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Statement: Says "tanking" Rick Perry's federal tax plan has "huge tax cuts for rich people and big tax hikes for everyone else.
Speaker: rachel maddow
About the speaker: Rachel Maddow is the host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show”. She formerly hosted a radio program of the same name on the defunct Air America network.
Date: October 25, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: pundits;taxes
Context: a TV commentary
Fact-check justification: Nearly all of the nation’s wealthiest residents would see tax cuts if Perry’s plan became law, in keeping with Maddow’s . Will they be huge? That’s an eye-of-the-beholder question, but some could be sizable by any definition. Some other Americans--including 45 percent of residents earning $19,343 to $39,862--also would see tax cuts, a projection that does not support the  that the plan means big tax increases for everyone but the wealthy. Perry’s plan allows every taxpayer to continue under the current system. No one would pay more unless he or she chooses the flat tax against their financial self-interest. Maddow’s statement, leaving the  impression that Perry’s tax plan hugely benefits the rich while everyone else pays more, rates . UPDATE, 1:20 p.m., Nov. 4, 2011 : We’ve amended this article to correct our initial recap of some of the Tax Policy Center’s average tax-cut forecasts for some taxpayers  under Rick Perry’s tax plan. These changes do not affect the rating.
Statement: Kamala Harris said, "We have to acknowledge gas is high which is the opposite of low.
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: October 18, 2022
Topics: gas prices;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An online search turned up no credible news reports or other sources corroborating that she said this. She made no such remarks from her verified @VP and @KamalaHarris Twitter accounts . We also didn’t find it in Politwoops , ProPublica’s archive of deleted tweets from public officials.   This statement also doesn’t appear in speeches and remarks published on the White House’s website, nor in its statements and news releases .   We rate claims that Harris said this .
Statement: A year ago, in March 2007, I called for immediate action to address abuses in the subprime market, and I laid out detailed concrete proposals for how to do so.
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: March 24, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: a speech at the University of Pennsylvania
Fact-check justification: Her more recent comments don't make comparisons with her rivals and we're addressing the newer remarks.) We're not going to declare who spoke up first because the crisis evolved over many months. The  shows both Obama and Clinton were talking about various aspects of the issue as early as 2006, before it had ripened into a crisis. But we will rule on Clinton's  that she spoke up in March 2007. She did and we find her statement .
Statement: The Obama administration originally "wanted 10,000 troops to remain in Iraq -- not combat troops, but military advisers, special operations forces, to watch the counterterrorism effort.
Speaker: martha raddatz
About the speaker: Martha Raddatz is a correspondent with ABC News.
Date: August 24, 2014
Topics: iraq;punditfact
Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Raddatz said the Obama administration originally "wanted 10,000 troops to remain in Iraq -- not combat troops, but military advisers, special operations forces, to watch the counterterrorism effort." For a period, at least, the Obama administration did envision leaving 10,000 troops in Iraq past the Dec. 31, 2011, pullout of forces. That number went down to about 5,000 before negotiations stalled amid a legal snare over immunity of American forces in Iraqi courts. Her  is accurate but needs additional information. We rate her  .
Statement: HIV/AIDS among women is skyrocketing in Austin.
Speaker: ora houston
About the speaker: Ora Houston, elected the District 1 member of the Austin City Council in November 2014, is a longtime East Austin resident who worked 27 years for the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and, prior to that, as a caseworker with Child Protective Services and Austin Travis County MHMR. After retirement, Houston worked in the office of state Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos.
Date: September 8, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: city budget;city government;health care;public health;women
Context: an Austin City Council meeting about the city budget
Fact-check justification: Houston said HIV/AIDS among women is skyrocketing in Austin. That’s not so. While black women have persistently been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS at higher rates than other women, HIV/AIDS incidence rates for Travis County women declined for most of the past decade. We rate the  .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Since the passage of Tax Cuts, real disposable personal income per household has increased $5,205.
Speaker: ivanka trump
About the speaker: Ivanka Trump is an American businesswoman and the daughter of and assistant to President Donald Trump.
