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Statement: Says the changes to the State Health Plan "will DENY North Carolina state employees, retirees, and their families of in-network access to critical healthcare services.
Speaker: north carolina healthcare association
About the speaker: The North Carolina Healthcare Association is an organization that lobbies for hospitals and other health-care providers.
Date: July 7, 2019
Location: north carolina
Topics: health care
Context: the News & Observer
Fact-check justification: The health association’s  says Folwell’s plan would "DENY North Carolina state employees, retirees, and their families of in-network access to critical healthcare services. Because Folwell’s health-care design is unattractive to health-care providers, many doctors and hospitals have not signed on to his insurance program. Because of this, Folwell’s changes would cause some State Health Plan members to lose in-network access to providers, which would most affect people in rural areas who don’t have an in-network provider in their vicinity. However, the statement leaves out the fact that members would only lose access because providers — including members of the very interest group making the  — will not sign on to the plan. Additionally, many State Health Plan members would actually save money in out-of-pocket costs that they pay toward their insurance. We rate this 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: Says Hillary Clinton's approval rating went from 70 percent to 52 percent in 18 months.
Speaker: reince priebus
About the speaker: Reince Priebus was the first chief of staff to President Donald Trump, replaced by John Kelly in July 2017. Priebus was previously chairman of the Republican National Committee, a post he assumed in 2011. He is also the former chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. He was an unsuccessful Wisconsin state Senate candidate in 2004. He is a Kenosha, Wis., native and lawyer.
Date: June 15, 2014
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;polls and public opinion
Context: interview on "Face the Nation."
Fact-check justification: Priebus said Clinton "went from a 70-percent approval rating" down to "about 52" in 18 months. Her favorability dropped 18 points in one poll from Bloomberg during that time. But Bloomberg’s poll from December 2012 had Clinton’s favorability 12 points higher than the average poll taken around the same period. It’s  Clinton’s numbers are down overall since the end of 2012, so we’ll give Priebus credit for identifying the trend and accurately citing one recent poll, but we’ll also knock him a few points for cherry-picking his findings to exaggerate her fall. On balance, we rate his statement .
Statement: Says Ruben Kihuen "only managed in the minority to get one bill passed out of the eight to 10 he introduced" during the 2015 legislative session.
Speaker: lucy flores
About the speaker: Lucy Flores is a former Nevada assemblywoman and Democratic candidate for Nevada's Fourth Congressional District in 2016. She ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 2014 after serving four years in the state Assembly.
Date: January 21, 2016
Location: nevada
Topics: candidate biography
Context: Pahrump, Nev
Fact-check justification: Flores said Kihuen "only managed in the minority to get one bill passed out of the eight to 10 he introduced" during the 2015 legislative session. Flores is technically accurate in her criticism. But the insinuation that he was an ineffective legislator because of that ignores some important context about the realities of being in the minority party and his role in passing other legislation behind the scenes. Her  is accurate but needs additional context. We rate the  .
Statement: When it comes to transportation funds, Georgians spend more in taxes and on red tape than they get back from the federal government.
Speaker: tom graves
About the speaker: Tom Graves represents Georgia's 9th Congressional District.
Date: March 7, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: transportation;taxes
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: And studies show he has an interesting argument. Do these regulations result in Georgia getting a net result of less money back than it collects from gas taxes? It could be, but there’s no definitive data that show what the specific impact is in Georgia. Until we see some research specific to Georgia, we believe Graves’  requires some caution. With these caveats, we rate the Graves'  .
Statement: Obamacare has led to fewer health insurance options for millions of Americans.
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: June 21, 2017
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a White House tweet
Fact-check justification: The White House tweeted that Obamacare has led to fewer health insurance options for millions of Americans. About 20 million more people have insurance today than before, directly as a result of the new health care law. The White House neglects that critical point. The sole thread of  is that with the insurance exchanges set up by the law, the number of carriers has dwindled. That is a real problem, but as experts and insurance companies have noted, that is partly a result of what this administration has done. Its policies on spending and enforcement have undercut the ability of carriers to participate in the exchanges. We rate this  .
Statement: My debt to GDP was the lowest or one of the lowest of modern presidents. My taxes to GDP was the lowest and my spending to GDP" was too.
