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Statement: Hillary on child aliens in 2014: Send them back.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: December 17, 2018
Topics: immigration;homeland security;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Text for a video circulating on Facebook claims, "Hillary on child aliens in 2014: Send them back." Clinton during a 2014 CNN interview responded to a question about children arriving at the border. At the time, there was a surge of children arriving alone, without their parents. Clinton said that children should be sent back to responsible adults in their home countries, but noted that there were concerns about the plausibility of sending all of them back. The Facebook post is is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it .
Statement: If you get pulled over driving in Florida and your license is from Vermont, Delaware, RI, Connecticut or Hawaii, your license is invalid.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: July 10, 2023
Location: florida
Context: a TikTok post
Fact-check justification: A TikTok post said, "If you get pulled over driving in Florida and your license is from Vermont, Delaware, RI, Connecticut or Hawaii, your license is invalid."  This  is missing important context as the law applies only to licenses marked "not for federal identification" or "driving privileges only." Standard licenses for citizens and immigrants legally in the U.S. will continue being accepted.  These invalidated drive-only licenses are given specifically to immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally. Currently, only those specific licenses from Connecticut, Delaware and Hawaii are flagged as invalid by Florida’s motor vehicles agency. We rate this post .  RELATED : Ron DeSantis’ once-slim immigration agenda is now a focal point of his 2024 presidential bid
Statement: Says President Abraham Lincoln enforced the Fugitive Slave Act until the Civil War ended.
Speaker: andrew napolitano
About the speaker: Andrew Napolitano is a Fox News political commentator and legal analyst.
Date: March 11, 2014
Topics: history;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of "The Daily Show"
Fact-check justification: Napolitano said Lincoln, his marshals and his judges enforced the Fugitive Slave Act until the war was over. The record is much more complicated. Lincoln and other federal officials did enforce the law in some instances in the Union states in the early part of the war but not in every state and not consistently. The policy was quite different for the Confederate states. In that same period, Lincoln’s military and Congress moved to protect slaves who escaped from Confederate owners. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation mid-way through the war, freeing all slaves in Confederate states. Napolitano repeated the word "enforced" three times for emphasis. The record is much more mixed and certainly, Napolitano gets his dates . Congress repealed the Fugitive Slave Act in 1864, a year before the war ended. The judge’s words have a sliver of accuracy but overall, we rate his  .
Statement: Says Henry Kissinger said "Trump is the one true leader in world affairs and he is forcing policy changes that put America first!
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 16, 2018
Topics: corrections and updates;fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: I’m saying it’s an extraordinary opportunity." Kissinger did not call Trump the one  leader, or describe the Obama presidency as "eight years of tyranny." And while he spoke positively about the new president, he didn’t  that "there is not a single thing  with him and people need to open their eyes." We rate this post . Correction, Jan. 17: The date of Henry Kissinger's Face the Nation interview was Dec. 18, 2016.
Statement: You couldn't buy a cannon when, in fact, the Second Amendment passed.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: April 11, 2022
Location: national
Topics: history;guns
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Or even the second. During his presidential campaign, he made a similar  about cannon ownership in the Revolutionary War. We rated that  .   Then, in 2021, Biden said the Second Amendment "limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own."  again .
Statement: A lot of what (Cuba's) survival depends on is Venezuelan oil money, which is drying up.
Speaker: ana navarro
About the speaker: Ana Navarro is a Republican strategist and CNN political commentator.
Date: December 17, 2014
Topics: foreign policy;punditfact
Context: an interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper"
Fact-check justification: Navarro said a lot of Cuba’s survival depends on Venezuelan oil money, and that it's drying up. The data we found and the experts we reached back that up, to a point. Venezuelan aid added at least 6 percent to Cuba’s GDP last year. Venezuela is also a major trading partner, buying as much as 40 percent of Cuba’s trade in goods. The loss of direct support from Venezuela could cause a 7 to 10 percent drop in Cuba’s GDP, experts told us. While that hasn't happened yet, it's certainly a strong possibility. Though Cuba has been moving to reduce its dependency on Venezuela, and has a track record of making it through tough times, that would still be a significant hit. We rate the  .
