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Statement: Since the first of the year, 153 businesses at last count had moved out of California to Texas.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: November 4, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: economy
Context: on an episode of Fox & Friends
Fact-check justification: And if it surfaces, we'll consider revisiting this subject. Still, based on the limited information D&B has shared, it looks like Texas netted 61 business sites from California from January through August, less than half the one-way total that Perry cites. Also, as D&B advised us, not all of the 153 sites that came here from there necessarily reflect whole companies making the move east. Instead, the 153 moves could have involved individual offices or branches of firms that continue to do business in California. We rate Perry's statement .
Statement: Says Marco Rubio's "proposed college affordability overhaul would specifically benefit for-profit colleges.
Speaker: american bridge 21st century
About the speaker: American Bridge 21st Century is a Democratic super PAC.
Date: August 10, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: American Bridge 21st Century said Rubio’s "proposed college affordability overhaul would specifically benefit for-profit colleges." Rubio has suggested revamping the accreditation process to allow "innovative providers" to become accredited. Exactly which schools or programs he means and why they need to be accredited is up for debate, because Rubio hasn’t given any details. That makes it extremely difficult for American Bridge to say the change is specifically to help for-profit colleges, despite Rubio's past affinity for the businesses. Many for-profit schools already are accredited, although experts say others may potentially benefit from Rubio’s plan. Rubio's plan is not specific in benefiting for-profit colleges, so we rate American Bridge’s statement .
Statement: It is already in the law that there is a requirement to screen (refugees) for religion.
Speaker: jeb bush
About the speaker: Jeb Bush was a Republican candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He served two terms as the governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is also the brother of former President George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush. 
Date: November 29, 2015
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;religion;terrorism
Context: an interview on "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: Bush said that there is a legal requirement to screen for religion. U.S. immigration law does state that American officials must dig into a person’s religion if their refugee status is based on a fear of religious persecution. However, there is no formal requirement if the person bases the  on other grounds. In practice, questions about religion are common even if they are not required. His statement is accurate but needs clarification. We rate it .
Statement: The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol "was a dust-up.
Speaker: jack del rio
About the speaker: Jack Del Rio is the defensive coordinator for the Washington Commanders football team.
Date: June 8, 2022
Location: national
Topics: jan. 6
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Del Rio dismissed the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as a "dust-up." It was much more than that. Extensive  shows that the crowd of Trump supporters broke down barricades, attacked police, scaled walls, shattered windows and broke into offices in a violent effort to disrupt the transition of presidential power.  We rate this  . RELATED: The 2021 Lie of the Year: Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance RELATED: PolitiFact’s Jan. 6 coverage
Statement: It's just been announced that the residents of Florida are going to experience a massive, double-digit premium hike.
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: November 3, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: health care;regulation
Context: a campaign speech
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "It's just been announced that the residents of Florida are going to experience a massive, double-digit premium hike." The state announced in September that ACA-compliant plans would see an average premium hike of 19.1 percent. That’s lower than the national average of 25 percent, but is still a sizable increase. Most people who buy those policies qualify for federal subsidies, however, so they likely won’t see an increase as high as Trump is implying. And the vast majority of Floridians get their insurance through their job, where increases aren’t going to be as high. Those are important points he didn’t mention, so we rate his statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/cc6699ef-5777-4860-a17e-dcf06d0032a5
Statement: Says George Soros has "unloaded a whopping $1 million to install his liberal puppets in positions of power" in Texas this fall.
Speaker: greg abbott
About the speaker: Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
Date: April 2, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: campaign finance
Context: a campaign fundraising letter
Fact-check justification: Abbott warned in his letter that Soros has spent $1 million to "install his liberal puppets in positions of power" in Texas this fall. We confirmed Soros spending in Texas, but he's yet to put a penny toward Democrats seeking state office. The New Yorker gave a little more than $1 million to a committee that helped a challenger win the Democratic nod for Bexar County district attorney. He gave $2,700 to O’Rourke, who went on to win the Democratic Senate nomination. All told, we rate this  .  – 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: Pope Francis is dead.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 20, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "  On April 21, he also addressed the public from the Vatican during what’s known as a general audience.    On April 22, he delivered a message for Earth Day , but it was pre-recorded.   We found nothing to suggest that he is dead. There is no news coverage, nor any credible reports from the Vatican or elsewhere.    We rate this  .