Date: August 20, 2019
Location: national
Topics: economy;income
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Ivanka Trump said, "Since the passage of Tax Cuts, real disposable personal income per household has increased $5,205." Mathematically, the number is accurate, but it’s worth noting some context she left out. The $5,205 figure is an average, so it is likely skewed by large gains among wealthier Americans. In addition, this statistic has been rising pretty consistently since early 2013, when Obama was in office, even during periods where it was not boosted by a large tax cut. The statement is accurate but needs additional information, so we rate the statement .
Statement: The Space Foundation has erased the honors previously bestowed on Yuri Gagarin, the first man to ever be in space. His name was stripped 'in light of current events.'
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 20, 2022
Location: national
Topics: space;facebook fact-checks;ukraine
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims, "the Space Foundation has erased the honors previously bestowed on Yuri Gagarin, the first man to ever be in space. His name was stripped ‘in light of current events.’" This is . The Space Foundation removed Gagarin’s name from an event after it received derogatory and anti-Russian comments on its social media accounts due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But the organization did not revoke any formal honors from the cosmonaut. Gagarin’s exhibits are still on display at the foundation and his accomplishments will still be celebrated at the event. The post contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: It's been over 50 years since minimum (wage) and inflation parted ways, then over a decade since the federal minimum went up at all.
Speaker: mandela barnes
About the speaker: Mandela Barnes is an American politician serving as the 45th lieutenant governor of Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic Party, Barnes is a former state representative. On August 14, 2018, he won the Democratic primary in a landslide and became the running mate of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tony Evers. Evers and Barnes went on to win the November 2018 election, defeating incumbent Republicans Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch. Barnes became Wisconsin's first African American lieutenant governor.
 
 
Date: May 23, 2021
Location: wisconsin
Topics: income;jobs;workers
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Barnes claimed that it’s been over 50 years since the federal minimum wage stopped increasing on par with inflation, and that it’s been over a decade since that minimum wage increased at all.  The inflation-adjusted and nominal minimum wage stopped rising together after 1968, which was 53 years ago. And the federal minimum wage was last raised in 2009.  We rate his  .
Statement: Pennsylvania officials are "attempting to silence voters" by sending them letters that say they've been exposed to COVID-19 and "must remain quarantined and not vote in person on Election Day.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 2, 2020
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post claims that letters from Pennsylvania’s Department of Health order people to quarantine and not vote in person on Election Day. The post suggests that this is a voter suppression effort. In actuality, the state has been issuing quarantine directives to close contacts of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began in March. These letters do order recipients to quarantine, but they don’t mention voting. The letters also warn that the state’s health secretary could call on the courts or law enforcement to intervene if the recipients do not cooperate.  However, those under quarantine can still cast an emergency ballot until 8 p.m. on Election Day.  We rate this post . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Says "if we do nothing and continue to let Obamacare siphon off that $700 billion dollars off the top of it, Medicare goes away in less than 10 years -- certain accounts of it -- and it just falls apart at the seams.
Speaker: jon runyan
About the speaker: A former offensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles, Jon Runyan is a Republican Congressman representing New Jersey's 3rd district, which includes parts of Burlington, Camden and Ocean counties.
 
Date: September 17, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: an interview with Townsquare Media New Jersey
Fact-check justification: Runyan said, "if we do nothing and continue to let Obamacare siphon off that $700 billion dollars off the top of it, Medicare goes away in less than 10 years -- certain accounts of it -- and it just falls apart at the seams." This statement is  on several fronts. The health care law decreases growth in future Medicare spending by $716 billion over 10 years. It does not cut that amount from the current Medicare budget. Analysts project one of the trust funds that pay for Medicare services will be unable to meet all of its obligations in 2024, but the fund would still cover some benefits. Without the Affordable Care Act, the fund would be exhausted in 2016. For those reasons, we rate this statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Gingrich supported individual health insurance mandates.
Speaker: red, white and blue fund
About the speaker: The Red White and Blue Fund is a super PAC supporting Rick Santorum.