Statement: The nonpartisan CBO, Congressional Budget Office, has said that the No. 1 policy decision that brought us to the need to prevent the nation from defaulting on our debt for the first time in history were the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003.
Speaker: debbie wasserman schultz
About the speaker: Debbie Wasserman Schultz became the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 and resigned in July 2016. The Florida Democrat was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 after serving in the state senate. She represents Congressional District 23 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Date: July 19, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: deficit;federal budget
Context: debate on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives
Fact-check justification: Wasserman Schultz said that "the nonpartisan CBO, Congressional Budget Office, has said that the No. 1 policy decision that brought us to the need to prevent the nation from defaulting on our debt for the first time in history were the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003." The CBO never actually said that, but data from a May 2011 CBO report can reasonably support Wasserman Schultz's position. The CBO found that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts resulted in the biggest revenue drop since 2001. Experts say the cuts were hefty enough they likely outweighed individual spending decisions. We rate her statement .
Statement: Illinois lags way behind all of our neighbors and certainly we're in the bottom tier of states that are doing testing.
Speaker: lori lightfoot
About the speaker: Lori Lightfoot is the 56th mayor of Chicago. Prior to taking office in May 2019, she worked as an attorney and previously served as president of the Chicago Police Board, a civilian body responsible for deciding disciplinary matters involving allegations of police misconduct.
Date: April 7, 2020
Location: illinois
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: remarks at a news conference
Fact-check justification: Lightfoot said, "Illinois lags way behind all of our neighbors and certainly we’re in the bottom tier of states that are doing testing." At the time Lightfoot made her statement, Illinois did lag a majority of states nationally in terms of the share of its population that had been tested for COVID-19, according to data compiled by an independent reporting project. But the same dataset shows Illinois tested — and continues to test — more residents per capita than the states it borders. We rate Lightfoot’s  .  – 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: Given the results of the primary, the vote of one New Hampshire superdelegate is equal to the votes of about 10,000 grassroots activists.
Speaker: new hampshire republican party
About the speaker: The New Hampshire Republican Party is the GOP's office for the Granite State.
Date: February 16, 2016
Location: new hampshire
Topics: elections
Context: an online petition
Fact-check justification: The New Hampshire Republican Party said that "Given the results of the primary, the vote of one New Hampshire superdelegate is equal to the votes of about 10,000 grassroots activists." For starters, "grassroots activists" are not the same as voters, which needed to be clarified. But strictly looking at the numerical breakdown of voters in the Democratic primary and the number of delegates, the math works out.    We rate the the  .
Statement: The "Back the Blue" Act that Gov. Kim Reynolds signs means you can't wear the American flag. "So throw out those towels and swimsuits ... or you're a criminal!
Speaker: greg hauenstein
About the speaker: Greg Hauenstein is a  a political and commercial photographer.
Date: June 17, 2021
Location: iowa
Topics: civil rights
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The "Back the Blue Act" creates punishment for showing disrespect for the U.S. flag, but the image of the flag on clothing or other fabric that is not used to make the flag does not qualify as a flag under Iowa law.  Additionally, desecration of the flag is protected under the First Amendment, according to the 1989 Supreme Court case  Texas v. Johnson . Hauenstein said that he was being facetious in his critique of the new Iowa law.  We rate the  in the tweet to be .
Statement: FACT: Repealing Obamacare would be easier than repealing Prohibition.
Speaker: heritage foundation
About the speaker: The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.
Date: December 5, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The Heritage Foundation tweeted that it would be easier to repeal Obamacare than it was to repeal Prohibition. It’s correct that, on paper, it’s procedurally easier to repeal a law than to repeal a constitutional amendment. However, Obamacare is a much more complicated piece of legislation than Prohibition was, meaning it would likely be far more complicated to eliminate all vestiges of the law. The Heritage tweet oversimplifies the debate. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it .
Statement: Says "an unchecked Democratic Majority in Trenton" is responsible for "years of diversions" from the state's unemployment insurance trust fund.
Speaker: anthony bucco
About the speaker: Anthony Bucco is a Republican State Senator representing parts of Morris and Somerset counties. Prior to joining the Senate in 1998, Bucco served in the State Assembly for three years. Bucco has served as the Senate's Republican Budget Officer since 2009.