Statement: North Korea is "the fifth or fourth most sanctioned nation.
Speaker: cory gardner
About the speaker: Cory Gardner, a Republican, won a seat to represent Colorado in the U.S. Senate in 2014. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Colorado House of Representatives.
Date: September 24, 2017
Location: national
Topics: homeland security
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Gardner said, "(North Korea) is now the fifth or fourth most sanctioned nation." A paper by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies ranks North Korea as the fourth most sanctioned country, behind Ukraine/Russia, Syria and Iran, respectively. According to the paper’s author, rankings were based on the Treasury Department’s list of sanctioned people and entities. The Treasury Department did not confirm the rankings. However, experts we spoke to said ranking countries based solely on its number of sanctions was problematic because numbers alone wouldn’t necessarily capture the total impact of sanctions. We rate this
Statement: We're spending millions for each individual" held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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: December 21, 2014
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;terrorism
Context: comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "We’re spending millions for each individual" detained at Guantanamo. The Pentagon has reported that Guantanamo’s cost comes down to about $3 million per detainee per year -- just under 100 times the average annual cost of a federal prisoner. We rate Obama’s  . Editor's note: After this item was published, the Pentagon provided additional information showing Guantanamo's actual costs for 2014, whereas the article previously cited projections. The article has been updated to reflect the new information, which does not affect the ruling.
Statement: Suggests that "since mostly Democrats vote early" then that represents "made-up ballots or dead people voting.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: November 6, 2022
Location: national
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: A Nov. 6 Instagram post claimed that "since  Democrats vote early" then that represents "made-up ballots or dead people voting." There is no  of widespread fraud in the 2022 midterms, which were underway when this post was made. There are specific security measures in place to prevent the counting of fabricated ballots and votes cast illegally under a dead person’s name. More than 40 million people voted early. In some states, most early voters are Democrats, but that’s not the case in other states. We rate this  . RELATED: Ask PolitiFact: What steps do election officials take to prevent fraud? RELATED: All of our fact-checks about voting and elections
Statement: In the last five years only one out of 60 -- one out of 60 -- appropriations bills has been passed on time before the end of the fiscal year.
Speaker: tom price
About the speaker: Rep. Tom Price is the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration. Previously, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 6th District of Georgia, an area that includes Marietta and Canton.
Date: November 30, 2016
Location: georgia
Topics: federal budget
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Health secretary nominee Tom Price said, "In the last five years only one out of 60 -- one out of 60 -- appropriations bills has been passed on time before the end of the fiscal year." And that’s basically . Congress has turned to omnibus spending bills and continuing resolutions to fund the government for the last couple of years, which differ from full appropriations bills. However, in the last five years, appropriations bills were passed by individual chambers before the end of the fiscal year, they just weren’t matched by the other chamber or reconciled. Even then, all but one was signed into law by the president (and enacted) after Oct. 1. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says President Barack Obama's nominees met a standard of 60 votes, "a standard that was met by Elena Kagan as well as Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's choices.
Speaker: richard durbin
About the speaker: Dick Durbin in the senior U.S. senator from Illinois and the Democratic majority whip.
Date: February 1, 2017
Location: illinois
Topics: supreme court
Context: a interview on Morning Joe
Fact-check justification: Our rating In an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show, Durbin said Obama’s nominees met a standard of 60 votes, "a standard that was met by Elena Kagan as well as Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's choices." Obama’s nominees cleared the procedural hurdles and won 60 votes and then some. The Senate confirmed Kagan by a roll call vote of 63-37 in 2010, and Sotomayor was confirmed in 2009 by a vote of 68-31 . Kagan and Sotomayor ultimately would have had enough votes to be able to break a filibuster, but they never had to -- and the margins they got on the final, simple-majority vote can’t be used to retroactively define what the "standard" was. We rate the statement .
