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Statement: We will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions, very importantly.
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: May 9, 2019
Topics: health care;health check
Context: comments delivered during a White House event on surprise medical bills
Fact-check justification: Furthermore, the administration has not put forth any plan that might keep those guarantees in place. Every replacement health bill it has endorsed has offered protections less generous than those offered by the ACA. And it has taken further steps that could make it harder for people with preexisting conditions to get affordable coverage. This statement is not accurate and makes a  in direct opposition of what’s actually happening. We rate it .
Statement: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott "cut $211 million in mental health funding.
Speaker: gavin newsom
About the speaker: Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California in 2018. He is the state's former lieutenant governor and served as mayor of San Francisco. He is a Democrat.
Date: May 7, 2023
Location: national
Topics: state budget;coronavirus;texas
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Newsom said Abbott "cut $211 million in mental health funding." In April 2022, Abbott said that about $495 million would be transferred out of six state agencies to support the state’s border program. The transfer included about $210.7 million from the state Health and Human Services Commission over two years. Abbott’s letter said that appropriations had been "fully funded with other sources" but didn’t identify those sources. However, some news outlets identified those sources and found Texas swapped out state money with federal COVID-19 relief dollars. That’s why it is  to call what Abbott did a "cut." We rate this statement .  RELATED : A recent report put Texas last among states and DC in mental health care access RELATED : Experts disagree with Abbott that it’s unconstitutional to raise the minimum age to purchase AR RELATED : Gavin Newsom is  right, the US gun homicide rate is 26 times higher than ‘peers’
Statement: USDA is predicting egg prices will be $12 a dozen by fall 2022.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 6, 2022
Topics: food;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says, "BREAKING NEWS: "USDA is predicting egg prices will be $12 a dozen by Fall 2022."  USDA did not make that prediction, according to a spokeswoman. The agency does not publish retail egg prices. As of last month, egg prices were $2.52 per dozen, and the price is expected to increase between 19.5 and 20.5% in 2022. That is well below $12 per dozen eggs. We rate whether the USDA made such a prediction .
Statement: The music industry is the biggest export from Africa after oil and gas.
Speaker: d’banj
About the speaker: D’Banj is a Nigerian popstar and an ambassador for the ONE Campaign.
Date: August 3, 2014
Topics: ebola;economy;foreign policy;pop culture;punditfact
Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: D’Banj said, "The music industry is the biggest export from Africa after oil and gas." Africa has a good story to tell about its music, but that doesn't mean it's a major export.  In fact, the entire entertainment sector comprised less than 0.1 percent of Africa’s export revenue, far behind other sectors like agriculture and mineral products. Experts said the reported revenue may be less than the actual numbers though, due to the lack of a reporting and distribution infrastructure in Africa. But it wouldn't be enough to make a significant different. We rate D’Banj's  .
Statement: Photo shows Joe Biden next to a man seen in a sex sting video.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 5, 2020
Location: national
Topics: privacy issues;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims to show Biden standing next to a man who it says is shown in a video attempting to solicit sex from a minor. That’s . The man in the photo is the father of a young girl who sang at a political event in 2018.  The video in the post was uploaded by a YouTube account that claims to catch people as they try to solicit underage sex. While the video identifies the man as a former candidate for state office in Massachusetts, we find no conclusive  to support that .  We rate this ! PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: U.S. taxpayers paid $71,500 per job created by the stimulus bill.
Speaker: lou dobbs
About the speaker: Lou Dobbs is a television host on Fox Business Network. He was formerly the host of CNN’s ‘Lou Dobbs Tonight’.
Date: October 15, 2009
Location: national
Topics: economy;pundits;stimulus
Context: on his television show
Fact-check justification: But secondly, the math may be overly simple. Just because the government has handed out $2.2 billion in stimulus funding doesn't mean every penny has been used to create jobs. It could be used to purchase materials such as asphalt and concrete. So, while he's in the ballpark, it's a somewhat incomplete picture. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is planning to cut off the electricity "so Virginia residents cannot reveal what is happening once gun confiscation begins to take place.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 16, 2019
Topics: facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In an email, Alena Yarmosky, Northam’s press secretary, said that it is "absolutely ." "People who spread lies like this should be ashamed of themselves," she said. We reached out to Turner for more  to support his site’s , but we haven’t heard back. The Facebook posts are  and make a  . We rate it !
