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Statement: Last year (the U.S. women's soccer team) generated $20 million more than the men's team and were paid almost four times less.
Speaker: the other 98%
About the speaker: The Other 98% is an activist organization that favors an increase in the minimum wage and opposes favorable tax treatment for large corporations.
Date: March 31, 2016
Topics: income;sports;women;punditfact
Context: a Facebook image
Fact-check justification: An image shared by The Other 98 Percent said "Last year (the U.S. women’s soccer team) generated $20 million more than the men’s team and were paid almost four times less." The women’s soccer team had a much more successful season on the pitch than the men’s team last year, and as a result they brought in a lot more revenue. But that gap is closer to $5.8 million, not $20 million. And while there seem to be compensation disparities among the women and men, it’s hard to pin down exactly how big that disparity is because the way women and men are paid is so different, and it also varies by match and by player. We couldn't find a clear example of female players being paid one-fourth the amount their male counterparts earn. While there might be legitimate issues concerning the revenue and compensation ratio among the men’s and women’s soccer teams, this graphic uses numbers that are way off. We rate the statement .
Statement: Rebecca Washington is set to replace Sha'Carri Richardson on the U.S. Olympic team.
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: July 5, 2021
Topics: sports;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "Rebecca Washington," meanwhile, is not listed among the American women who ran in the track-and-field trials. We found no indication that this is an actual member of the U.S. Olympic team. Searching for news coverage about Washington and the Olympic Games, we only found references to the  tweet. And the image of Washington used in the tweet also appears to be an altered picture of Prandini . We rate claims that a runner named Rebecca Washington replaced Richardson on the U.S. Olympic team .
Statement: Says "Gary Johnson and the Libertarian Party want to get rid of the public school system.
Speaker: chelsea clinton
About the speaker: Chelsea Clinton is the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 
Date: September 28, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;children;education;families;history;government regulation
Context: an interview with Cosmo
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, "Gary Johnson and the Libertarian Party want to get rid of the public school system." The Libertarian platform calls for a free market educational system that puts the responsibility on the parents. Johnson clearly wants to get the federal government out of the education business, but public schools are run by the states and local communities, and there Johnson is giving mixed signals about the degree to which he wants to fully privatize public education. Because Clinton's statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context, we rate it .
Statement: This year, the overwhelming majority of new jobs are part time.
Speaker: susan collins
About the speaker: Susan Collins is a Republican U.S. Senator representing Maine.
Date: August 3, 2013
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;workers
Context: a response to the president's Saturday address
Fact-check justification: Collins said, "This year, the overwhelming majority of new jobs are part time." The statistics show that 77 percent of the increase in jobs between December 2012 and July 2013 consisted of part-time jobs. It’s worth noting that longer time frames show the opposite pattern, and that most of the part-time jobs being created are being taken by people who actually want to work part time. Still, on the numbers, Collins is right, and we rate her  .
Statement: Photo showing Game of Thrones characters depicts victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: February 7, 2023
Topics: natural disasters ;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: "  Many commenters encouraged the person behind the Instagram account to delete the photo.   The account had previously shared other videos it said were of the earthquake and its aftermath, and at least some of that footage was verified by news organizations. It’s not uncommon for scenes from movies, video games or TV shows to be shared as if they’re legitimate breaking news events. We’ve seen such examples disguised as scenes from Russia’s war in Ukraine and Italy’s early COVID-19 outbreak , to name a couple. We rate the  that the photo showed victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria .
Statement: Tim Kaine doesn't want a border at all. He wants to get rid of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and basically the border patrol as well.
Speaker: corey stewart
About the speaker: Corey Stewart, a Republican, is the chairman of the Prince William County's board of supervisors. He was elected to the board in 2003 to represent the Occoquan district. Then he won a special election in 2006 to become chairman. He was elected to four-year terms in 2007 and 2011.   
Stewart ran an unsuccessful campaign for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in 2013.
Stewart was born in Minnesota. He graduated from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and earned a law degree from William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minn. He works as an international trade attorney in private practice.