Speaker: george w. bush
About the speaker: George W. Bush served as the 43rd president of the United States. He was sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2001, re-elected on Nov. 2, 2004, and sworn in for a second term on Jan. 20, 2005. Prior to his presidency, President Bush served six years as the 46th governor of the state of Texas.
Date: November 8, 2010
Location: national
Topics: deficit;federal budget;history;taxes
Context: an interview on NBC's "Today Show"
Fact-check justification: George W. Bush is correct that he outperformed his father, Reagan and () Clinton. So if you consider those the "modern" presidents, he's essentially right. If you broaden the "modern presidents" to include those serving in the entire post-World War II period, Bush is about average. While we wouldn't have chosen to define the "modern presidents" to include just the four that Bush mentioned by name, we'll give him some deference in framing the question. So we rate his statement .
Statement: The United States spent "2 trillion dollars to train and equip the Afghan military over the past 20 years. They fell in a week.
Speaker: richard ojeda
About the speaker: Richard Ojeda, a U.S. Army veteran and Democratic state senator, ran unsuccessfully for a U.S. House seat in West Virginia in 2018. He has announced his interest in pursuing the presidency in 2020.
Date: August 15, 2021
Location: west virginia
Topics: afghanistan;military
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Ojeda said the U.S. had "2 trillion dollars to train and equip the Afghan military over the past 20 years. They fell in a week." While the U.S. is credibly estimated to have spent more than $2 trillion during its involvement, only a fraction of that -- an estimated $83 billion -- was specifically spent on training and equipping Afghan military and security forces. Meanwhile, the Afghan military went into something of a freefall about nine days before Kabul fell, but it’s worth noting that the Taliban had begun making steady advances about three months before Kabul’s fall. We rate this  . Amy Sherman contributed to this article.
Statement: Says the Koch brothers want to "protect tax cuts for companies that ship our jobs overseas.
Speaker: senate majority pac
About the speaker: Senate Majority PAC is a super PAC that works to elect Democrats to the U.S. Senate.
Date: March 13, 2014
Location: national
Topics: congress;economy;jobs;taxes
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Senate Majority PAC claimed the Koch brothers sought to "protect tax cuts for companies that ship our jobs overseas." The ad is  in two ways. For starters, there are no carved-out tax cuts for companies that outsource work. There is a standard deduction companies can utilize when they move, but it can be used at home and abroad. Secondly, the organization pinned the Koch brothers’ opposition to a statement from Americans for Tax Reform, a conservative group that has received only limited funding from the Koch network and never took an official position on the legislation. Americans for Prosperity, a group closer to the Koch brothers, also took no position. A note to ad makers: Supporting negative claims with flimsy  won’t win you points on the -O-Meter. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Donald Trump's first 17 Cabinet appointments "have a net worth of more than a third of America.
Speaker: mark pocan
About the speaker: Mark Pocan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2nd Congressional District on Nov. 6, 2012. He is from Madison and previously served as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin state Assembly. 
Date: December 16, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corporations;debt;income;wealth
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating was  . Based on the collective wealth of seven Sam Walton descendants, they could face a tax of about $53 billion under the current estate tax law, but there were other factors to take into account. →  Previously, while still challenging Clinton for the nomination, Sanders said in Madison that "the top one-tenth of 1 percent" of Americans "own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent." That merited a  . His  repeated the finding of a study by two internationally known economists, though some criticized the study for not including Social Security in the wealth calculations.
Statement: The top 1 percent in recent years has earned 85 percent of all new income.
Speaker: bernie sanders
About the speaker: Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
Date: July 25, 2016
Location: national
Topics: income
Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: Sanders said, "The top 1 percent in recent years has earned 85 percent of all new income." That figure covers 2009 to 2013, but there’s data for even more recent years. Factoring in 2014 and 2015, the top 1 percent’s share in post-recession income falls to 52 percent. That’s still a big number, but not nearly what Sanders told convention delegates and a large television audience. We rate his  .
Statement: Over 70% of the people support Roe v. Wade. Over 90% of the people support funding for Planned Parenthood and making sure women can get the health care they need.
