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Statement: Governor Rauner has called every year for eliminating funding for afterschool programs for at-risk youth, homeless prevention services and programs that help autistic children.
Speaker: jacqueline collins 
About the speaker: Jacqueline Collins is an Illinois state Senator from Chicago representing the state's 16th District. 
Date: February 24, 2017
Location: illinois
Context: an email newsletter
Fact-check justification: In an email newsletter, state Sen. Jacqueline Collins accused Gov. Bruce Rauner of calling for the elimination of "funding for afterschool programs for at-risk youth, homeless prevention services and programs that help autistic children" each year he's been in office. A Democratic staffer pointed to five instances where Rauner proposed cuts or freezes to these three programs. We verified these instances by looking at Rauner’s current and former budget proposals, a vetoed bill and news stories.     Rauner has proposed budgets that would eliminate funding in the areas Collins cites. But his 2015 veto of a bill that contained autism funding was in the context of rejecting 19 budget bills on the grounds that the entire package was unbalanced. His veto message did not specifically mention eliminating autism funding. Rather, he said he was vetoing several bills because he wanted structural reforms as part of a balanced budget which majority Democrats did not send him. Collins’ statement is accurate, but needs clarification and additional information. We rate Collins’  .
Statement: Trump and McConnell are blocking stimulus checks for Americans married to immigrants.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 23, 2020
Topics: immigration;economy;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post said, "Trump and McConnell are blocking stimulus checks for Americans married to immigrants." The post wrongly makes it seem as if the law providing the stimulus payment was a doing only of Republicans. The CARES Act passed with bipartisan support. Not all Americans married to immigrants are barred from getting a stimulus check. That applies to couples that filed a joint tax return, one using a Social Security number and the other using an ITIN. That exempts military families. If a couple files tax returns separately, the spouse who filed with a Social Security number is eligible for the payment. The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: (Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the Department of Education and send all the education issues back to the states.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: January 23, 2012
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;education;states
Context: Tampa, Fla
Fact-check justification: Gingrich did vote to establish the Education Department. But he didn't say in a September debate that lawmakers should get rid of it. However, Gingrich's record includes some support for Romney's larger point, that the long-time Washington politician has adapted his positions on education and the Education Department. We rate Romney's statement .
Statement: Says a celebrity praises locals for their help after an automotive breakdown.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 5, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: an Internet post
Fact-check justification: Tom Hanks got a flat tire in Kennewick, Wash. ; Harrison Ford’s car overheated in Mandan, N.D. ; Miley Cyrus broke down in Hollister, Calif . Other celebrities helped by gentle townsfolk after some bad luck include Jennifer Aniston , Morgan Freeman , Woody Harrelson , Adam Levine , Matthew McConaughey and Bruce Willis . There are scads of small towns and suburbs named as the location of these hapless incidents. Needless to say, there is no  that any of these celebs had car trouble in any of these places or subsequently praised locals for help. We rate these claims !
Statement: Says Attorney General William Barr tweeted that the US "gave Iran USA taxpayer dollars" so Iran could purchase uranium from Russia.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 13, 2019
Topics: fake news;iran;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (In 2018, President Donald Trump pulled out of the deal). That’s the money the United States "gave" Iran (it wasn’t tax dollars). The reference to Russia stems from an often misunderstood sale of a U.S. uranium company to a Russian business . The two events are in no way linked. We rate this misattributed tweet !
Statement: Says "Muhammad owned many slaves" while Robert E. Lee was "against slavery.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 19, 2018
Topics: history;human rights;islam;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says that the prophet Muhammad owned many slaves while Robert E. Lee was against slavery. Both men owned slaves. Meanwhile, Lee, besides serving as commander of the army that fought to uphold slavery, imposed harsh punishments when his slaves disobeyed and said he thought the "painful discipline" was necessary for the "instruction of the race," and that the end of slavery would come when God willed it.  While Lee made some mixed statements on his feelings toward slavery, his actions and political positions contradict that he opposed it. We rate this post .
Statement: Graduation rates in Buffalo's school district, which were "around 48 percent are now up to 64 percent" since Say Yes Buffalo launched.
Speaker: byron brown
About the speaker: Byron Brown is the mayor of the city of Buffalo. He is a Democrat.
Date: January 30, 2017
Location: new york
Topics: education
Context: a state budget hearing on local governments
Fact-check justification: Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said graduation rates, once "around 48 percent are now up to 64 percent" in Buffalo’s school district since the Say Yes program began in Buffalo. Brown is right that graduation rates have improved since the program was first offered to graduates in 2013. Close to 47 percent graduated the year before the Say Yes program was first offered, and the graduation rate through August 2016 is 64 percent according to data released today. We rate his  as . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/ad3583b7-e18a-4a1b-8d6d-9b1bf51f69a9
Statement: In Wisconsin's school voucher program, "two-thirds of the money" in the "tax vouchers" went to people "making more than $100,000.