Statement: President Joe Biden's American Relief Plan "has a lot of money in it for schools, but if you really look at it … it says that the school money is going to go out until the year 2028.
Speaker: shelley moore capito
About the speaker: Shelley Moore Capito is a U.S. Representative from West Virginia and a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate.
Date: March 4, 2021
Location: west virginia
Topics: education;federal budget
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Capito said that the American Relief Plan "has a lot of money in it for schools, but if you really look at it … it says that the school money is going to go out until the year 2028. This is supposed to be an emergency bill." She is correct that spending on K-12 education will continue through 2028, though 90% will be spent between now and 2025. Her statement is accurate but needs additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: A report just came out that if we continue with President Obama's policies, we're looking at over 9 percent unemployment next year in the fourth quarter.
Speaker: michele bachmann
About the speaker: Michele Bachmann, first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, represents the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was reelected in 2008. Previously, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. Prior to that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.
Date: August 27, 2012
Location: national
Topics: economy;federal budget;jobs
Context: a Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: Bachmann said, "a report just came out that if we continue with President Obama's policies, we're looking at over 9 percent unemployment next year in the fourth quarter." But that jobless rate is based a projection of "current law," which would only happen as a result of a standoff between Congress and the president, not Obama’s own policy priorities. Unemployment would rise in the face of immediate deficit reduction — something that more closely resembles Bachmann’s preference than the president’s. The 9 percent unemployment figure is mentioned in the CBO study, but it is  for Bachmann to say it is under Obama's policies. We rate the  .
Statement: My opponent... lost 43,000 jobs in Houston since he took over; we are losing jobs.
Speaker: farouk shami
About the speaker: Farouk Shami is a Palestinian-born businessman from Houston. He is the founder and chairman of Farouk Systems, Inc., a $1 billion corporation known for it's BioSilk and CHI hair care product lines.
Date: February 8, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: economy
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: First, he distorted unemployment in the Houston area. It's  that the raw number of unemployed people increased by more than 42,000 (not 43,000, as Shami claimed) while White was mayor. But the number of unemployed people doesn't translate to the number of jobs lost in Houston. Second, Shami chose not to factor in the share of Harris County residents who were employed, which increased during White's tenure. We rate his  as .
Statement: Since he and Scott Walker took office in 2011, "60,000 new jobs have been created in this state -- 40,000 of them were created in Madison and the Madison area.
Speaker: paul soglin
About the speaker: Paul Soglin, a Democrat, is serving as mayor of Madison, Wis., for the third time. His first stint dated to 1973. He was most recently elected in April 2011. In January 2018, he announced his candidacy for governor in the 2018 election.
Date: June 18, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs;labor
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: But Soglin was citing figures for the number of people in the labor force -- that is, people who are employed plus people who are unemployed but looking for jobs. That’s not a count of jobs. The actual net increase in jobs in Wisconsin, comparing April 2011 versus May 2017, is much higher: 209,900. And the Madison area accounted for less than half of the increase. We rate Soglin’s statement .
Statement: Quotes Abraham Lincoln as saying, "You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 25, 2019
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: Facebook
Fact-check justification: On the front, the leaflet contained real quotes from Lincoln, but on the back, it contained the quote from Boetcker. Careless readers assumed the quote was linked to Lincoln.   Cornelius said it was common for people to use Lincoln’s name "to bring more attention to themselves. "  "I do not know if Boetcker himself, or conceivably some newspaper editor, put these into (Lincoln’s) mouth," Cornelius said, "but they have circulated as ‘real’ for 100 years now, with no sign of disappearing. "  We rate this  .
Statement: Even our attorney general who is a strong Democrat, she has said that we need causation in our workers' comp system. That's the No. 1 thing pushing our manufacturing jobs out of Illinois.
Speaker: bruce rauner
About the speaker: Bruce Rauner was elected governor of Illinois in 2014. He became the first Republican governor in the state in 12 years upon his inauguration in January 2015. The gubernatorial campaign was Rauner's first foray into politics. He previously had been a principal at the private equity firm GTCR in Chicago.