Date: June 30, 2018
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a Facebook live video
Fact-check justification: He wants to get rid of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and basically the border patrol as well." We found no  to support this . On the contrary, Kaine has backed two comprehensive immigration bills that featured significant measures for increased border security. He has not made any statements about getting rid of ICE, let alone the border. We rate Stewart’s statement !
Statement: In January, I outlined a plan to help revive our faltering economy, which formed the basis for a bipartisan stimulus package that passed the Congress.
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: September 16, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy;stimulus
Context: Golden, Colo
Fact-check justification: Congress had its own ideas about the size of tax rebates to individuals and didn’t adopt Obama’s ideas about unemployment insurance or homeowner relief. What’s more, lawmakers on committees with jurisdiction over the housing market discussed more detailed plans for helping homeowners months before Obama articulated them. Obama clearly deserves credit for offering a plan to bolster the sagging economy before Congress acted. But he is exaggerating the role his plan played in the stimulus package, which was jointly constructed with congressional leaders and the White House. For these reasons, we judge his  .
Statement: Marc Molinaro "has cut taxes, his budget now is lower than it was six years ago" in Dutchess County
Speaker: edward cox
About the speaker: Edward Cox is the chairman of the New York Repubclian Party. He's also the son-in-law of former Pres. Richard Nixon.
Date: May 1, 2018
Location: new york
Topics: corrections and updates;county budget;county government;state budget;taxes
Context: an interview on The Capital Pressroom
Fact-check justification: Cox said Molinaro has cut taxes and spending as Dutchess County Executive. He’s right that county property taxes are lower. But spending has risen more than 6 percent since Molinaro's first budget. Cox’s  is partially accurate. On balance, we rate it . EDITOR'S NOTE :  A previous version of this article used numbers from county budget documents to show changes in spending. Those numbers did not reflect the county's actual expenses, the county's budget office said.
Statement: Joe Biden "already has what is the most progressive platform of any major party nominee in history.
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: April 14, 2020
Topics: candidate biography;history
Context: an endorsement announcement
Fact-check justification: Obama said that Biden "already has what is the most progressive platform of any major party nominee in history."  This is a complicated assertion to evaluate, because the nature of liberalism changes over time, making candidate-to-candidate comparisons difficult. But there’s  that both supports and undercuts Obama’s position. Obama is on the strongest ground if you compare Biden’s platform with an absolute concept of liberalism. Tracking ongoing shifts within his party, Biden has moved to the left compared with where Obama stood, and is further to the left than many prior Democratic nominees. Also, as more liberal policies are enacted, the next steps are necessarily more liberal. However, in his own time, Biden is hardly on his party’s ideological vanguard, unlike previous nominees such as McGovern. We rate Obama’s statement .
Statement: It's not currently "legal for a New York state student to have a glass of fresh whole milk.
Speaker: lorraine lewandrowski
About the speaker: Lorraine Lewandrowski practices law in upstate New York and is a graduate of Albany Law School. As a farmer, she raises cows and advocates for farm families.
Date: February 24, 2021
Location: new york
Topics: agriculture;education;food
Context: a hearing of the New York Senate Agriculture Committee
Fact-check justification: Lewandrowski said it’s not currently "legal for a New York State student to have a glass of fresh whole milk." New York City banned providing whole milk in schools in 2006, and the federal government banned whole milk nationally — and therefore in all of New York state — in 2010.  We rate this statement .
Statement: America never made up for the gutting of the intelligence services that Bill Clinton did. I think those are (former CIA director George) Tenet's words ... that Bill Clinton gutted American intelligence.
Speaker: rudy giuliani
About the speaker: Rudy Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City. He was born in Brooklyn in 1944 and previously served as a federal prosecutor, as well as an associate attorney general under President Reagan. He graduated from Manhattan College and earned a law degree from New York University Law School. He has been married since 2003 to Judith Nathan and was married twice before. He has two children, Andrew and Caroline. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 30, 2008.