Statement: There are approximately 18,000 (police) departments in the United States.
Speaker: charles ramsey
About the speaker: Charles Ramsey is the former police commissioner of Philadelphia.
Date: July 10, 2016
Topics: criminal justice;crime;punditfact
Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Ramsey said that the country has about 18,000 departments that conduct some sort of policing. In the broadest sense, that is accurate. If you include every college campus security department, tribal land unit, sheriff office, local police department, state police, and every federal agency, you get to 17,985. In terms of the most common local law enforcement agencies, that is sheriff and local police departments, the number is about 15,400. These are the ones where the issue of deadly encounters between police and citizens is front and center. Ramsey was making the case that when it comes to policing, small often is not beautiful, and plenty of  backs that up. But for the problem facing the country, the smaller number is most applicable. We rate his statement .
Statement: The GOP budget plan "would cut nearly a million jobs.
Speaker: organizing for america
About the speaker: Organizing for American was created from Barack Obama's campaign organization after the election of 2008. It is an advocacy group affiliated with the Democratic National Committee.
Date: March 14, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: economy;federal budget;jobs
Context: a Tweet
Fact-check justification: And Republicans have brought forward a number of economists who say spending reductions would increase employment.    Democrats -- and the economists they cite -- may be right when they say the GOP’s proposed  cuts would cost large numbers of jobs. But they are basing their reports on economic projections, not guarantees. Just as we said when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor declared lower spending would create more private sector jobs , no one knows for sure. Therefore we rate OFA’s job cut claims .
Statement: Photo shows a "Palestinian boy cleaning his own family's blood.
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 14, 2021
Topics: israel;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) That’s because this photo has been online for years . More than nine years ago, a Jerusalem-based photographer named Rj Stitt posted it to a photo sharing platform called 500px with this caption: "Palestinian kid cleaning up after the slaughter of a cow in his parents’ slaughterhouse. "  The photographer identified the location as Ramallah, a town in the West Bank, and gave details about the camera used to take the picture.   We rate claims that this photo shows a boy cleaning up his family’s blood amid recent violence in Gaza .
Statement: Says that to drive the length of the newly drawn 15th District "you'd find yourself on the road as long as it would take to drive from Columbus to Niagara Falls.
Speaker: chris redfern
About the speaker: Chris Redfern is chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, a post he has held since December 2005.
Date: September 15, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: elections;redistricting
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: But then again, we can award points for context because the  supports Redfern’s larger point -- that the boundaries for this sprawling district were drawn to achieve a political purpose. Lastly, it needs to be said that Redfern’s route is not the way that Stivers or anyone would travel from one part of the district to another. Rather, they would choose a direct route that crosses district boundaries and would be a much shorter drive. That’s a point that provides clarification. On the -O-Meter, we rate Redfern’s  .
Statement: Ohio is doing better right now than the national average on all the (economic) numbers.
Speaker: keith faber
About the speaker: State Rep. Keith Faber is running for state auditor in 2018. His hometown is Celina, in western Ohio.
Date: January 7, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: economy
Context: a newspaper interview
Fact-check justification: Faber's point about Ohio doing better than average is backed up by what experts have told PolitiFact Ohio are key figures -- unemployment and job creation -- and they are the ones he cited. Other figures, however, show Ohioans have lost ground economically and trail national averages. Faber’s statement is partially accurate. But even allowing for political hyperbole, a statement that "all" of Ohio’s economic numbers are outpacing averages for the nation omits or overlooks important information. On the -O-Meter, his statement rates as .
Statement: Chris Christie "has not increased the taxes on anyone.
Speaker: kim guadagno
About the speaker: Kim Guadagno is the Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey.
Date: October 8, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: taxes
Context: Carlstadt
Fact-check justification: Guadagno said about Christie in a speech to supporters in Carlstadt, ""He has not increased the taxes on anyone." It’s  that the governor has not increased the rate of taxation for New Jersey’s three biggest revenue generators: the gross income, business and sales taxes. But it’s also  that he has cut tax credit programs that resulted in some New Jerseyans having less money to pay their tax bills. In the eyes of some experts, that’s still a tax increase. We rate Guadagno’s  . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Governor Palin is the most popular governor in the country.