Speaker: amy klobuchar
About the speaker: Amy Klobuchar is a senator from Minnesota. Klobuchar was elected as senator in 2006 and re-elected in 2012 and 2018. Klobuchar received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. In 2019, she announced she was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out March 2, 2020.
Date: November 20, 2019
Topics: abortion;health care;health check
Context: comments at Democratic debate
Fact-check justification: Klobuchar cited two statistics at the debate: More than 70% of Americans support Roe vs. Wade, and more than 90% support funding Planned Parenthood. Both these ideas appear to have majority support. But we couldn’t find compelling  for the 90% figure — polls focused on this particular issue suggest support is somewhat lower. With one of these statistics correct, and the other based on a different, broader polling question, we rate this  .
Statement: Under the cap-and-trade bill, homes would have to be retrofitted to meet energy and water efficiency standards before they could be sold.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: November 23, 2009
Location: national
Topics: environment;energy
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: "It does not make them a condition of sale."    This fact-check is clear-cut. There's nothing in the bill that would require homeowners to retrofit their homes to meet new efficiency standards or get a government "license" before putting their home on the market. Homeowners who do want to retrofit their homes can do so voluntarily and with the help of government funding. This chain e-mail gets a !
Statement: The senior senator from Arizona (John McCain) said he couldn't support repealing 'don't ask, don't tell' because of the economy.
Speaker: harry reid
About the speaker: Harry Reid is a former U.S. senator from Nevada. He served as the Democratic minority leader in the U.S. Senate immediately prior to leaving office.
Date: December 4, 2010
Location: national
Topics: economy;lgbtq;military
Context: the Senate floor
Fact-check justification: When Reid claimed, "the senior senator from Arizona said he couldn't support repealing 'don't ask, don't tell' because of the economy," the implication seems to be that McCain was making an argument that "don't ask, don't tell" would harm the economy. Especially when Reid added, "I have no idea what he's talking about, and no one else does either." The policy's impact on the economy would be a confusing argument. But in context, McCain's reference to the economy was quite clearly ranking other priorities against it. We rule Reid's statement .
Statement: When @ScottWalker told firefighters we didn't need to worry about Act 10, we said hell no, we stand with working Wisconsinites everywhere.
Speaker: mahlon mitchell
About the speaker: Mahlon Mitchell has served as president of the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin union since January 2011. A Democrat, he lost to Republican Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch in Wisconsin's June 2012 recall elections. In November 2017, he announced his candidacy for governor in the 2018 election.
Date: January 17, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: legal issues;unions;workers
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Our rating In a tweet, Mitchell said the first response of him and his union to the Walker proposals that became Act 10 was to reject them and "stand with working Wisconsinites everywhere." Mitchell did ultimately join the other union leaders in opposing the measure, leading marches and even bunking in the Capitol to protest the legislation. But his first response was to "applaud" Walker for recognizing that firefighters were "unique" among public employees. That’s a lot closer to "yes, please" than "hell no." We rate Mitchell’s  .
Statement: John Kerry was at 4 percent in the polls in December of 2003...and he ended up becoming the nominee of the party.
Speaker: chris dodd
About the speaker: Chris Dodd is a former U.S. senator from Connecticut, having served in that post from 1981-2011. Dodd also ran unsuccessfully for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination and was a member of the U.S. House prior to his service in the Senate. He was born in Connecticut in 1944, graduated from Providence College and earned a law degree from the University of Louisville. Dodd is married to Jackie Marie Clegg. They have two children.
Date: August 29, 2007
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: an interview on CNN's <i>The Situation Room</i>
Fact-check justification: He's topped out at 2 percent about five times. Even Carol Moseley Braun polled better in 2004. And anyway, does Dodd really want to be comparing himself to Kerry? Refresh our memory here, but didn't the senator from Massachusetts ultimately — what's that word again? — lose?
Statement: According to one study, the minimum wage today is worth $2 less than in 1968.