Date: November 2, 2007
Location: national
Topics: terrorism
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: "Between 1999 and 2001, our human agent base against the terrorist target grew by over 50 percent," he said. So, we conclude that Giuliani's statement is . Clinton did reduce the intelligence budget early in his tenure. But Tenet never placed the blame squarely on Clinton's shoulders, as Giuliani said he did. And while Tenet said budget cuts had made it difficult for the CIA to pursue its mission by 1997, the cuts came during both the Bush and Clinton presidencies.
Statement: Democrats have said that "even one hearing (on the stimulus bill) would be one too many, and that we have a single day to approve these five complex propositions that will affect the lives of millions.
Speaker: joe barton
About the speaker: Joe Barton is a Republican congressman from Texas. He was formerly the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee and served as that committee’s ranking member while the Democrats were in the House majority.
Date: January 22, 2009
Location: national
Topics: economy;stimulus
Context: a statement at a committee meeting
Fact-check justification: Our unemployment rate is over 7 percent and growing. We urgently need an economic recovery package — and we need it immediately." On Jan. 23, Obama met with Republican leadership to get their input on the proposed stimulus package; and he agreed to meet with the Republican caucuses this week, though many Republicans scoffed at the suggestion it will result in anything close to a bipartisan plan. One can argue whether the urgency of the economic crisis outweighs the need for deliberate consideration through congressional hearings, but Barton is right: There have been no hearings on the massive stimulus package that Congress is expected to vote on as early as this week. We rule his statement .
Statement: With this plan, the typical family of four will save $1,182 a year on their taxes.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: November 3, 2017
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;families;taxes
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Ryan said, "With this plan, the typical family of four will save $1,182 a year on their taxes." This is based on a plausible and transparent calculation, but Ryan glosses over some context. The calculation doesn’t factor in several itemized deductions that would disappear under the proposal and that could have a significant impact on at least some "typical" families around that income level. And Ryan’s statement is  when he says the family will save "$1,182 a year," since that’s the case in the first year only; after that, the benefit starts to shrink and eventually turns into a tax hike. We rate the statement . EDITOR'S NOTE, Nov. 3, 6:50 p.m.: This article has been updated to include additional information provided by Ryan's office about the tax impact on a family of four that makes $73,000 annually.
Statement: Bill Heller "raises taxes. Property taxes. Small business taxes. He even wants to tax the Internet. Mr. Heller said no to balancing the federal budget, that puts more debt on our kids.
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: October 12, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: message machine 2010;taxes
Context: a campaign video
Fact-check justification: While Heller did vote in 2009 and 2010 against budget bills that included annual 7 percent pay cuts for lawmakers, he actually voted for the cut in 2010 when it was approved as an amendment. The amendment for the 2009 cut was approved without a roll call vote, meaning it had little controversy. The pay cuts were approved in the budget and were signed into law by Gov. Charlie Crist each year. So while Heller has supported tax increases, Brandes inaccurately describes the gravity and actual effect of Heller's votes on the federal budget. We rate Brandes' claims on taxes .
Statement: In her campaign for president, Hillary Clinton has received $100 million in contributions from Wall Street and hedge funds.
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: September 28, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: campaign finance;corporations;wealth
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: (Trump has often said he is "self-funding" his campaign, a  that’s been rated  . His campaign accepts contributions, but there’s no question he has funded much of the effort, which might explain in part why Clinton gets so much more money from Wall Street.) Our rating Campaigning outside Milwaukee, Trump said: "In her campaign for president," Clinton "has received $100 million in contributions from Wall Street and hedge funds." The gold-standard source on this subject puts the figure at $64 million. We rate Trump’s statement .
Statement: FBI issues Warrant For Obama's Arrest After Confirming Illegal Trump Tower Wiretap.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 4, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: posts on the Internet
Fact-check justification: Obama basically confessed in a private call to one of Hillary Clinton’s aides that he had the Trump Tower tapped and we can’t find any federal order legally authorized by a judge to do so." It’s pretty obvious that quote is made up, though. This story about Obama’s arrest is originally from a site full of faux news stories, TheLastLineOfDefense.org . TheLastLineOfDefense.org doesn’t identify the warrant story as , but the About Us page notes that "all articles should be considered satirical and any and all quotes attributed to actual people complete and total baloney." We rate this  !