Speaker: mark pocan
About the speaker: Mark Pocan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2nd Congressional District on Nov. 6, 2012. He is from Madison and previously served as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin state Assembly. 
Date: May 24, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;poverty;state budget;urban;taxes
Context: a hearing
Fact-check justification: That amounted to about $388 per filer. But the tax break has nothing to do with the voucher program. Our rating While criticizing Wisconsin’s school voucher program, Pocan said "two-thirds of the money" in Wisconsin’s school "tax vouchers" went to people "making more than $100,000." But a tax break Pocan alludes to -- for people who themselves pay to send their kids to private schools -- has nothing to do with Wisconsin’s voucher program, which uses tax dollars to pay for low-income children to attend private schools. We rate the statement .
Statement: Almost half a million people are still eligible (for DACA), particularly in the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: August 15, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a post on Medium
Fact-check justification: In a Medium post, Clinton said, "experts estimate almost half a million people are still eligible (for DACA), particularly in the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community." Researchers have estimated the number of eligible DACA recipients might be around 1.3 million to 1.7 million people, with immigration officials having accepted about 820,000 applications. Based on varying estimates, that leaves about 500,000 to nearly 900,000 people who can still apply. Immigration advocates and scholars have said Asian American and Pacific Islander application rates are lower compared to other populations, likely due to lack of information. We rate Clinton’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/3a0188dc-1fd5-4886-9ab0-3646af62b99d
Statement: We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush.
Speaker: sheila jackson lee
About the speaker: Sheila Jackson Lee has represented Houston in the U.S. House of Representatives since she was first elected in 1994.
Date: July 30, 2014
Location: national
Topics: congress;legal issues
Context: a House floor speech
Fact-check justification: Jackson Lee said, "We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush." She has a point that neither the House nor a majority of the Democratic caucus sought Bush’s impeachment. However, a dozen Democratic lawmakers did -- including Jackson Lee herself. It seems hypocritical of the congresswoman to seize the moral high ground -- essentially saying that her party gallantly went against self-interest by declining to seek Bush’s impeachment -- when in fact she personally had sought precisely that outcome. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: Says Texas colleges and universities may opt to allow guns on campuses.
Speaker: eddie rodriguez
About the speaker: Eddie Rodriguez has represented Austin since he was first elected to the Texas House in 2002.
Date: February 22, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: education;guns
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Yet he also noted that firearms aren’t restricted by law from school streets, sidewalks and parking areas. Strickland declined to comment on whether colleges and universities can allow concealed handgun holders to bring their guns into other areas of campus. "We have not had occasion to look at that issue thoroughly," he said. Our take: State law allows higher-ed institutions to permit weapons, though concealed handguns are prohibited from sporting and interscholastic events. We rate Rodriguez’s statement .
Statement: During the Nixon Watergate investigation, "out of courtesy, the FBI started reporting to the Department of Justice. But there was nothing official.
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: July 19, 2017
Location: national
Topics: legal issues
Context: an interview with the New York Times
Fact-check justification: Trump said "out of courtesy, the FBI started reporting to the Department of Justice" in the course of the Watergate investigation, and that there was "nothing official." Justice Department annual reports dating from the birth of the FBI and the organizational structure of the Justice Department show that Trump is . During Watergate, the FBI reported to the Attorney General’s Office because that is what it was created to do. It was not a matter of courtesy. Trump’s ability to hire and fire the FBI director gives him ultimate authority over the conduct of the FBI director, but that's separate from the reporting obligations of the bureau to the Justice Department. We rate this  .
Statement: John F. Kennedy está vivo.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 16, 2023
Topics: politifact en español
Context: una publicación en Instagram
Fact-check justification: Nuestro veredicto Un video en Instagram dice que John F. Kennedy está vivo. El video alega que Kennedy fingió su muerte y tomó la identidad de un veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pero no hay evidencia de que él siga vivo. Kennedy murió en 1963 y fue enterrado en el Cementerio Nacional de Arlington. Calificamos lo que dice esta publicación como Ridículo y Falso.
Statement: ISIS camp a few miles from Texas, Mexican authorities confirm.
Speaker: judicial watch
About the speaker: Judicial Watch is a conservative group that litigates on public corruption and other issues.
Date: April 14, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;military;terrorism
Context: a web item
Fact-check justification: Judicial Watch said it confirmed ISIS has a camp in Mexico a few miles from El Paso. U.S., Mexico and Texas officials told us they had no information to validate or corroborate this bombshell. Lacking any on-the-record indication of the 's accuracy, we rate it .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal went from President Barack Obama's desk to "the garbage can.
