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Statement: The United States is the only developed country in the world without paid maternity leave.
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: June 23, 2014
Location: national
Topics: jobs;women;workers
Context: an op-ed for Huffington Post
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "The United States is the only developed country in the world without paid maternity leave." The United States does not mandate cash benefits for workers on maternity leave at the federal level, and just a small fraction of its citizens live in states that require it or work for companies that provide it. In that regard, the United States is very different than the rest of the developed world, where at least some paid benefits exist in every country. It's worth noting, however, that paid maternity leave is far from a universal benefit in many developed countries. In some, as many as one-third of workers aren't actually covered for cash benefits, and six countries don't meet all of the International Labor Organizations guidelines for providing benefits.  We rate Obama’s statement .
Statement: Says Tammy Baldwin's "Medicare for All" plan means senior citizens would "no longer have" Medicare.
Speaker: leah vukmir
About the speaker: Republican Leah Vukmir was elected to the Wisconsin state Senate in 2010, representing a suburban Milwaukee district. She served in the state Assembly from 2002 to 2008. She lost a bid for the U.S. Senate in 2018.
Date: October 19, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;medicare;public health
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Our rating Vukmir says Baldwin’s "Medicare for All" means senior citizens would "no longer have" Medicare. Medicare, along with other government and private health insurance programs, would be replaced if Medicare for All ever became law. But it’s not as though senior citizens would lose Medicare and be left with nothing. In fact, as proposed, Medicare for All would provide them more benefits than they get with current Medicare. Vukmir’s statement has an element of , but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression — our definition of .
Statement: Myanmar used Dominion Voting Systems.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 1, 2021
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In a statement, a spokesperson for Dominion told PolitiFact: "This is a completely  . Dominion systems have never been used in Myanmar at any time. "  That’s corroborated by a report on the 2020 election in Myanmar, which doesn’t mention Dominion or any electronic voting system. Voters used paper ballots, folding them to ensure secrecy before dropping them in the ballot box.   We rate this post .
Statement: Says the Wisconsin Republican Party tweeted "Happy International Women's Day! You ladies should get paid less and not be able to make health care decisions.
Speaker: graeme zielinski
About the speaker: Graeme Zielinski served as spokesman for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin until March 2013, when he was removed from the post and made a media adviser for the party.
Date: March 8, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: women
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Our rating (in under 140 characters) In a tweet, Zielinski said the state GOP tweeted an insulting message about women. Not . He made it up. .
Statement: There is no science or data to suggest that kids are at risk from COVID.
Speaker: melissa melendez
About the speaker: California State Senator Melissa Melendez is a Republican and represents Riverside County.
Date: July 9, 2020
Location: california
Topics: education;public health;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: "  While children aren’t at a high risk for complications of the coronavirus, experts said the data is not yet clear about their role in transmitting it. There’s a tense debate nationally about whether reopening schools will lead to a greater spread of COVID-19 not just among children but also among family members and wider communities.   That debate is still playing out. What’s clear is that Melendez went too far in her , reducing a complicated topic to an oversimplified, unsupported tweet.   We rate her  .   – The statement is not accurate.
Statement: Says House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff "made up the conversation. He lied. If he didn't do that in the halls of Congress, he'd be thrown in jail. He did it in the halls of Congress, he's given immunity.
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: December 3, 2019
Location: national
Topics: legal issues
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Trump said Schiff "made up the conversation. He lied. If he didn't do that in the halls of Congress, he'd be thrown in jail. He did it in the halls of Congress, he's given immunity." It’s an exaggeration to say Schiff "made up" a conversation. But even setting aside the merits of Trump’s , it’s extremely unlikely for prosecutors to pursue criminal cases of libel or slander — far less likely than the certainty of imprisonment that Trump indicated.  To fall victim, an ordinary person would have to make the comments in one of the shrinking number of states with such laws, then attract the notice of a prosecutor willing to take the case, be convicted, be sentenced to prison rather than fined, and then have their conviction and sentence upheld as constitutional in a likely post-conviction challenge.  But the chance that this could happen to Schiff is essentially zero. In the jurisdiction where Schiff spoke — the District Columbia — such law doesn’t exist. Nor does it exist in federal law or in the law of his home state of California. We rate the statement .
Statement: A Jackson, Tennessee, employee passed out this morning from handling a dollar bill with fentanyl on it.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 21, 2022
Topics: drugs;public safety;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed a worker in Jackson, Tennessee, passed out from touching a dollar bill that was covered in fentanyl. We were unable to find any supporting  of the Jackson incident being reported to authorities or ever happening. But similar cases in the past have been reported in the media.  Medical experts have said the risk of becoming ill from fentanyl after touching an item covered in the drug is remote. Only a small amount of the drug would ever get absorbed through the skin and not nearly enough to cause opioid toxicity symptoms from developing, let alone an overdose. Symptoms reported by people who said they were exposed to fentanyl are also not consistent with opioid toxicity and are more in line with stress or anxiety, experts said.  We rate this .