Date: February 24, 2012
Location: national
Topics: health care;message machine 2012
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Red, White and Blue Fund’s ad says "Gingrich supported individual health insurance mandates." When we rated this before, we gave a  to Santorum's  that "Speaker Gingrich for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate" because it was  for 20 years but Gingrich is now opposed. The wording is different for this one. The ad doesn’t put a timeframe on when he supported the policy, nor does it portray that as being his position now. As stated, it’s accurate. We rate it .
Statement: In year No. 1, 14 million Americans lose coverage," according to the CBO.
Speaker: chris murphy
About the speaker: Chris Murphy is a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate from Connecticut. He previously represented a district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Date: March 16, 2017
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Based on the CBO's analysis of the House Republican health care bill, Murphy said, "In year No. 1, 14 million Americans lose coverage." It is the CBO's estimate that 14 million more Americans would be off the health insurance rolls in the year following the bill’s passage. But Murphy overlooked that some of next year's newly uninsured population never wanted insurance to begin with and only got coverage under Obamacare to avoid tax penalties. This is particularly  of the people who "lose" coverage during the first year -- many of them are people dropping coverage because there is no longer a penalty. We rate Murphy’s statement .
Statement: Says that when Republicans held Congress and the presidency, they "doubled the size of the (U.S.) Department of Education.
Speaker: ron paul
About the speaker: Ron Paul, a Texas physician, served two stints in the U.S. House. He also was the Libertarian Party nominee for president in 1988 before later seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and 2012. He didn't seek re-election to the House in 2012.
Date: January 11, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: education;federal budget
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Paul’s comment to CBS News, reflecting on a shorter period than his 2007 , holds up by comparing spending in 2006 and 2001. However, in the last budget adopted when Republicans held full sway, the department's appropriation was 60 percent higher than in 2001, 36 percent accounting for inflation. That’s an increase, but not a doubling. One could also say Republicans cut the department’s appropriation between 2006 and 2007. Paul’s recent statement rates .
Statement: No poll done this year ... shows less than a majority to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons.
Speaker: dianne feinstein
About the speaker: Dianne Feinstein is a Democratic U.S. Senator from California.
Date: April 17, 2013
Location: national
Topics: polls and public opinion;guns
Context: a speech on the Senate floor
Fact-check justification: Feinstein claimed that a majority of the American people supported her bill, saying "no poll done this year ... shows less than a majority to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons." She's largely accurate, though the "majority" in two national polls wasn’t statistically significant, and a poll by a libertarian foundation showed less than majority support for prohibiting assault weapon ownership. Meanwhile, limiting her statement to "this year" excluded a USA Today/Gallup poll from December that undermined her point. Still, the libertarian poll went beyond Feinstein’s proposal, which didn’t prohibit ownership of assault weapons by those who already own them. Otherwise, two polls teetered on the edge of majority support, while 15 others unequivocally supported her . We rate her statement .
Statement: Says border "crossings remain at historically low levels.
Speaker: david price
About the speaker: David Price is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represents District 4, which covers orange County and parts of Durham and Wake counties.
Date: February 14, 2019
Location: north carolina
Topics: immigration
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Price said "crossings (at the border) remain at historically low levels." The number of border patrol apprehensions in 2017 was the lowest in 45 years, and the number in 2018 is slightly higher but still low, especially relative to the peak in 2000. Illegal crossings have been trending down since 2006, with some year-to-year fluctuations. But apprehension totals were far lower in the 1960s, so a more accurate statement would have said crossings in 2017 were the lowest they had been since 1971. We rate the statement . This story was produced by the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, a partnership of McClatchy Carolinas, the Duke University Reporters’ Lab and PolitiFact. The NC Local News Lab Fund and the International Center for Journalists provide support for the project, which shares fact-checks with newsrooms statewide. To offer ideas for fact checks, email  [email protected]
Statement: In 2006, Donald Trump was hoping for a real estate crash.
