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Statement: Says a study indicates up to $8.5 billion in lost GDP and up to 185,000 lost jobs if Texas lawmakers approve a measure limiting transgender bathroom choices.
Speaker: texas association of business
About the speaker: The Texas Association of Business calls itself the state's leading employer association. It says it "works to improve the Texas business climate and to help make our state's economy the strongest in the world."
Date: December 6, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: criminal justice;economy;crime;sexuality
Context: a press release and study
Fact-check justification: The TAB said a study projects up to $8.5 billion in lost GDP and up to 185,000 lost jobs in Texas if lawmakers approve a discriminatory measure like proposals in other states. Such a law might cause economic shivers. But we find this study’s headlined figures, reached about 13 months ago, to be based on predicted or actual effects of discriminatory mandates in Arizona, Louisiana and Indiana that didn’t make it into law or were rescinded or softened. Moreover, not all the study’s numbers, calculations and assumptions proved solid and a key figure, reflecting on Indiana losing $1.5 billion in conventions, doesn't appear to have a documented basis. We rate this  .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: All Aboard Florida is a 100 percent private venture. There is no state money involved.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: June 30, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: state budget;transportation
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Scott said in a TV interview that "All Aboard Florida is a 100 percent private venture. There is no state money involved." While All Aboard Florida is a private venture, it has applied for a $1.6 billion federal loan. Also, the state is kicking in money for infrastructure, particularly for a new intermodal center at the Orlando International Airport. The funding for that infrastructure doesn’t go directly to All Aboard, but All Aboard does derive some benefit from the spending. Overall, we rate Scott’s  .
Statement: In Galveston, Texas, they have allowed people to privatize part of their Social Security. And people are building wealth.
Speaker: e.w. jackson
About the speaker: Earl Walker Jackson Sr. was the 2013 Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia. He lost to Democrat Ralph Northam. Jackson was previously an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nod in the 2012 U.S. Senate race.
Jackson served in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years. He graudated from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1975 and earned a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1978. He practiced law in the Boston area for 15 years.
 In 1996, Jackson joined with the Christian Coalition to head "The Samaritan Project," an outreach program that distributed $500,000 to churches that were victim of arson. In 1998, he was consecrated a bishop and went on to establish Exodus Faith Ministries, a nondenominational church in Chesapeake.
Date: May 11, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: county government;retirement;social security;workers
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Jackson is correct that Galveston, Texas, has a privately run retirement plan in lieu of Social Security. The program benefits municipal workers in Galveston County and two neighboring counties. It’s debatable whether the Galveston plan, overall, offers workers a superior financial alternative to Social Security; in some cases it does, in others it doesn’t. But, as Jackson said, the plan  does build wealth because it allows workers to create individual retirement accounts that are guaranteed to earn interest each year. The employees have some control over their accounts and can leave them to their survivors.   So we rate Jackson’s  .
Statement: There are no background checks on long guns (AR15s) in Texas.
Speaker: alyssa milano
About the speaker: Alyssa Milano is an actress.
Date: November 5, 2017
Location: national
Topics: public safety;guns
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Milano tweeted, "There are no background checks on long guns (AR15s) in Texas." Federal law does require background checks when a firearm is sold or transferred by licensed gun dealers, importers, and manufacturers. That includes long guns. But private, unlicensed sellers are not required to conduct background checks under federal or Texas law, even though other states have added requirements to that effect. Milano noted these distinctions in a follow-up tweet, but her original tweet lacked important context. We rate Milano’s  .
Statement: Calls COVID-19 vaccine a "non-FDA-approved experimental agent.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: March 30, 2021
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post described the COVID-19 vaccine as a "non-FDA-approved experimental agent." While the vaccines await full FDA approval, the FDA formally authorized their use after reviewing months of data involving tens of thousands of clinical trial participants. Experts in medical ethics said there’s little difference between the trial results that lead to emergency use authorization and final approval. Evaluation of the vaccines continues and drug makers must file monthly reports on any adverse outcomes. We rate this  .
Statement: All the really great programs in American history, Social Security, was done without Republicans. Medicare was done without Republican support until the last vote where they realized they had to get on board.
Speaker: howard dean
About the speaker: Howard Dean is the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, and was the longtime governor of Vermont before that.
Date: August 25, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care;history;medicare
Context: an interview on the Rachel Maddow Show
Fact-check justification: (President Barack Obama would probably love to get even that much GOP backing.) So we find Dean is glossing over the details and exaggerating the partisan split. Both Social Security and Medicare were indeed championed by Democrats, but passed with the help of Republican votes. And while some GOP members waited until the last minute to support Medicare, it was backed by half the Republicans on the Senate committee. So we find Dean's statement .
Statement: Ivanka Trump is joining the Democrats to run against her dad.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 8, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "I am a proud Trump Republican," she told the New York Times in March 2020. "I believe he’s broadened the reach of the Republican Party, which is really important to me. "  About a year later, there was speculation that Donald and Ivanka Trump could share the ticket in 2024, with Ivanka Trump replacing former Vice President Mike Pence.   But there’s no  to support the  that she’s switching political parties to challenge her father.   We rate this  !