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: September 3, 2008
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a campaign news release
Fact-check justification: "But generally, they are on pretty solid ground. If I was a betting person, I bet that's an accurate statement. Once your approval rating is over 80 percent, it's a little silly." Bottom line, most experts say the McCain campaign is probably right. We rate it .
Statement: Eighty-three law enforcement officers have died in the line of duty this year. Twenty-four of them were shot and killed in cold blood.
Speaker: casey cagle
About the speaker: Casey Cagle, a Republican, is the lieutenant governor of Georgia
Date: September 8, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: criminal justice;crime;public safety;public service;guns
Context: press release
Fact-check justification: Our conclusion:  In the days leading up to the 9/11 anniversary, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle issued a press release, urging Georgians to stop to reflect on the critical role that law enforcement officers play in our communities. "Eighty-three law enforcement officers have died in the line of duty this year. Twenty-four of them were shot and killed in cold blood," he said. His numbers come from a group that works to diligently track data and pay tribute to law enforcement officers who die in the line of duty. We rate Cagle’s statement .
Statement: The FBI uncovered "256 texts between Adam Schiff and Jeffrey Epstein
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 9, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The site is run by a man named Christopher Blair, who has been publishing fabricated stories for years and says his goal is to trick conservatives into sharing  claims on social media. RELATED: If you're fooled by  news, this man probably wrote it Blair’s headlines are often copied and shared in Facebook posts without any disclaimer, leading people to believe the fictitious posts. That’s what happened in this case. !
Statement: The Americans for Tax Reform pledge "relates to new taxes that were going to be initiated by legislative action.
Speaker: nathan deal
About the speaker: Nathan Deal is running for Georgia governor in 2010.
Date: June 13, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: taxes
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: "By vocally supporting T-SPLOST, he certainly isn’t holding up the first half of his commitment." ATR knows the meaning of the pledge better than anyone. It says Deal is  about his interpretation. We agree. Our rating: .
Statement: Wisconsin is "49th in the country in internet speed.
Speaker: mike mccabe
About the speaker: Mike McCabe, of Madison, is running for the Democratic nomination for governor of Wisconsin in 2018. He was executive director of the non-profit Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, which tracks money in state politics.
Date: April 18, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: states;technology
Context: a podcast
Fact-check justification: He said his main point was that Wisconsin’s goal should be to have high-speed internet access everywhere. Our rating McCabe claimed that Wisconsin ranks 49th in internet speed. A 2016 ranking put Wisconsin at 49th-slowest for broadband internet speed -- that is, for land-based internet, but that only provides a partial picture. When mobile is factored in, the state ranks much higher, in the neighborhood of 30th place. We rate McCabe’s  .
Statement: This town (Wilmington, Ohio) hasn't taken any money from the government. They don't want any money from the government.
Speaker: glenn beck
About the speaker: Glenn Beck is the host of The Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show. He also hosts an Internet-based TV show. Beck formerly hosted a television talk show on CNN Headline News and then Fox News.
Date: November 22, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;families;jobs;pundits
Context: his radio broadcast
Fact-check justification: My job is to get whatever assistance I can get for the citizens here and to help create jobs for them." So where does all this leave Beck’s premise that Wilmington is a place that shuns government help? Beck took enough literary license in his holiday tale to make Frank Capra blush. His statement isn’t just . It’s also  enough to earn a Politifact rating of .
Statement: President Obama has left the U.S. with the lowest number of active-duty troops since before World War II, putting the nation at risk.
Speaker: jack kingston
About the speaker: Jack Kingston, a Republican, is a former U.S. Representative from Georgia and a political commentator.
Date: May 12, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: military
Context: Campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Changing technologies and strategies for deployment make the comparison to the pre-Pearl Harbor days a bit of a stretch. The reduction of active troops has a clear effect on the scope of missions the United States can take on globally. But whether citizens at home are seeing a greater risk is less clear. Though Kingston’s ad contains some  there is a lot of context missing. We rate Kingston’s  .
Statement: Unlike California, we in Florida welcome driverless cars - no permit required.
Speaker: jeff brandes
About the speaker: Jeff Brandes, a Republican who represents St. Petersburg, was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2010 and was first elected to the Florida Senate in 2012. 
