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Statement: Obama's liberal fiscal agenda: Over $874-billion in new spending.
Speaker: republican national committee
About the speaker: The Republican National Committee is the national arm of the Republican Party.
Date: February 29, 2008
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: a graphic on the RNC website
Fact-check justification: But it's highly unlikely that a President Obama would need to press for a stimulus package as big as the one Congress just enacted unless the economy truly tanks. Congress also dealt with an Obama proposal to provide $50-million to help create a nuclear fuel bank administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency when it rolled the amount into the fiscal 2008 omnibus spending bill. The nonproliferation effort is intended to discourage countries from developing their own enrichment facilities. So putting it all together: If we subtract the $75-billion stimulus proposal and $50-million nuclear fuel initiative from the RNC's total of $874.4-billion and do not count tax cuts as new spending, the total spending associated with Obama's proposals would be about $459-billion. Because Republicans have correctly identified roughly half of the Obama spending proposals as new spending, we rate the Obama Spend-O-Meter .
Statement: In American history since 9/11, we've had 85 major attacks in our country, 73 percent of them have been by white nationalist hate groups.
Speaker: cory booker
About the speaker: Cory Booker is a senator from New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2013, making him the first African-American senator from New Jersey and the first African-American elected to the Senate since Barack Obama in 2004. Booker served as mayor of Newark from 2006 until 2013. He has a bachelor's degree in political science and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University, an honors degree in United States history from The Queens College as a Rhodes Scholar and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and suspended his campaign in January 2020.
Date: January 16, 2018
Location: national
Topics: crime;race and ethnicity;terrorism
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Booker said, "In American history since 9/11, we've had 85 major attacks in our country, 73 percent of them have been by white nationalist hate groups." Booker cited a GAO report that analyzed violent incidents. While Booker said that 73 percent were by "white nationalist hate groups," the report said that 73 percent were by a broader category of "far right wing violent extremist groups." The same report shows about 45 percent of incidents were committed by white supremacists. The number could rise if we counted additional perpetrators who sympathized with white supremacist ideals but were not labeled as white supremacists by the GAO. We rate this  .
Statement: All pipelines that are coming into this country from now on has to be American steel.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: April 18, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: energy;infrastructure;government regulation;trade
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating While mentioning the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, Trump said: "All pipelines that are coming into this country from now on has to be American steel." The White House made it clear weeks earlier that a memorandum signed by Trump related to the use of American steel does not apply to the Keystone -- only to new pipeline projects. And though the memorandum could put pressure on pipeline companies to use American steel, it does not contain any requirements that only American steel be used. We rate Trump’s statement . div class='artembed'>
Statement: Says President Barack Obama "added" $6.5 trillion to the national debt in his first term, more than the $6.3 trillion added by the previous 43 presidents combined.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: April 30, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: deficit;federal budget
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: A chain e-mail circulating in New Jersey claims that Obama has "added" $6.5 trillion to the national debt, while his 43 predecessors added $6.3 trillion combined. But the chain e-mail is  to suggest the additional debt during Obama’s tenure already has exceeded the level of his predecessors. In terms of both debt held by the public and total debt, the Obama administration has added less debt than the amounts in place when he took office. Still, the national debt is projected to keep increasing. The amount of added debt held by the public may exceed Obama’s predecessors by October 2013, according to White House projections. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says Donald Trump called pregnant employees "an inconvenience.
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: June 21, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: economy
Context: Columbus, Ohio
Fact-check justification: Clinton said that Trump called pregnancy "an inconvenience" for business owners. Trump indeed used that word in a 2004 interview with NBC’s Dateline. "The fact is it is an inconvenience for a person that is running a business," Trump said. Clinton’s  is accurate. We rate it .
Statement: A bipartisan background check amendment "outlawed any (gun) registry.  Plain and simple, right there in the text.
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: April 17, 2013
Location: national
Topics: guns
Context: a speech from the White House Rose Garden
Fact-check justification: Obama said opponents of compromise gun legislation "claimed that it would create some sort of ‘big brother’ gun registry, even though the bill did the opposite. This legislation, in fact, outlawed any registry. Plain and simple, right there in the text." The Manchin-Toomey amendment referenced a registry ban already in federal law, then expanded it, prohibiting seizure of records, forbidding the attorney general from consolidating or centralizing records, and providing for fines and imprisonment for anyone who did consolidate or centralize records. We rate Obama’s  .
Statement: The Islamic State, or ISIS, was "cast off by al-Qaida because" it was "considered too extreme.
Speaker: david gregory
About the speaker: David Gregory is a veteran broadcast journalist who is the host of NBC's long-running Sunday morning public-affairs show Meet the Press.