Statement: Documents released from the Soviet Union" show "the Soviet Union started treating" President Ronald Reagan more seriously after Reagan fired the air traffic controllers.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: January 21, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: history;labor;foreign policy;transportation;unions
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: And experts, several of whom felt Walker’s  is outrageous, told us they are not aware that any such documents exist. For a statement that is  and , our rating is . ------ More on Scott Walker For profiles and stories on Scott Walker and 2016 presidential politics, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Scott Walker page . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page .
Statement: A photo shows a deputy U.S. marshal "keeping a close eye" on President Joe Biden at the State of the Union address on Feb. 7.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 8, 2023
Topics: corrections and updates;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The spokesperson declined to comment on specifics.   We’ve previously debunked claims that photos showed Biden surrounded by deputy U.S. marshals. The men in those images were Secret Service agents. We rate this post . UPDATE, Feb. 17, 2023 : This story was updated to include remarks from the U.S. Secret Service.
Statement: Pritzker's Hierarchy of Vaccine Priorities" puts prisoners, politicians and college students ahead of "individuals with high-risk health factors, and everyone else.
Speaker: illinois republican party
About the speaker: The Illinois Republican Party is one of two major political parties in the state.
Date: February 5, 2021
Location: illinois
Topics: coronavirus
Context: social media posts
Fact-check justification: The Illinois Republican Party says "Pritzker’s Hierarchy of Vaccine Priorities" puts prisoners, politicians and college students into Phase 1B, ahead of "individuals with high-risk health factors, and everyone else." It’s  inmates and state lawmakers currently qualify for vaccinations, and those under the age of 65 and others who are not frontline workers do not — including people with underlying health risks. But it’s not  college students as a group are eligible. College students may only receive the vaccine right now if they meet other qualifying criteria. The GOP’s post also ignores how the Pritzker administration’s prioritization plan for inmates and those with high-risk medical conditions is in line with federal guidance. We rate it .  – 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: Lilibet, baby daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, "made her first appearance with the queen.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 18, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: It was the first time the couple had visited Europe together since moving to California in 2020, after they stepped down as senior royals. The  also said "chaos erupt(ed) at (the) palace," because Lilibet "had perfect black skin." Markle, who is biracial, said in a 2021 interview that when she was pregnant with her first child, a member of the royal family talked to Harry about "concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he was born," according to Time magazine . A Facebook video says Lilibet "made her first appearance with the queen," but the baby has not met Queen Elizabeth yet. We rate this  .
Statement: This will be the last time — April — that you're going to (fill out) that old-fashioned, big, lots of pages, complicated tax form. Because next April you're going to, in many cases, (file) one page, one card. It's going to be very, very different. Very, very different.
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: April 5, 2018
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: West Virginia
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "This will be the last time — April — that you’re going to (fill out) that old-fashioned, big, lots of pages, complicated tax form. Because next April you’re going to, in many cases, (file) one page, one card. It’s going to be very, very different. Very, very different." There is no new card- or postcard-filing option in the pipeline due to the law passed last December. As it happens, simpler filing options already exist and are widely used — but tax experts do not expect a surge in their use as a result of the tax bill in April 2019. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Tennessee Senate candidate Phil Bredesen "supports single-payer health care.
Speaker: senate leadership fund
About the speaker: Senate Leadership Fund is a Super PAC with the stated goal to "protect and expand the Republican Senate Majority." 
Date: September 18, 2018
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The Senate Leadership Fund said Bredesen supports a single-payer plan. Bredesen used those words in a 2010 book interview, but in the same breath, he said a single-payer plan would be disastrous. Health policy researchers find telling differences between Bredesen’s ideas and single-payer plans as they are proposed today. Most important, Bredesen proposed a voucher system and the government would not pay provider claims. By that yardstick, they said his proposal does not fit the single-payer category. Plus, Bredesen said recently that he is not for a single-payer plan. The ad obscures some very important details and misleads voters on Bredesen’s stance. We rate this  .
Statement: The FBI "spent more time investigating" the Jan. 6 Capitol attack than 9/11.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 24, 2022
Topics: homeland security;terrorism;facebook fact-checks;jan. 6
Context: an image shared on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A meme shared on Facebook claimed that the FBI "spent more time investigating" the Jan. 6 Capitol attack than 9/11. The FBI’s Jan. 6 investigation began the day of the attack and remains ongoing nearly two years later. The bureau’s 9/11 investigation began Sept. 11, 2001. The attacks were still under investigation nearly 15 years later and, to some extent, still are.  We rate this  ! RELATED: The 2021 Lie of the Year: Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance
Statement: 122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield.
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 7, 2017
Location: national
Topics: terrorism
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield." The United States government has transferred nearly 700 detainees out of Guantanamo, and and 122 of them are "confirmed of re-engaging" in some sort of terrorist activity. But Trump wrongly rests the blame solely on the Obama administration. Of the 122 prisoners in question 113 were released before Obama took office. We rate Trump’s  . Update : On March 7, after Trump made his , the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published updated data about recidivism of former Guantanmo detainees. As of Jan. 15, the DNI reports 121 former detainees confirmed of re-engaging in terrorism, eight of whom were released during the Obama administration. That's one fewer than the earlier data we used in our report. Our rating of  remains the same.