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: May 24, 2016
Location: national
Topics: bankruptcy;candidate biography;debt;economy;history;housing;income;jobs;stimulus;wealth
Context: an advertisement
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, "In 2006, Donald Trump was hoping for a real estate crash." He said on more than one occasion that he welcomed a downturn in the real estate market because it would give him a chance to buy properties at a bargain and sell them at a higher price later. That's the essence of profitable investing. What's far less clear is whether Trump was rooting for something on the scale of the Great Recession, a suggestion made in the Clinton ad. In fact, his comments in his audiobook and to the Globe and Mail show that he didn't envision the financial meltdown that followed. Because Clinton's statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, we rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/476b3221-a0ce-40cc-ba96-56605fcd50b1
Statement: Demand for transportation choice is on the rise, with 14 percent more Ohioans riding passenger trains over the past year.
Speaker: ohio department of transportation
About the speaker: The Ohio Department of Transportation is the state agency charged with maintaining Ohio's state roadways. It also oversees a $400 million passenger rail projected funded by money from federal stimulus money.
Date: October 25, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: federal budget;infrastructure;transportation
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: "We have not issued an audit report in which these or similar questions came up." Amtrak confirmed the figures on which ODOT relied to boast about Ohio’s spike in passenger rail ridership. The railroad’s method of counting passengers does leave some room for inflation. But since the same counting method was used in 2009 and 2010, such increases would occur in both years so the impact on the data would be consistent. We rate the statement .
Statement: There are "500 failing schools in North Carolina
Speaker: americans for prosperity, north carolina chapter
About the speaker: Americans For Prosperity, a conservative political group, has a North Carolina branch that's active in state politics.
Date: June 1, 2016
Location: north carolina
Topics: children;education;poverty
Context: an official statement
Fact-check justification: It’s hard to say exactly how many failing schools are in North Carolina, but we do know there are not 500 like AFP state director Donald Bryson said. He was referring to low-performing schools, but the majority of low-performing schools are D schools – which most people don’t consider failing. We counted failing schools in a number of ways, with the results ranging from 80 to 415 depending on the grading scale used to define what an F is. Any way you slice it there are clearly dozens, and maybe hundreds, of failing schools statewide. Bryson’s statement was overly broad, but it’s not totally . We rate this  .
Statement: We send a billion dollars to foreign countries every day because of our addiction to foreign oil.
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: February 21, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: Austin, Texas
Fact-check justification: That number has since dropped a bit – to $98.86 as of Friday afternoon. Redoing the math, what we spend abroad comes awfully close to the billion-dollar figure Obama quotes. It's 998.2 million. We'll allow him to round up. Obama gets a gold star in math, and we find his statement .
Statement: John Fetterman "is suing for the right to cheat and steal the election.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: November 8, 2022
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: elections
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post said Fetterman "is suing for the right to cheat and steal the election." Fetterman’s campaign along with national Democratic groups filed a lawsuit Nov. 7 seeking to require counties to count undated or incorrectly dated ballots. Both parties have sued over such ballots, and they have a right to seek action from the courts. That is not akin to election stealing. We rate this  . RELATED : Trump’s  that a PA Supreme Court ruling proves the 2020 results were rigged is ! RELATED : Trump falsely said Democrats are playing ‘games’ with ‘unverified’ ballots in Pennsylvania RELATED : Facebook post wrongly says court ordered Pennsylvania to finish ballot counting on Election Day
Statement: We're also using a sterilization process ― some great equipment that will sterilize masks up to 20 times per mask. So that's like ordering 20 times more masks.
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 23, 2020
Topics: health check;coronavirus
Context: comments made during a White House media briefing on the coronavirus
Fact-check justification: In describing ongoing efforts to reuse protective respirators, Trump said the United States is using "some great equipment that will sterilize masks up to 20 times per mask." That, he argued, "is like ordering 20 times more masks." It is  that technology exists to sterilize N95s up to 20 times. But there are knowledge gaps and other shortcomings that limit how effective this process is. Government authorities and health care researchers are clear that this is a crisis measure and it is in no way as effective as "ordering 20 times more masks." The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details that undermine the president’s point. We rate it .