable professionals agree that Auditor Galloway uncovers "waste and fraud," and individual examples of what Galloway has uncovered in her years as auditor indicate the $350 million total is reasonable. Galloway’s audits have resulted in over 50 criminal charges, making her  of 40 criminal counts accurate. However, while the last part of the  is technically  – charges have been brought against three Democrats and one Republican official – only four of the 19 individuals charged held partisan offices. For this reason, her  lacks important context.
Statement: Says Denzel Washington said, "I support police over BLM, don't put them down!
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 31, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: We live in America, and in America we have the freedom to express ourselves. We shouldn’t take that for granted. So whatever the movements are, whether you agree with them or don’t, they have the right to express themselves. So that’s one of the great things about being in this country, that you do have the right to protest." We rate this headline .
Statement: The proudest accomplishment (of my tenure) was leaving the state with a $1.2 billion surplus, which was the largest we'd ever had, and getting spending under control and a balanced budget.
Speaker: christine whitman
About the speaker: Christine Todd Whitman was New Jersey's 50th governor, serving from 1994 to 2001. She left the governor's office to become administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under then President George W. Bush. Today she is president of The Whitman Strategy Group.
Date: September 19, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: an interview on NJTV
Fact-check justification: Whitman says her proudest accomplishment as governor was leaving the state with a more than $1 billion surplus, controlling spending and balancing the budget. Her surplus number is accurate, and two financial experts tell us that basic government accounting principles do not include debt in budgets. Whitman’s former treasurer also claims the governor made traditional spending cuts during her tenure. But how is skipping payments to pension funds controlling spending if those and other bills aren’t being paid in full, or are being deferred to later administrations? We rate Whitman’s  .  To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Today, it is more difficult to enlist in the U.S. military than it is to enroll in college.
Speaker: dale kooyenga
About the speaker: Dale Kooyenga, born February 12, 1979, was elected as a Republican in the fall of 2010 to represent the 14th District for the Wisconsin State Assembly. He was re-elected in 2012. He lives in Brookfield in suburban Milwaukee. Kooyenga, an accountant, is part of the so-called "CPA Caucus" in the Assembly. He is a U.S. Army veteran of the Iraq War and earned a Bronze Star for his service, his official bio states.
Date: April 1, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;military;public health
Context: a constituent newsletter
Fact-check justification: But, the two sets of figures reinforce the point that, while Kooyenga’s  was broad, it really comes down to individual characteristics as to whether it’s more difficult for a person to get into the military versus college. Our rating Kooyenga said: "Today, it is more difficult to enlist in the U.S. military than it is to enroll in college." There isn’t definitive  to prove the , given that it mixes apples and oranges: The military and college are entirely different pursuits with different sets of minimum standards for getting in, and among colleges, the entrance requirements vary widely. At the same time, there are credible estimates saying that roughly 75 percent of young adults in America wouldn’t be eligible to enlist if they tried, while roughly two out of three high school graduates go on to a two- or four-year college. For a statement that is partially accurate, our rating is .
Statement: Gwinnett County government has made "significant cutbacks in staffing.
Speaker: charlotte nash
About the speaker: Charlotte Nash, a Republican, is a candidate for chair of Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners
Date: July 15, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: county budget;taxes
Context: at a commission meeting
Fact-check justification: So where does that leave us? Gwinnett County does have 67 fewer employees and 90,000 more residents now than it did in 2008. In better times, the county likely would have added 100 to 200 new employees a year to meet the demands of a growing population. But it’s probably a stretch to say the cutback in employees is "significant" given the downsizing that’s occurred across the public and private sectors. We rate her statement as .
Statement: US: Change in Income, 2009-13. Top 1%: +31.4%. Bottom 99%: +0.4%.
Speaker: ian bremmer
About the speaker: Ian Bremmer is president and founder of the Eurasia Group, an international research and consulting firm, as well as a professor at New York University.
Date: January 4, 2014
Topics: economy;punditfact
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Bremmer tweeted that in the United States, the top 1 percent of earners saw their income increase by 31.4 percent between 2009 and 2013, compared to 0.4 percent for the bottom 99 percent. He took those numbers from the respected, long-running analysis of income inequality by Piketty and Saez, but this research is not the only way to look at the question. Taking into account taxes and transfer payments would reduce -- though likely not eliminate -- the difference in income gains between the 1 percent and the 99 percent. In addition, Bremmer acknowledged that his phrasing about the time frame for the data could have been clearer. His statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: Five years ago, when I took office, our state was mired in debt - a $2.4 billion debt left over by Republicans.