Date: August 10, 2014
Topics: iraq;terrorism;punditfact
Context: comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: While it is  that al-Qaida considered some of the Islamic State’s actions unnecessarily brutal, there were a couple of other reasons for the fallout. The Islamic State’s ideological differences with the al-Qaida brand and its constant failure to obey orders from headquarters had been sawing away its ties to al-Qaida for quite some time. In-fighting with Nusra in Syria and continued killing of fellow Muslims were the final straws. In short, shorthanding the Islamic State as too extreme leaves out the nuances behind the split.    We rate Gregory’s  .
Statement: BUSTED: NASA Accidentally destroys every climate change advocate by exposing massive truth behind Antarctica.
Speaker: americannews.com
About the speaker: AmericanNews.com is a website of undetermined origin. 
Date: November 8, 2017
Topics: climate change;fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: It does not state that it explains all of West Antarctic mass loss. Saying that a natural heat source disproves any effect of human-caused climate change is just as  as saying that natural moonlight disproves illumination from a streetlamp." The American News headline says "BUSTED: NASA Accidentally destroys every climate change advocate by exposing massive  behind Antarctica." The story refers to a real study by NASA about Antarctica, but that study doesn’t discredit climate change scientists. We rate this  .
Statement: Says paid family leave is "a program that is standard in all but five nations around the world.
Speaker: family forward oregon
About the speaker: Family Forward Oregon is an advocacy group that promotes paid family leave, paid sick leave, and greater workplace flexibility for parents.
Date: May 8, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: children;families;labor;women;workers
Context: a flier
Fact-check justification: We find the statement is accurate, but needs additional information. We’d caution readers to read the fine print. We rule the statement . (Want to comment on this fact check? Go to the story at OregonLive.com at http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/05/is_paid_family_leave_the_norm.html#incart_river)
Statement: Says critics called the original GI Bill "welfare.
Speaker: lawrence o'donnell
About the speaker: Lawrence O'Donnell is the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word. He was formerly the chief of staff for both the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and the Committee on Environment & Public Works in the 1990's. He is also an actor, and has been executive producer of the television shows The West Wing and Mister Sterling. O'Donnell blogs at the Huffington Post as well. In the past, O'Donnell has described himself as a socialist.
Date: January 31, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: history;pundits;veterans
Context: TV advertisement for MSNBC's "The Last Word."
Fact-check justification: We found no  of critics referring to the GI Bill as welfare. Yet some fretted that the law’s unemployment compensation element would encourage laziness. We see a touch of  to O’Donnell’s , which we rate .
Statement: Gov. Deal has the worst record on education in the history of this state.
Speaker: matt mcgrath
About the speaker: Manager, Jason Carter campaign 
Date: June 18, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: press release and fundraising email
Fact-check justification: Annual austerity cuts topped $1 billion in his first three budgets, but also were that high in the last two budgets of his predecessor, Sonny Perdue. The Carter camp can’t prove that among Georgia’s 82 governors Deal’s record is the worst on education in general or on education funding in specific. The Carter campaign’s charge was incendiary -- that the sitting governor has the worst education record in Georgia’s history. And we smell smoke. We award it our lowest rating, .
Statement: Our conservative Georgia values are under attack" ... (People) are "calling for the removal of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson statues.
Speaker: brian kemp
About the speaker: Brian Kemp, a Republican, was elected governor of Georgia in 2018. Previously, he served as secretary of state.
Date: August 23, 2017
Location: georgia
Topics: history
Context: a campaign email
Fact-check justification: Kemp said there are calls for the removal of statues of Washington and Jefferson. We found two instances where two people unambiguously called for those statues to come down, plus another instance where an interviewer’s question elicited a mixed reply that included the words "certainly it ought to be removed." Beyond those examples, there is scant  of a broader movement to take down statues of Washington and Jefferson, especially not along the lines of the push against Confederate monuments. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate this  .
Statement: Georgia's civil forfeiture laws are among the worst in the country and the very worst in the South.
Speaker: americans for prosperity georgia chapter
About the speaker: Americans for Prosperity's Georgia chapter is a conservative group advocates for limited government, free markets and fiscal and regulatory restraint.
Date: February 20, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: criminal justice;legal issues
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: It does rank Georgia at the bottom nationally, with a few other states. Another report highlights what critics say are some of Georgia’s flaws. Unfortunately, there’s little independent research on how states fare on the topic. The  is also based on an interpretation of those laws. With these caveats, we rate this  .
Statement: Ganley said that if elected, he wants to 'cut the dickens' out of Social Security, Medicare and Veterans' benefits.
Speaker: betty sutton
About the speaker: Rep. Betty Sutton is a Democrat from Ohio's 13th Congressional District.
Date: September 1, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: federal budget;medicare;military;social security
Context: a campaign fundraising e-mail
Fact-check justification: But she’s also a veteran member of Congress who knows that’s not done easily. And the  that Ganley wants to "cut the dickens" out of Medicare, Social Security and Veterans programs is a leap. Ganley never told Human Events he wants to cut "the dickens" out of Social Security, Medicare and Veterans’ benefits. That’s why we rate this as a  . Comment on this item .