Statement: When I saw corruption and sexual harassment cover-ups I called on Sheldon Silver to resign.
Speaker: michael kearns
About the speaker: Michael Kearns is county clerk in Erie County, New York. He is a registered Democrat but ran with Republican support. 
Date: October 23, 2017
Location: new york
Topics: ethics
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Kearns said when he "saw corruption and sexual harassment cover-ups I called on Sheldon Silver to resign." Kearns first called on Silver to resign in 2013. He even left the Democratic conference because he did not support Silver as speaker. His position never changed. We rate his  as .
Statement: Mark Warner voted for "nearly $1 trillion in new taxes and $7 trillion in new debt.
Speaker: ed gillespie
About the speaker: Ed Gillespie is a Republican strategist who currently runs the firm Ed Gillespie Strategies. He served as counselor to former President George W. Bush. Gillespie has announced he will run for Virginia governor in 2017. He narrowly lost a 2014 bid for the U.S. Senate to Democrat Mark Warner.
Date: January 16, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: debt;federal budget;voting record;taxes
Context: a web ad
Fact-check justification: Gillespie says Warner "voted for nearly $1 trillion in new taxes and $7 trillion in new debt." Although some economists might quibble with his debt figure, we don’t. We rate his statement .
Statement: There are prototype cars that get between 100 and 150 miles per gallon and "we could have those cars in your garages in a couple of years.
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 2, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: a speech at a Democratic Party dinner
Fact-check justification: "Candidates cannot both expect the prototypes to appear and try to argue for lower oil prices." Clinton is correct about there being prototypes that get more than 100 miles per gallon (at least according to some measures). But experts believe it is unlikely these plug-in hybrids will or even could be mass produced in just a "couple years" — as Clinton suggests. We hate to rain on Clinton's optimism, but the fact is that she significantly overstates the status of high-mileage vehicles. Best we can do is .
Statement: When President Biden took office … there was no vaccine available.
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 12, 2022
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The White House said, "When President Biden took office … there was no vaccine available." A vaccine did exist before Biden took office. In fact, Biden himself received his first shot about a month before he took office. In all, more than 20 million shots were administered while Trump was president. That said, the notion that the vaccine was not "widely available," as the White House’s corrected tweet put it, has better support. Initially, only health-care and other frontline workers, along with the most elderly Americans, were eligible. It took until several months into Biden’s presidency before non-elderly, non-immunocompromised Americans were able to get shots.  We rate the statement .
Statement: Quotes Trump as saying "would you really want a president who was dumb enough to let himself get drafted?
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 13, 2020
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The article also says the statement comes from "Meet the Press, Aug. 28," but a year is not listed. While the article doesn’t include a satire or parody disclaimer, it contains a subhead that says the piece’s content was published by "Yahoo University Press in 2022" and lists several other outlandish quotes from Republican politicians that don’t appear to be real. Bai also confirmed to PolitiFact that the piece was intended to be satire and that the quote is not real. There is no  that Trump actually said this and the only iteration we could find was in a satirical column. We rate it !
Statement: Since June 2009, about 48 percent of all the jobs created in America were in 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: June 14, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a cameo interview
Fact-check justification: The big picture, he said, is that Texas has fared better than other big states since the recession and indeed over the past 20 years, for reasons including, he said, "enlightened" leadership, demographics and the resurgent energy sector. Our take:The strength of the Texas economy, compared to many other states, isn’t in dispute. However, there are many ways to slice and dice employment statistics. The calculations behind the 48-percent boast may cover a less meaningful time frame while not weighing any jobs created in states with net job losses. Mark Perry’s statement .
Statement: Says federal health care overhaul will cost Texas state government "upwards of $30 billion over the next 10 years.
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: December 3, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: health care;state budget
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: But he errs on several fronts. The latest cost projection from the Texas health commission is $27 billion, not $30 billion; the estimate covers 2014 through 2023, not the next 10 years; and it speaks only to a single state entity, not all of state government. We rate Perry's statement . Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: Over 81 percent of the babies that are born at LBJ Hospital right here in Houston are born of women who are not here legally.
Speaker: debbie riddle
About the speaker: Debbie Riddle, of Tomball, has been a member of the Texas House since April 2002.
Date: August 10, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;children;families;health care;terrorism
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: The average over the past six years: 68 percent. If Riddle had said those deliveries constitute a clear majority, she'd be on solid ground. But that's not the  she made on national TV. As PolitiFact has noted before, numbers matter — and when it comes to issues as fractious as immigration and so-called "terror babies," politicians have an obligation to be scrupulously accurate. We rate her statement as .