Date: September 19, 2016
Location: illinois
Topics: jobs
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Rauner said, "Even our attorney general who is a strong Democrat, she has said that we need causation in our workers’ comp system." In 2012, Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office went on record in considerable detail about the problems caused by Illinois’ lenient burden of proof for workers claiming workplace injury. The attorney general didn’t explicitly endorse the causation standard contained in a bill before the General Assembly at that time, but said the bill "provides an opportunity to discuss the appropriate language to make this needed change." Today, even as this issue has become a focal point in Rauner’s deadlock with Speaker Madigan, Attorney General Madigan’s office maintains that the state should find "reasonable ways" to protect the rights of injured workers and employers. We rate Rauner’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/4d40d9ba-0159-4404-a764-69d792bbe061
Statement: The U.S. had 44 CDC staffers "in China to observe what was going on. (President Trump) brought home the vast majority of them, I think left only four in place.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: May 14, 2020
Location: national
Topics: coronavirus
Context: an interview on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Biden said that Trump "brought home" the vast majority of CDC staff in China, taking manpower from 44 down to four. He garbled the numbers. The actual staffing went from eight Americans and 39 Chinese (47), to three Americans and 11 Chinese (14). But within that, the American staff working specifically on new threats like COVID-19 went from four to zero. It is unclear whether the presence of those Americans would have provided an early warning. But the former head of the CDC said it was possible, and many global health groups lobbied for the overall program to continue. The White House decided not to ask for funds to maintain that program in China. Biden was off on his numbers, but the specific staffing details we later found add weight to the thrust of his argument. We rate this  .
Statement: Protests of (Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence) at a Los Angeles Dodgers game led to a "virtually empty stadium for the game itself.
Speaker: ron desantis
About the speaker: Ron DeSantis announced on May 24, 2023 that he is running for president in the Republican primary. DeSantis won the race for Florida governor in 2018 and 2022. DeSantis was first elected to Congress in 2012 and resigned in September 2018 to focus on his campaign. He represented Florida's 6th Congressional District which is south of St. Augustine and north of Orlando and includes Daytona Beach. DeSantis initially ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 but dropped out after Marco Rubio decided to seek re-election.
Date: June 17, 2023
Location: california
Topics: lgbtq;sports;florida
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: DeSantis said in a tweet that protests of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at a Los Angeles Dodgers game led to a "virtually empty stadium for the game itself." The photos he highlighted were taken an hour before the first pitch. The team honored the LGBTQ+ group much earlier than typical pregame events because of safety concerns. Video of the game showed a crowded stadium. The team reported selling about 49,000 tickets, slightly higher than average for this season. The stadium wasn’t "virtually empty" during the game as a result of protests. We rate DeSantis’ statement . RELATED : All of our fact-checks of DeSantis   RELATED : Fact-checking 2024 presidential candidates, who’s running
Statement: CNN to permanently close its doors as ratings plunge 30 percent.
Speaker: yournewswire.com
About the speaker: A website associated with fake news.
Date: May 18, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: While Trump uses the term " news" to describe news coverage that is unsympathetic to his administration and his performance, at PolitiFact we refer to  news as fabricated content that intentionally masquerades as news coverage of actual events. Statements by Trump have been named PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year award twice. Your News Wire said in a headline "CNN to permanently close its doors as ratings plunge 30 percent." While the ratings drop during the second week of May compared to a year ago is real, the conclusion that CNN is going out of business is nonsense. We rate this statement .
Statement: Roy Blunt "voted to raise his own pay 12 times" while in Congress.
Speaker: jason kander
About the speaker: Jason Kander, a Democrat, is the Missouri secretary of state and is challenging U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., in 2016.
Date: August 10, 2016
Location: missouri
Topics: candidate biography;voting record
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Kander said "Blunt voted to raise his own pay 12 times" while in Congress. This is a  attack. Blunt did not literally vote to increase his pay 12 times. He voted in support of measures that could have blocked or limited automatic cost-of-living increases from taking effect. Even all of those cases aren’t clear-cut, as sometimes Blunt sided with efforts to stop the automatic pay increase. Kander’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/dbb9976c-3393-4a9a-aade-aed04f05f843