Statement: Georgia has some of the best maintained roads in America.
Speaker: vance smith
About the speaker: Vance Smith is the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation
Date: January 19, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: transportation
Context: a budget presentation
Fact-check justification: Its score in the Reason Foundation report was weighed down by data that found Georgia spends less money than most states in some road maintenance areas. Traffic congestion, where Georgia scored lower than most states, does result in more wear and tear on its roads. Spear, the GDOT spokesman, contends that congestion is important but does not address the overall condition of the road. Georgia does rank high in nearly all measures of road maintenance. We rate the commissioner’s comments about Georgia’s roads as .
Statement: While on FAKE NEWS @CNN, Bernie Sanders was cut off for using the term fake news to describe the network. They said technical difficulties!
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: February 12, 2017
Location: national
Topics: pop culture
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump tweeted, "While on  NEWS @CNN, Bernie Sanders was cut off for using the term  news to describe the network. They said technical difficulties!" Trump’s tweet distorted what happened when Sanders brought up " news" on CNN.  Sanders was actually criticizing Trump’s repeated outcries that CNN is a  news source. His audio did go out after this joke, but the CNN host picked up the interview after a commercial break for about nine more minutes. Trump gave the  impression that Sanders was booted for calling CNN " news." That’s not what happened. We rate this statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/3b173a27-53c4-4066-91b2-6991518ee78b
Statement: BREAKING GOP approves resolution to expel Omar from Congress! It's over for her!
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 29, 2023
Topics: congress;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Meta , which owns Facebook and Instagram.) Though reading that "GOP" approved a resolution to expel Omar might bring to mind U.S. House Republicans, Omar’s colleagues in Congress, the video makes clear that this is about the Alabama Republican Party’s state executive committee.   And not only was it not "over for her," she won re-election in November. Her current term ends in 2025.   We rate claims that Republicans newly passed a resolution to expel Omar .
Statement: In some states, it is still legal to deny a woman coverage because she's been the victim of domestic violence.
Speaker: michelle obama
About the speaker: Michelle Obama is the wife of Barack Obama and the former First Lady of the United States. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School and has worked for the Mayor of Chicago and the University of Chicago. Michelle and Barack Obama have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: September 18, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: "No one should be denied coverage because they are victims of domestic abuse," said Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans. We find that the first lady is correct that "in some states, it is still legal to deny a woman coverage because she's been the victim of domestic violence." Putting aside the disputed North Carolina law, there still are several other states — including Mississippi and Wyoming — that have no specific laws prohibiting the practice. It's important to note that we couldn't find this was happening on a widespread basis — or even just a little bit. But still, Mrs. Obama is correct and we rate the  .
Statement: During the lead-up to the American Revolutionary War, "some guy in Boston got his head blown off because he tried to secretly raise the tax on tea.
Speaker: andrea tantaros
About the speaker: Andrea Tantaros is a conservative political analyst and co-host of Fox News Channel's The Five.
Date: January 15, 2014
Topics: economy;history;punditfact
Context: comments on Fox News Channel's "The Five"
Fact-check justification: Tantaros, in lamenting Americans’ knowledge of U.S. history, said, "Some guy in Boston got his head blown off because he tried to secretly raise the tax on tea." No one got their head blown off for that reason, and no one secretly tried to raise the tax on tea. The British government imposed duties on a number of goods in 1767, including tea. The 1773 Tea Act actually would have made tea cheaper for colonists, though it would have done so by propping up the British-held East India Company. The man responsible for the original tax died of a fever in Britain. Tantaros appeared to be trying to make the point that Americans -- who live in a country that is less economically free, according to one report -- forget what the lack of freedom feels like. That position may or may not be supported by their lack of knowledge of the lead-up to the Revolutionary War. But it’s not supported by her version of history because it did not happen. We rate her  !