Date: May 1, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: state budget
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: In a May 1 news release, Bucco claimed in regard to the state’s unemployment benefits fund that Gov. Chris Christie "has fixed the mess he inherited as a result of years of diversions and fiscal irresponsibility by an unchecked Democratic Majority in Trenton." Both political parties are responsible for diverting money from the trust fund. But of the roughly $4.6 billion in total diverted funds, about 67 percent of that was approved by the Republican-led Legislature between 1992 and 1997. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: There are no provisions in here that substantially affect or advantage the big Wall Street bankers.
Speaker: heidi heitkamp
About the speaker: Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat, served as a U.S. senator from North Dakota from 2013 to 2019.
Date: March 14, 2018
Location: national
Topics: financial regulation
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Heitkamp said, "There are no provisions in here that substantially affect or advantage the big Wall Street bankers." The bill raises the bar of what is considered a big bank five-fold, which effectively relaxes the standards for large regional banks. Experts warn this also could open a door for bigger Wall Street bank giveaways. The bill also has a few provisions affecting banks above $250 billion in assets. However, the effects would largely depend on the Federal Reserve’s interpretation of the law. The biggest banks might be able to get relaxed regulations, but then again, they might not. Heitkamp is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says Wisconsin "doesn't even give" released prison inmates "a bus ticket to get home.
Speaker: kathleen vinehout
About the speaker: Democrat Kathleen Vinehout is a Wisconsin state senator from Alma, in western Wisconsin. The former university professor and dairy farmer was elected to the Senate in 2006 and re-elected in 2010. She ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination to run against Gov. Scott Walker in the gubernatorial recall election in 2012.
Date: May 1, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;transportation
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: She did not provide any  and her  certainly is not the state’s policy, or general practice. What we found is that the state typically provides a ride, or a bus ticket, to released inmates. But occasionally, there are inmates without transportation who get a bus ticket from a non-profit agency. Vinehout’s statement has only an element of  and ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. That’s our definition of .
Statement: Says President Obama "was proposing pinprick strikes" for military intervention in Syria.
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: October 26, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;foreign policy;military
Context: a U.S. Senate debate
Fact-check justification: Rubio said Obama "was proposing pinprick strikes" for military intervention in Syria. In 2013, Obama did suggest a limited military response — likely airstrikes from Navy ships — after Assad’s chemical weapons attacks on civilians. Obama only used the word "pinprick" to describe what he didn’t want the attacks to be, and said repeatedly that the U.S. military isn’t built for small-scale action. And while some officials have used the term, "pinprick strikes" aren’t a  military description for any kind of operation. We rate the statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/312c2630-210d-4b95-8f30-c16c89bb4dda
Statement: We are one of the most expensive [bus] rides in New England.
Speaker: charles odimgbe
About the speaker: Charles Odimgbe is the Chief Executive Office of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority.
Date: June 20, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: transportation
Context: a meeting of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority board
Fact-check justification: However, while RIPTA lets patrons travel all the way across the state for no more than $2.50,  riders in Boston and Connecticut have to pay substantially more to travel comparable distances. So, Odimgbe’s  that RIPTA is "one of the most expensive rides in New England" is  for base fares, but not when it comes to longer trips. Because 85 percent of RIPTA riders pay the base fare, we rate his  MostlyTrue . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: The Seminole gambling compact offers "$3 billion in guaranteed revenue, the largest share for any state in history.
Speaker: seminole tribe of florida
About the speaker: The Seminole Tribe of Florida is a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans with headquarters in Hollywood. They operate seven casinos across the state.
Date: February 3, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: gambling
Context: a commercial
Fact-check justification: The Seminole Tribe of Florida said their new gambling compact offers "$3 billion in guaranteed revenue, the largest share for any state in history." The tribe's point about guaranteed compensation over seven years holds up when focused on total dollars. But there's no easy way to make apples-to-apples comparisons of the details between various states and their gaming compacts. Some states have compacts with many other tribes. Some deals call for tribes to split a portion of revenues only with local governments. The takeaway from the ad is Florida is getting the best financial deal of any state in the country, but the finer points aren't clear. We're going to hedge our bets and rate the statement .