Speaker: jon huntsman
About the speaker: Jon Huntsman was the governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009. He served as ambassador to China from 2009 to 2011. He is a Republican candidate for president in 2012. 
Date: January 8, 2012
Location: national
Topics: deficit;federal budget;new hampshire 2012
Context: Concord, N.H
Fact-check justification: Huntsman used a metaphor to describe what happened to the deficit reduction proposal. "The Simpson-Bowles bipartisan proposal lands right on the desk of Barack Obama, and it lands in the garbage can," he said. But our research shows that, while he didn't embrace the entire document, some of its ideas emerged in Obama's budget proposals released more than a month later. We rate Huntsman's  .
Statement: Hillary Clinton "supports unlimited abortion on demand up until the moment of birth, including partial-birth abortion, with taxpayer funding.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: September 24, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: abortion
Context: responding to an audience member's question at the Texas Tribune Festival
Fact-check justification: Cruz said Clinton "supports unlimited abortion on demand up until the moment of birth, including partial-birth abortion, with taxpayer funding." Clinton clearly supports a woman’s right to choose an abortion and she’s called for ending congressional restrictions on Medicaid funding of abortions. However, she’s said since 2000 that she’d support a legislated late-term limit on abortion if it included an exception to protect the health of the woman--which the law against partial-birth abortions does not. She hasn't pitched for unlimited abortion on demand. We rate this statement .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says Beto O'Rourke "voted against" Hurricane Harvey "tax relief.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: August 28, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: natural disasters ;taxes
Context: an online video ad
Fact-check justification: Cruz said O’Rourke irresponsibly voted against tax relief for Hurricane Harvey victims. O’Rourke voted against the proposal delivering tax relief though Cruz's statement, suggesting a didn't-care attitude, leaves unsaid that O’Rourke offered some reasons for his opposition and had voted for direct aid to victims. We rate this  .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Romney left Massachusetts "with a $245-million debt because of the big government-mandated health care system.
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: January 30, 2008
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: Simi Valley, Calif
Fact-check justification: It did not leave the state in debt. Yes, the program is costing more than expected. Some might call it a victim of its own success. And in noting how much more the program is expected to cost, McCain fails to note how much the program is projected to save. We rate his  .
Statement: The death rate for fully vaccinated people is significantly higher than non-vaccinated [people].
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: April 24, 2021
Location: california
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The post also includes a screenshot of a Tweet to  that "the CDC has reported 7,157 fully vaccinated Americans have contracted COVID-19, 88 have died." The figures on breakthrough infections are real — in fact, there are now more than 9,000 recorded cases, which have resulted in 132 deaths. But it is widely  to use these numbers as  that vaccines are dangerous and ineffective, and the post leaves out crucial facts about breakthrough infections.   We rate this statement as .  – The statement is not accurate.
Statement: Says "2,267 caravan invaders have tuberculosis, HIV, chickenpox and other health issues
Speaker: puppetstringnews.com
About the speaker: A website associated with fake news.
Date: November 29, 2018
Topics: immigration;fake news;homeland security;public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: (Here are the facts on who’s part of the migrant caravan.) Puppet String News did not respond to a request for comment. Its headline claiming "2,267 caravan invaders have tuberculosis, HIV, chickenpox and other health issues" is . The headline contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Video proves "space is fake.
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: September 6, 2022
Topics: space;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: They could even see the planet’s round shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse." Today scientists use GPS and satellites to measure Earth’s size and shape.   We rate claims that this video proves space is  !   RELATED : NASA photos of the moon and Earth show that "space is . "
Statement: Since President Obama took office, "2 million jobs. Gone.
Speaker: republican national committee
About the speaker: The Republican National Committee is the national arm of the Republican Party.
Date: July 7, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;jobs;message machine 2010
Context: a television commercial
Fact-check justification: The RNC figure -- 2 million jobs gone -- actually underplays the number of jobs lost since  Obama took office. But it also ignores the trend line which has bobbed up and down but is headed upward, albeit slowly. That there are 1 million more jobs now than a year ago is an additional piece of information that provides clarification. Whether the administration is doing enough toward recovery is a policy debate we leave to others. But on the -O-Meter, a statement like this one that is accurate but needs some clarification rates .
Statement: Ballots recovered from a Santa Clara County, California, ravine are evidence of "how the left cheats to win.
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: November 13, 2022
Location: california
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The ballots were discovered in the ravine among other nonelection mail. The U.S. Postal Service is investigating the incident, and the registrar referred the matter to the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office, which is coordinating with the Postal Service, the press release said.   We found no  suggesting that the abandoned ballots were part of a Democratic scheme to steal the election, as the post suggests.   We don’t yet know how and why the ballots wound up in the ravine, but to  that it displays how the left "cheats to win" is unfounded. We rate this post .