Speaker: david cicilline
About the speaker: David Cicilline was elected to the 1st Congressional District in 2010. Before that, he was mayor of Providence, beginning in January, 2003. A Brown University graduate, he received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
Date: February 11, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;income;jobs;labor
Context: a House floor speech
Fact-check justification: That's pretty close. By another measure, it's even more: $3.46. His underlying point -- that the minimum wage has significantly less buying power than it had 45 years ago -- is correct, and the erosion in the minimum wage is even more dramatic if you use the conventional cost of living index. We rate his statement  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Says Barack Obama began his presidency "with an apology tour.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: October 16, 2012
Location: national
Topics: debates;foreign policy
Context: the second presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Once again, Romney has accused Obama of beginning his presidency "with an apology tour." Our reviews of Obama’s 2009 foreign travels and speeches showed no such thing. While he criticized past U.S. actions, such as torture practices at Guantanamo, he did not offer one  apology. It’s  to call Obama’s foreign visits and remarks "an apology tour." We rate this statement !
Statement: Water rates in Manila, Philippines, "were raised up to 845 percent" when a subsidiary of the World Bank became a partial owner.
Speaker: gwen moore
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore is a Democratic member of Congress, representing Wisconsin's 4th District, which primarily includes Milwaukee. Moore, who served in the state Legislature from 1989 to 2004, was elected to Congress in 2004.
Date: April 27, 2016
Topics: global news service;financial regulation;foreign policy;water
Context: a congressional hearing
Fact-check justification: Moore said that when the International Finance Corporation became a part-owner of Manila Water, rates rose 845 percent. The source cited by Moore’s staff undermines that number. The International Finance Corporation bought its stake in 2004. Between 2004 and 2012, rates rose about 170 percent. Moore incorrectly used a figure that would apply to the period from 1997 to 2012. However, the IFC crafted the plan for privatization in the first place. All parties knew that important capital investments would follow, and that rates would go up. It is also  that in terms of the actual size of a family’s water bill, rates rose faster each year after the IFC bought its share than before. Moore wrongly pegged the rate increase to the date of IFC’s equity position, but the development corporation played a key role from the start. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/c3d24c04-cbbd-4742-8c79-10b2e96cd9d4
Statement: Likens Obama's predicament to 1982, saying, "when Reagan just started out, (unemployment was at) exactly the same point. He was two years into his term. The unemployment was well over 10 percent, and it did come out of it.
Speaker: mary jordan
About the speaker: Mary Jordan is moderator of Washington Post Live, a conference and events arm of the Washington Post. She was the Washington Post's co-bureau chief in Tokyo from 1995 to 1999 and in Mexico City from 2000 to 2005.
Date: September 5, 2010
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;this week - abc news;workers
Context: a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
Fact-check justification: And that's not a blip. For nearly a year, the median duration of unemployment has ranged between 19 and 25.5 weeks. So Jordan is right that there are some similarities between the recessions of 1982 and 2010. But she glosses over the fact that unemployment didn't go "well over 10 percent" in 1982 until after the election, and her use of the overall unemployment rate overlooks an important factor -- that workers this year are likely to have been without jobs much longer. On balance, we rate Jordan's comment .
Statement: In 2008, "only 54 percent of Latinos in Texas were registered to vote and only 35 percent actually turned out.
Speaker: battleground texas
About the speaker: Battleground Texas, a political action committee, was announced in early 2013 as an effort to help Democrats win statewide races in Texas.
Date: February 26, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: elections;population
Context: an adviser's interview on the "Colbert Report."
Fact-check justification:   The Battleground Texas advocate said that in 2008, "only 54 percent of Latinos in Texas were registered to vote and only 35 percent actually turned out." Research rooted in federal surveys and an analysis starting from the state's 2008 voting roll supports those figures, while our own estimates starting from Texas studies suggest a larger share of voting-age Latino citizens registered and a smaller share of them voted--which, if so, could still be fodder for pushes to improve participation. We rate this  as .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton's "plan is going to raise taxes and even double your taxes.
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: October 19, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy;income;taxes
Context: the third 2016 presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Trump said that Clinton’s tax proposal "is going to raise taxes and even double your taxes." Independent analyses found that the vast majority of taxpayers would see tax cuts or no change to their tax bill under the Clinton plan. The richest taxpayers would see increases -- and the very richest could see significant increases -- but even the typical rich taxpayer would not see their taxes double. Analysts said it’s possible that specific wealthy taxpayers with a certain confluence of income streams might see their taxes double, but that would be the exception that proves the rule. We rate Trump’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/67b81a1f-6064-4072-a9af-b6ee7c595bbd