Statement: Kenosha car dealer kills himself after insurance won't cover … damages caused by the riots.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 11, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;crime;race and ethnicity
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: But the thrust of the  is not about insurance, it’s that a man lost his life. And that element is manufactured and completely . Anmol Khindri has not taken his own life. The headline shown here was manipulated — no such story was published by Fox Business Network. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Connie Mack "failed to pay his child support.
Speaker: george lemieux
About the speaker: George LeMieux is a former U.S. Senator from Florida. He was appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist in 2009 to fill the unexpired term of Sen. Mel Martinez and served until January 2011.
Date: February 27, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;children;families
Context: a Web ad
Fact-check justification: LeMieux’s ad said that Mack "failed to pay his child support," and the visuals of multiple "past due" notices suggest a pattern. LeMieux can’t prove that charge, though. Instead, LeMieux points to a court document that showed Mack was once 12 days late in paying for part of a $1,700 "temporary alimony" payment. LeMieux’s campaign argued that Mack’s late alimony payment could have been used to pay for their children’s expenses. We think saying that Mack "failed" to pay his child support is quite a stretch. It’s based on a single partial late payment of less than two weeks, and the payment was classified as alimony by the courts. We rate this  . PolitiFact Florida is partnering with 10 News for the 2012 election season. See the video version of this fact-check here .
Statement: The voting bill known as H.R. 1 would mean "that millions of illegal immigrants are quickly registered to vote.
Speaker: mike pence
About the speaker: Mike Pence is the former vice president of the United States. A Republican, Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence previously served for 12 years as a congressman from Indiana representing the Sixth Congressional District; he was first elected in 2000. During his time in the U.S. House of Represenatives, he served as House Republican Conference chairman and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. Pence was born in Columbus, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from Hanover College and a law degree in 1986 from Indiana University. After accepting Donald Trump's offer to be running mate, Pence ended his 2016 campaign to be re-elected as Indiana governor. 
Date: March 3, 2021
Topics: immigration;congress;elections
Context: Daily Signal op ed
Fact-check justification: Pence said H.R. 1 would mean "that millions of illegal immigrants are quickly registered to vote."  The bill does not permit voting by noncitizens in U.S. elections, whether they’re in the country legally or not. Pence was referring to a provision that would require automatic voter registration for people using services at government agencies. But that section says government agencies would pass along a person’s information for voter registration only if they are citizens. People would still be attesting that they are eligible to vote, with penalties for lying, and it would still be up to election officials to verify eligibility. The goal of the bill is to register eligible citizens. Pence’s warning that "millions" of ineligible noncitizens would be quickly added to the rolls is unsupported. We rate this statement . PolitiFact senior correspondent Louis Jacobson contributed to this report. RELATED: Mike Pence is  that HR 1 forces states to shift to universal mail balloting RELATED: Trump misleads about HR 1 and voter registration for welfare recipients RELATED: Do states verify citizenship of voters in federal elections? RELATED: No, House Democrats did not vote to allow noncitizens to vote as part of HR 1
Statement: Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them.
Speaker: ben carson
About the speaker: Dr. Ben Carson is President Donald Trump's secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A retired pediatric neurosurgeon, Carson ran as a Republican for president in 2016. He owns homes in West Palm Beach and Maryland.
Date: August 6, 2015
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: the first Republican debate
Fact-check justification: Carson said Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state and that it gave up those arms with the understanding that the United States would protect it. While it is  that about 1,900 nuclear warheads were on Ukrainian soil, experts make it clear that Ukraine merely possessed the weapons and had no ability to use them. Meanwhile, the security agreements struck after the fall of the USSR specifically avoided committing the United States to protecting Ukraine, instead committing not to attack the newly created independent nation. We rate this  .
Statement: As we've seen that federal support for states diminish, you've seen the biggest job losses in the public sector -- teachers, police officers, firefighters losing their jobs.
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: July 11, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;stimulus;workers
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: We should note that here, Obama is in the odd position of pointing to increasing job losses as  that the stimulus worked.   Here, we're checking Obama's statement, "As we've seen that federal support for states diminish, you've seen the biggest job losses in the public sector -- teachers, police officers, firefighters losing their jobs." The data tends to support that, but it's more of a correlation than a causation. Other factors, including continuing weakness in the economy and shrinking state and local revenue are at work as well. We rate Obama's statement .
Statement: Says Chelsea Clinton's bodyguard "Jack Gordon" was found dead in a river after telling "damaging information" to federal prosecutors.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 24, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a meme
Fact-check justification: If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined. Any similarities between this site’s pure fantasy and actual people, places, and events are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and satirical." As rumors often do, this one appears to have morphed. It started as a satire blog post and eventually became  a meme that featured a known actor’s photograph and used the name "Jack Gordon" as Chelsea Clinton’s former bodyguard.    We rate this !