Statement: A tax on soda and juice drinks would disproportionately increase taxes on low-income families in Philadelphia.
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: April 22, 2016
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: taxes
Context: In a statement to Philadelphia magazine
Fact-check justification: Sanders said Kenney’s proposed soda tax would disproportionately increase taxes for low income families. In the only other instance of a soda tax in the United States, studies have shown somewhere between 25 and 70 percent of the cost of the tax gets passed to consumers. Tax experts say if this tax reaches the consumer level it would affect low income residents to a greater extent.    We rule the  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/19db2be2-02d7-4cfd-baa1-423db2d4d80f
Statement: Video shows 'truth' that fungus may be the "next government project.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 16, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: But humans are not in danger from the fungus, scientists say . The fungus is used in Chinese medicine and can be found in herbal supplements . Human bodies are too warm to be infected with the fungus. While the interview depicted in the Facebook video may be alarming to viewers who aren’t familiar with the HBO show, it’s only science fiction. The  is .
Statement: The Supreme Court said the individual mandate "is a tax. So it's a tax.
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: July 4, 2012
Location: national
Topics: health care;legal issues;taxes
Context: an interview with CBS News
Fact-check justification: Romney said, "The Supreme Court has the final word. And their final word is that Obamacare is a tax. So it's a tax." If you put Romney’s comment under a legal microscope, there’s a strong case that he’s cut some rhetorical corners. The Supreme Court found the law constitutional based on Congress’ taxing authority, but nowhere in the opinion did Roberts say that the individual mandate actually was a tax -- only that it "may reasonably be characterized as a tax" and that "it is reasonable to construe" it as a tax. Still, PolitiFact focuses on political speech, rather than legal speech, and judged by that standard Romney is pretty close to accurate. We rate his statement .
Statement: That Kurt Russell said President Donald Trump is "relentless," "dedicated," "determined" and "courageous" and "stands there in the face of pure evil, rock solid & ready to fight for us. God bless this brave man.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 3, 2018
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: In addition to the fact that the account does not have a blue verified check mark signifying it is actually an account belonging to the famous actor Kurt Russell, the account’s Twitter biography states plainly, "I’m not Kurt Russell." Nevertheless, as of Monday afternoon, the tweet has been retweeted over 5,000 times and has more than 12,000 likes. Russell has had his quotes taken out of context before . This time, there is no indication that even a granule of the this quote originated with the actor. We rate this  !
Statement: Dan Webster supports "privatization of Social Security, deep cuts in Social Security.
Speaker: debbie wasserman schultz
About the speaker: Debbie Wasserman Schultz became the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 and resigned in July 2016. The Florida Democrat was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 after serving in the state senate. She represents Congressional District 23 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Date: August 24, 2010
Location: national
Topics: social security
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Webster's comments at the forum gave the impression he supported cuts, but he didn't specifically mention Social Security, and later he specifically said he didn't support cuts to the program. We're not sure whether Webster supports Ryan's plan, which isn't full privatization anyway. We have questions about Webster's position on Social Security, and we hope he will be more forthcoming as the campaign progresses. Still, that doesn't give Wasserman Schultz license to fill in the blanks. We rate her statement .
Statement: Says Biden had to take a private plane to D.C. instead of a government plane "because they know he's not a legitimate president" and "the military is now responsible for restoring legitimate civilian government.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 20, 2021
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: CNN reported that "a source familiar with the matter" said the government didn’t offer the Bidens a plane, but did not provide further details.   Regardless, Biden’s form of travel has nothing to do with the legitimacy of his presidency. The post is simply repeating variations of claims for which there is no credible  or factual basis.   We rate it . RELATED: Don't fall for rumors about a Trump-led military takeover, emergency alerts
Statement: AIG insures the pension trust of the United States Congress!
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: March 18, 2009
Location: national
Topics: corporations;federal budget;retirement
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: Instead, members accrue benefits based on how long they serve. In 2006, the average pension was about $61,000 a year for 20 years of service, according to the Congressional Research Service. If anyone insures congressional pensions, it's U.S. taxpayers, not AIG. The chain e-mail that claims AIG insures congressional pensions is just plain . In fact, we rate it !
Statement: Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs.
Speaker: john boehner
About the speaker: John Boehner of Ohio is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was formerly the Republican minority leader from 2007-2011, and was the majority leader briefly prior to that.
Date: February 15, 2011
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;workers
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: "We think 200,000 is probably generous to the White House," said Boehner spokesman Michael Steel. In previous fact checks , we have rejected the idea of adding temporary Census workers to federal job totals. While the statements we rated previously aren’t structured in exactly the same way as Boehner’s, we think the general principle remains valid -- that when you’re counting the rise or fall in the number of federal workers over a long period of time, it’s cherry picking to count the creation of temporary jobs but not their elimination. All told, we find that Boehner’s 200,000 number is way off. We rate it .