Speaker: terry mcauliffe
About the speaker: Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, was elected governor of Virginia on Nov. 5, 2013. He received 47.8 percent of the vote in defeating Republican Ken Cuccinelli, who came in at 45.2 percent. Robert Sarvis, a Libertarian, finished a distant third with 6.5 percent.
McAuliffe's inaguration as Virginia's 72nd governor is scheduled on Jan. 11, 2014.
McAuliffe, a wealthy businessman and noted political fundraiser, was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and chairman of Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2008. In 2009, McAuliffe unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Virginia governor.
McAuliffe was born in Syracuse, N.Y., on Feb. 9, 1957. He has a bachelor's degree from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. McAuliffe has lived in Fairfax County for more than 20 years, is married and has five children.
 
Date: June 18, 2019
Location: virginia
Topics: state budget
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: McAuliffe said, "Five years ago, when I took office, our state was mired in debt - a $2.4 billion debt left over by Republicans." That’s just . McAuliffe inherited balanced budget proposals from McDonnell in 2014 - as required by the state constitution. Perhaps, McDonnell should have seen approaching clouds and proposed a more conservative spending plan. But financial projections are tricky. When McAuliffe sensed an economic slowdown during his first weeks in office, he made a modest $140 million cut to McDonnell’s revenue forecast and said he was sticking with the "underlying economic forecast" predicating McDonnell’s budgets. Six months later, McAuliffe was projecting a $2.4 billion shortfall. McAuliffe is hardly the first governor to accuse his predecessor of leaving behind a financial mess. But  shows the brunt of the shortfall, though not McAuliffe’s fault, occurred during his watch. No doubt, McAuliffe faced tough financial conditions. But he did not  inherit a $2.4 billion deficit from Republicans, as he’s been saying for years. We rate his statement .
Statement: More than 60 percent of people in America support Planned Parenthood and only 11 percent approve of Congress.
Speaker: cecile richards
About the speaker: According to the biographical sketch posted online by Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, previously worked as deputy chief of staff for House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. In 2004, she founded and served as president of America Votes, a coalition of 42 national grassroots organizations working to maximize registration, education, and voter participation. She began her career organizing low-wage workers in the hotel, health care, and janitorial industries throughout California, Louisiana and Texas.
Date: December 15, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: abortion;congress
Context: an interview by actress Lena Dunham
Fact-check justification: Richards said that more than 60 percent of people in America support Planned Parenthood, and only 11 percent approve of Congress. Richards had a bead on Congress, which was wallowing in 11-percent approval territory in November 2015. In addition, most polls suggested more than 60 percent of Americans opposed the federal defunding of Planned Parenthood. Still, there’s clarification missing. While more people look favorably on Planned Parenthood than not, polls indicated, that was the opinion of 40 percent to 53 percent of Americans--not more than 60 percent. We rate Richards’ statement .  – 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: Austin ISD has the highest graduation rate of every major city in Texas.
Speaker: austin independent school district
About the speaker: The Austin Independent School District serves Austin, the state capital.
Date: June 2, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: children;education
Context: an advertisement spotted at the site of high school graduation ceremonies
Fact-check justification: The Austin district says it has the "highest graduation rate of every major city in Texas." This declaration is rooted in the faulty premise that Texas has only five major cities and only the districts named for those cities are worthy of comparison. Applying those filters gives the statement an element of . On the other hand, we identified other districts in the same cities with higher graduation rates than the Austin district. We’re flipping the -O-Meter’s tassel and rating this  .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: We have cut "our deficits by almost three-quarters.
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: January 12, 2016
Location: national
Topics: deficit;economy
Context: the State of the Union address
Fact-check justification: Obama said we have cut "our deficits by almost three-quarters." The numbers check out if you start with fiscal year 2009, his first year in office. But it’s worth remembering that 2009 had a historically high deficit, and that projections show the deficit increasing again in just a couple years. We rate the  .