Statement: The process to distribute the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals out into the community as a whole, did not really exist when we came into the White House.
Speaker: ron klain
About the speaker: Ron Klain is President Joe Biden's chief of staff. Klain served as Biden's first Chief of Staff when he became Vice President (2009-11); Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee during Biden’s tenure as Chair of the Committee (1989-92); and Policy Advisor on the Judiciary Committee staff (1986-87). Klain also worked as an advisor on Biden’s 1988 and 2008 Presidential campaigns. Klain served as White House Ebola Response Coordinator (2014-15).
Date: January 24, 2021
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;public health;coronavirus
Context: an interview on Meet the Press
Fact-check justification: Klain said, "The process to distribute the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals out into the community as a whole, did not really exist when we came into the White House." Klain was focusing his criticism on the phase of getting vaccinations into the arms of the general public, not the initial phase of vaccinating health care workers and workers and residents of long-term care facilities. The Trump administration’s approach to distributing the vaccine was to give it to locations chosen by the states and to let them take it from there. There are many criticisms of this process, including that it took too long to give states money to implement their plans and a lack of communication from the top about how the rollout would work. But that was the plan they drew up. Saying there a plan "does not really exist" is beyond saying a plan is lacking. We rate Klain’s  . CORRECTION , Jan. 28: We corrected the number of Americans the Biden administration hopes to fully vaccinate by the end of summer or early fall.
Statement: Says Deborah Birx "traveled a great distance to see her family for Thanksgiving, only to have them call the police and turn her in. She then ... resigned.
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: March 29, 2021
Location: national
Topics: coronavirus
Context: a statement given to the press
Fact-check justification: Trump said Birx "traveled a great distance to see her family for Thanksgiving  — only to have them call the police and turn her in. She then … resigned." Birx took a two-hour drive with her daughter’s family to a vacation home the day after Thanksgiving. The sister of Birx’s son-in-law told the AP, not the police, about the trip. Birx soon announced she would retire, and she stepped down at the end of Trump’s term a month later. Trump invented and embellished the details, but broadly, the  rates .
Statement: Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, U.S. health care spending grew at 3.9 percent for the last three years, the lowest growth rate in over 50 years.
Speaker: ron kind
About the speaker: Democrat Ron Kind has represented Wisconsin's third congressional district since 1996.
Date: August 2, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;health care;government regulation
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: And when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the total health care spending figures for 2011, the agency concluded that Obamacare had "no discernible impact" on the slowdown in spending that year. Our rating Defending Obamacare, Kind said: "Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, U.S. health care spending grew at 3.9 percent for the last three years, the lowest growth rate in over 50 years." The statistical part of the  is  accurate. But despite Kind’s implication that Obamacare was key in reducing the growth of health care spending, the  suggests its role was modest. For a statement that is partially accurate but leaves out important details, we give Kind a .
Statement: For the first time since the Korean War, total federal spending has gone down for two years in a row.
Speaker: dennis ross
About the speaker: Dennis Ross, a Republican, represents Florida's 15th Congressional district, which stretches from the Tampa suburbs to Lakeland. He was elected in 2010.
Date: October 7, 2013
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: the Tampa Bay Times
Fact-check justification: That’s because reductions in spending mean swimming against the tide of inflation and growth. Our rating Ross said that, "for the first time since the Korean War, total federal spending has gone down for two years in a row." Since the 1950s, spending fell one year between 1964 and 1965, and then once again between 2009 and 2010.  But the only time it fell two years in a row was between 2011 and 2013. We rate the statement .
Statement: Malcolm X's daughter found dead in NYC days after she exposed NYPD and FBI were behind Malcolm X assassination
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 25, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A post says, "Malcolm X’s daughter found dead in NYC days after she exposed NYPD and FBI were behind Malcolm X assassination."  In February 2021, Shabazz and her family revealed a letter they said shed new light on the circumstances of Malcolm X’s death, though the letter’s authenticity is under dispute. But they released the letter nine months before Shabazz died on Nov. 22. And there’s no indication that the two events were connected, as the post suggests. Shabazz had a long-term illness before her death and authorities said the death does not appear to be suspicious. The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate this  .