Date: December 22, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: technology
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Brandes tweeted, "Unlike California, we in Florida welcome driverless cars - no permit required." Florida does not require a permit to operate driverless cars. California requires companies that are testing such cars to get a permit. Although Florida law welcomes driverless cars, we found no  that they are commonly used in Florida. Brandes’ comment is accurate, and we rate it .
Statement: A (state) trooper with 10 years on the force is getting $500 a year more than a trooper with 10 minutes on the force.
Speaker: thomas garrett jr.
About the speaker: Thomas A. Garrett Jr., a Republican, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 5th Congressional District in 2016. He was in Virginia's Senate from 2012 to 2016. He has served as an assistant state attorney general and Commonwealth's attorney for Louisa County.
Garrett was born in Atlanta and is a graduate of Louisa County High School in Virginia. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Richmond.
 
Date: January 11, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: public safety
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Garrett said "trooper with 10 years on the force is getting $500 a year more than a trooper with 10 minutes on the force." In reality, the veteran trooper got a 12 percent raise after a year on the force. And last year’s budget provides a trooper with a decade on the force an added annual salary increase of $2,280. Altogether, that means a well-performing trooper who has been on the force a decade would earn $6,555 more than a rookie.   We’re not weighing in on whether the state adequately pays its veteran troopers. But Garrett is using an  number to make the point that Virginia falls short. We rate his  .
Statement: About 750,000 people die in China each year from auto emissions.
Speaker: nancy pelosi
About the speaker: Rep. Nancy Pelosi represents a district in California. She served as speaker of the U.S. House January 2019-2021. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.
Date: October 5, 2009
Location: national
Topics: environment;foreign policy;transportation
Context: an interview on the Charlie Rose Show
Fact-check justification: (When we inquired, the World Bank declined to directly address the statistics.) So even if the World Bank data is correct, Pelosi misinterpreted it by saying that all those deaths are related to auto emissions. On top of that, the World Health Organization estimates that most pollution-related deaths are the result of indoor pollutants (those coal and wood fires we mentioned above), not outdoor ones. So while Pelosi is correct that air pollution is harmful and may be responsible for many deaths in China, she's  to say that auto emissions are specifically responsible for 750,000 of them annually. We rate her  .
Statement: While the government grew, we lost more than 2 million jobs.
Speaker: michele bachmann
About the speaker: Michele Bachmann, first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, represents the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was reelected in 2008. Previously, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. Prior to that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.
Date: January 25, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;federal budget;history
Context: a rebuttal to the State of the Union address
Fact-check justification: So where does this leave us? When measured in two common ways, Bachmann is  about government jobs increasing, but she’s right using a third, less intuitive measurement -- that is, for federal employment not including the U.S. Postal Service. As for total employment, she’s off by quite a bit if you begin the clock in May 2009, but you only have to move the time frame back by three months in order to meet her 2 million threshold. So one part of her statement is untrue except by one uncommon measurement, and the other part is  if the starting date is May 2009 but accurate counting from February 2009 and in tune with the general trend since the start of Obama’s term. On balance, we rate her comment .
Statement: Says "Barack Obama is apparently not for vetting people and saying just anybody can come" to the United States.
Speaker: glenn grothman
About the speaker: Republican Glenn Grothman, of the Town of Glenbeulah in Sheboygan County, was first elected to Congress in 2014 after serving 21 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. He represents the 6th Congressional District in east-central Wisconsin that includes all or parts of Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Fond du Lac, Dodge, Winnebago, Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties.  
 
Date: November 20, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: homeland security;terrorism
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: "No level of vetting would get you to 100 percent." Our rating Grothman said, "Barack Obama is apparently not for vetting people and saying just anybody can come" to the United States. But refugees are the most vetted people who enter the country -- and Syrian refugees already  face additional measures. What’s more, Grothman’s  didn’t back up his . We rate the  .
Statement: The House of Delegates budget bill "cuts $50 million from education.
Speaker: virginia senate democratic caucus
About the speaker: Democrats elected to serve in the State Senate.
Date: February 10, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: corrections and updates;education;state budget
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: That would likely result in less money going into classrooms, which sounds like a cut to us. We rate the  . Correction: This statement was originally attributed to the Democratic Party of Virginia. It was in fact published by the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus.