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Statement: Under (Rick Perry's) watch as governor, over six million Texans have no health care coverage, including one million children, homeowners suffer from the highest insurance rates in the country, and college tuition has skyrocketed 136 percent.
Speaker: democratic national committee
About the speaker: The Democratic National Committee is the national organization of Democrats.
Date: January 20, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: children;economy;education;health care
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: But the same analysis states that total tuition, meaning board-set tuition levels added to baseline amounts set by lawmakers, increased 69 percent on average. Separately, the Austin American-Statesman’s Ralph K.M. Haurwitz, who covers higher education, has tapped state figures to conclude that average tuition and mandatory fees — every student faces such fees — at the state’s public universities climbed 86 percent, to $6,300 a year, by fall 2008. All in all, the Democratic spokesman landed his health-insurance blows. But he slipped when he claimed Texas currently has the nation's highest home insurance rates and overshot on changes in tuition. We rate Ramirez’s statement .
Statement: E-mail quotes Maureen Dowd column that Obama has received suspicious contributions from Saudi Arabia, Iran and China.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: July 8, 2008
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: a chain e-mail sent to many people
Fact-check justification: The Obama campaign says it follows federal law and does not accept donations from foreign citizens. Donors must certify that "I am a United States citizen or a lawfully-admitted permanent resident." Because the column is  and provides no factual  to back up its assertion about foreign contributions, we don't consider there is enough  to address the allegation here. The issue for the -O-Meter is whether Dowd wrote the column. She didn't, which makes the  .
Statement: Says the United States loses "250 Billion Dollars a year on illegal immigration, not including the terrible drug flow. Top Border Security, including a Wall, is $25 Billion. Pays for itself in two months.
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 4, 2018
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump tweeted, "Our Country losses 250 Billion Dollars a year on illegal immigration, not including the terrible drug flow. Top Border Security, including a Wall, is $25 Billion. Pays for itself in two months." The White House did not provide data or any other information backing Trump’s assessment. Several economics and immigration experts said they were unaware of any report stating that $250 billion figure. It’s difficult to peg an exact cost of illegal immigration, but even high estimates are significantly lower. Trump’s  that a $25 billion border wall would pay for itself in two months isn’t supported by the facts, either. Trump’s  is . We rate it .
Statement: Every single day in this country, 1,000 people are deported and the vast majority of those people that are deported aren't criminals.
Speaker: jose diaz-balart
About the speaker: Jose Diaz-Balart is the anchor for Telemundo's Noticiero news program and is a show host with MSNBC.
Date: November 9, 2014
Topics: immigration;elections;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Diaz-Balart said that 1,000 people are deported each day and the vast majority are not criminals. Diaz-Balart is right that 1,000 people a day on average are formally removed from the country. In fact, in 2013, it was 1,200 per day. But he reached too far by saying the "vast majority" are not criminals. Strictly speaking, non-criminal removals only slightly outnumber the people removed under the cloud of a criminal charge. Those crimes in many cases include entering the country illegally or overstaying a visa. But they are still crimes. The statement is partially accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Under Mayor Angel Taveras "Providence's bond rating was downgraded from A to BBB, two steps above junk-bond status.
Speaker: american leadhership pac
About the speaker: The American LeadHERship PAC is a political action committee that describes itself as "an organization dedicated to increasing the ranks of progressive women in governors' seats across the country." During the 2014 election, the only candidate featured on its website was Gina Raimondo, a Democrat who was ultimately elected Rhode Island governor.
Date: August 31, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: city budget
Context: a website
Fact-check justification: American LeadHERship is accurate in noting that one of three bond-rating agencies, Fitch Ratings, downgraded Providence’s bond rating to two notches above junk-bond status in March 2011. Although not noted on the PAC’s website, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s ratings also were lowered, but at that point were less negative than Fitch. Coyne-McCoy, well-schooled in Rhode Island politics, knows perfectly well that Taveras inherited the deficit from the previous mayor, who lied about the city’s financial condition. And she does not mention that the new mayor took immediate actions to improve Providence’s finances -- actions that have been praised, including by the bond-rating agencies. The judges realize that she may not consider Taveras as good a leader as Raimondo, but the statement she posted on American LeadHERship is reminiscent of Cicilline’s comments about the city’s financial condition. Because it leaves out important details and takes things out of context, the judges rule . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: An image shows Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in front of a cross with a figurine of former President Donald Trump on it.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: July 19, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: religion;facebook fact-checks
Context: a TikTok post
Fact-check justification: "My daily bread," Greene wrote in the original tweet. "It took years for me to read this book, but that time was the greatest investment I’ve ever made. It led me to Him." Greene’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. We rate this TikTok post .
Statement: Confederate veterans were conferred with many of the same benefits of other United States military veterans by Acts of Congress back in 1929 and 1957.
Speaker: sid miller
About the speaker: Sid Miller, a former Texas House member, won election as state agriculture commissioner in November 2014.
Date: November 9, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: veterans
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "Who told them to leave?" Miller wrote. "Get a rope."  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information
Statement: Because of Obamacare "people's premiums ... are going up 35, 45, 55 percent.
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 25, 2015
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "People’s premiums … are going up 35, 45, 55 percent." Some insurance plans in the federal exchange will see price hikes at the levels that Trump is suggesting. But he’s cherry-picking the high end of premium changes to come. Estimates for the national average are far below Trump’s figures, ranging from 4.4 percent to 13 percent. Trump’s  is partially accurate but takes things out of context. We rate it .
Statement: The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they're in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when they're in saltwater.
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: January 25, 2011
Location: national
Topics: environment;water
Context: the State of the Union speech
Fact-check justification: "But broadly speaking, they're a world-class organization in terms of sustainability" In ruling on Obama's statement, we found that he's right about the regulatory division on salmon, with different agencies responsible for the fish when they're in freshwater versus when they're in saltwater. In fact, he leaves out a lot of detail, including the role of the states. The actual regulatory scene is even more complicated. But Fish and Wildlife in the Interior Department does have authority over fish when they're in freshwater, and the National Marine Fisheries Service in the Department of Commerce regulates them in saltwater. Because he left out some of the complexity, we rate his statement .
Statement: Kamala Harris said disaster aid should go to non-white citizens first.
Speaker: america first legal
About the speaker: Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, launched the advocacy group America First Legal in April 2021, saying it would use "our legal system to defend our society and our families from any unlawful actions by the left."
Date: November 1, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: race and ethnicity;natural disasters ;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: America First Legal claimed in an ad that Harris said "disaster aid should go to nonwhite citizens first." The ad takes Harris’ comments out of context. She did not say any particular race would be prioritized in disaster relief efforts. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton "has been saying lately that she thinks that I am, 'not qualified to be president.'
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 6, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;elections;negative campaigning
Context: a speech at Temple University
Fact-check justification: Sanders said Clinton "has been saying lately that she thinks that I am 'not qualified to be president.' " That's the spin some media outlets are putting on it, when Clinton dodged the question of whether or not she thinks Sanders is qualified. But she's never directly said it, as Sanders specifically alleged. Because the statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, we rate it .
Statement: Some of you are being injected with saline because it would look too suspicious if everybody died at the same time.
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: July 18, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Receiving a saline injection isn’t harmful, and millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses have been safely administered in the United States. A rigorous regulatory process and real-world  shows that they effectively protect against COVID-19, and the vaccines continue to undergo safety monitoring .   While the CDC has said that three deaths from a rare blood clotting issue could be linked to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, more than 160 million Americans are now fully vaccinated with minimal complications.   The suggestion that people are being injected with saline as part of a bigger, deadly plot against humanity is unfounded and defies .   We rate this  .
Statement: Says broken compact fluorescent light bulbs "allegedly cause migraines and epilepsy attacks.
Speaker: phyllis schlafly
About the speaker: Phyllis Schlafly has long been a conservative activist; she founded the Eagle Forum in 1972. She says in her official biography that she has attended and played an active role in every Republican National Convention since 1952.
Date: February 2, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: environment;consumer safety;public health
Context: an e-mail blast
Fact-check justification: Schlafly pointed out that his mother’s use of the word "allegedly" signaled that she was "not claiming she had scientific proof CFLs cause migraines or epilepsy. However, it is a fact that some people who suffer from migraines or epilepsy believe that CFLs cause or aggravate those painful and debilitating conditions, he said. Our take: Flickering lights of various origins have been linked to migraines and epileptic seizures. But there appears to be no scientific  that CFLs, broken or otherwise, cause either disorder. We rate Schlafly’s statement .
Statement: Says Scott Brown "voted to reward" companies "to ship jobs overseas.
Speaker: jeanne shaheen
About the speaker: Jeanne Shaheen is a Senator from New Hampshire.
Date: October 21, 2014
Location: new hampshire
Topics: jobs;government regulation;voting record;workers
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Jeanne Shaheen says Scott Brown voted to reward companies to ship jobs overseas. A bill in the Senate in 2010 called the Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act was aimed at giving companies incentives to bring overseas jobs back to the United States and reducing tax breaks that can benefit companies that move jobs outside of the country. On a procedural vote to move the bill forward, Shaheen voted in favor and Brown against. Brown did openly oppose the bill in a speech, but his actual vote was procedural -- not on the merits -- and it’s debatable whether his opposition amounted to "rewarding" companies that outsource or simply kept a status quo that treated all companies equally. On balance, we find Shaheen’s statement .
Statement: The Green New Deal "would put a $600,000 tax burden on every household.
Speaker: republican party of florida
About the speaker: The Republican Party of Florida represents Republicans in Florida.
Date: September 20, 2019
Location: florida
Topics: environment;climate change;taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The Florida GOP tweeted that the Green New Deal "would put a $600,000 tax burden on every household." The Green New Deal is a set of goals; it does not impose specific taxes. Instead, the $600,000 number comes from a brief that its author, the right-of-center American Action Forum, acknowledges is a preliminary and rough estimate. The analysis did not say that every household would pay an extra $600,000 in taxes. Instead, it estimated what costs might be under a range of scenarios over a period of 10 years.  It’s possible the resolution will eventually lead to legislation that can be formally analyzed for potential costs, but at this point, such costs can’t be determined. We rate this statement .
Statement: Currently, we're at 36 percent of our children born out of wedlock.
Speaker: sam brownback
About the speaker: Sam Brownback is a U.S. senator from Kansas, elected to that job in 1996. He previously served one term in the U.S. House and also was the state agriculture commissioner. He graduated from Kansas State University and earned a law degree from the University of Kansas. He was born in Garnett, Kan., in 1956. He and his wife, Mary, have five children. He withdrew from the presidential race on Oct. 19, 2007.
Date: September 5, 2007
Location: national
Topics: families
Context: Durham, N.H
Fact-check justification: Brownback is right when he says 36 percent of children in the United States are born out of wedlock. The latest data available is from 2005, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control's National Center for Health Statistics. "The proportion of births to unmarried women increased in 2005 to 36.8 percent, compared with 35.8 percent in 2004," the report stated. "The proportions increased for all population subgroups by race and Hispanic origin."
Statement: Nearly 200,000 Florida voters may not be citizens.
Speaker: donald trump jr.
About the speaker: Donald Trump Jr. is the son of President Donald Trump and his former wife Ivana Trump.
Date: November 12, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;elections
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: As Florida underwent a recount of three key races, Trump Jr. tweeted a headline that said "nearly 200,000 Florida voters may not be citizens." He said it was "amazing, but not shocking at all anymore." It’s actually not , and years old. The story itself provides a more complete picture — and an editor’s note with clarifications that Trump overlooked. The state’s 2012 voter purge started with a list of potentially 182,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls. State officials whittled that list to more than 2,600 names sent to county election supervisors. Ultimately 85 noncitizens were removed. We rate this  .
Statement: Video shows President Joe Biden recalling an alien encounter.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 15, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "There are trusted interlocutors," Biden said. "Think of the people — if your kid wanted to find out whether or not there were — there’s a man on the moon, or whatever — you know, something, or, you know, whether those aliens are here or not — you know, who are the people they talk to beyond the kids who love talking about it?   They go to people they respect, and they say, ‘What do you think?’" And on Oct. 21, 2021, he joked that first lady Jill Biden "went like this," and then pointed "down the hall" for him to sleep in another bedroom in the White House after failing to get free community college in a piece of legislation.   We rate claims that this is an authentic video showing Biden talking about an alien encounter .
Statement: Coca-Cola has lost $4 bil in market value as people are boycotting Coke for their 'try to be less White' statement.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 25, 2021
Topics: corporations;economy;race and ethnicity;sports;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: While the S&P 500 rose 0.4% that day, Coca-Cola's shares dropped 1.6%, from $56.17 at the beginning of the conference to $55.22 by the end of the conference, resulting in an overall loss of $4 billion.   Despite the apparent simultaneity between Coca-Cola’s tumble and Ronaldo’s press conference, Coca-Cola’s Chief Financial Officer John Murphy told Reuters in July that the beverage company has not seen any direct sales impact following Ronaldo’s snub.   Our ruling  "Coca-Cola has lost $4 bil in market value as people are boycotting Coke for their ‘try to be less White’ statement," the Facebook post reads.   While Coca-Cola stoked controversy in February for a diversity and equity employee training module which included the phrase, "try to be less white," there’s no  that the statement led to product boycotts that affected the company’s market value in mid-June.   We rate this  .
Statement: Kansas has not elected somebody other than a Republican (to the U.S. Senate) since before 'The Wizard of Oz' hit the movie theaters.
Speaker: jonathan karl
About the speaker: Jonathan Karl was named ABC News' Chief White House Correspondent in December 2012.
Date: November 2, 2014
Topics: elections;punditfact
Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Talking about the midterm campaign with the most blunders, Karl said Roberts is the "clear worst candidate of the year," pointing to the fact that "Kansas has not elected somebody other than a Republican since before The Wizard of Oz hit the movie theaters." Karl’s talking point is on the money. Kansas last elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1932. The Wizard of Oz was released seven years later. His  rates .
Statement: (New Jersey Network) is the only news station which covers New Jersey government.
Speaker: loretta weinberg
About the speaker: Loretta Weinberg is a Democratic state senator representing Bergen County.
Date: June 6, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: state budget
Context: a column on bluejersey.com
Fact-check justification: "In addition, News 12's election season includes live coverage on election night, a schedule of political debates, live coverage of the State of the State address, plus inaugurations, town hall meetings, and more." Let’s review: Weinberg said NJN is the " only news station which covers New Jersey government," but other television stations clearly cover government in the Garden State through news and political talk shows. Weinberg later praised the extent of coverage provided by NJN, but her statement was not about comparing coverage among different news stations. She said NJN was the only one doing the job, and that’s why we rate her statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: A "massive" federal computer network will make your medical records available to "millions of people" with a "complete lack of privacy and confidentiality," while doctors and hospitals who don't take part face "stiff penalties.
Speaker: senior citizens league
About the speaker: an advocacy group for senior citizens affiliated with the Retired Enlisted Association
Date: October 1, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care;technology;privacy issues
Context: a letter to members
Fact-check justification: The Senior Citizens League has a point that HIT presents unprecedented challenges in privacy and security, and that strategies to keep up with these threats continue to evolve. However, the group significantly overstates the degree to which HIT is intended to collect medical data in one place and the extent to which users will be able to poke around records that they don't have a legitimate need to access. It's  to say that there will be a "complete lack of privacy or confidentiality;" laws against unauthorized use are already in place, and federal officials have explicitly made privacy a high priority. Finally, the penalties against nonparticipation that the group cites begin in 2015 — after several years in which providers can receive financial bonuses for participating. On balance, we find the group's claims .