Statement: The CEO of Moderna deleted his Twitter and dumped $400 million of Moderna stock. Big Pharma seems to know some bad news is coming.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: February 15, 2022
Topics: public health;wealth
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claimed, "The CEO of Moderna deleted his Twitter and dumped $400 million of Moderna stock" and suggested that the moves were due to impending bad news about the company. Bancel deleted his rarely used Twitter account, but there is no  to suggest that action is linked to his stock trades or bad news about the company. He did not "dump" $400 million of stock. His stock sales happened over more than two years, as part of a series of regularly scheduled trades. The most recent sales amounted to $6.1 million. He still owns 21.8 million shares of Moderna stock. We rate this  .
Statement: Before COVID-19, "more Iowans (were) working than at any other time in our state history.
Speaker: kim reynolds
About the speaker: Kim Reynolds, a Republican, has served as governor of Iowa since 2017.
Date: January 7, 2021
Location: iowa
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Before COVID-19, the numbers show Iowa’s employed workforce was the largest in the state’s history. But the numbers have declined since the pandemic. We rate the governor’s statement as .
Statement: The Biden administration is "not even testing these people" being released by Border Patrol into the U.S.
Speaker: ken paxton
About the speaker: As a Republican state senator, Ken Paxton won election as Texas attorney general in 2014. He previously served as a Texas House member from McKinney.
Date: August 7, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;coronavirus
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: "  Our ruling  During a Newsmax interview, Paxton claimed that federal officials are "not even testing" migrants who are released by Border Patrol into U.S. communities.    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has said that "100% of noncitizens" are tested for COVID-19 "at some point during their immigration journey," and that this testing is performed by a mix of federal agencies, local governments and non-governmental organizations.   While there are numerous clear examples of testing happening before migrants are released into the U.S., we know of one recent example in which strained testing capabilities led to untested migrants being released.  However, the full scope of untested migrants is unknown.   We rate this  .
Statement: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that his office "has decided to drop all charges against Donald Trump.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: March 24, 2023
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance;new york
Context: a TikTok video
Fact-check justification: Before surfacing on TikTok, the video was shared March 23 on Twitter and Telegram by conservative activist Jack Posobiec . The caption called it a "precreated speech from next week." Twitter’s Community Notes marked it as satire. The satire label did not appear on the video when it was reshared on TikTok and other platforms.   We rate the  that Bragg announced that the district attorney’s office is dropping charges against Donald Trump !
Statement: Our unemployment rate is 20 percent higher than the national average.
Speaker: scott wagner
About the speaker: PA State senator and gubernatorial candidate
Date: October 11, 2018
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: economy
Context: Campaign email
Fact-check justification: Pennsylvania did have an unemployment rate that was 20 percent — not 20 percentage points — higher than the national rate in April. But Wagner is  to  it  still does. The most recent data shows Pennsylvania’s rate in August was 5 percent above the national rate. For these reasons, we rate this  .
Statement: The HOPE scholarship "has helped turn our University System into one of the best in the Southeast, with two institutions ranked in the top 20 of public universities in the country.
Speaker: nathan deal
About the speaker: Nathan Deal is running for Georgia governor in 2010.
Date: March 21, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fact-check justification: To sum up: Rankings aren’t complete measures of a school’s quality. But as Deal said, HOPE did help Georgia’s top schools improve their rankings because it encouraged higher-caliber students to stay in state. The downside is fewer faculty are teaching more students, and HOPE students are taking easier or fewer courses. Deal is correct, but his statement could use more context. We rate his  .
Statement: Texas' public high school graduation rate is at 90% overall.
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: May 15, 2022
Location: texas
Topics: education
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Gov. Greg Abbott's campaign tweeted, "Texas' public high school graduation rate is at 90% overall," accompanying a video touting K-12 and higher education wins. That matches data from the Texas Education Agency, so we rate this as .
Statement: Under Obamacare, "The IRS will have access to the American people's protected health care information.
Speaker: eric cantor
About the speaker: Eric Cantor is a former congressman who represented Virginia's 7th District from 2001 to 2014. He rose to House minority whip in 2009 and House majority leader in 2011. Cantor was upset by Dave Brat in the 2014 GOP primary for congress. He is now vice chairman and managing director of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank.
 
 
 
Date: August 2, 2013
Location: virginia
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: a floor speech
Fact-check justification: Cantor said that under Obamacare, "the IRS will have access to the American people’s protected health care information." But he offers no hard proof, just speculation on a blog. The IRS will play a major role in Obamacare by collecting a variety of taxes that will help support the program. But contrary to Cantor’s , IRS officials have repeatedly testified before Congress that they will not have access to the intimate details of anyone’s health records. Cantor’s unfounded statement does nothing more than amp up public fear for his ongoing fight to repeal Obamacare. We rate it .
Statement: Tim Michels pushed for years to raise (Wisconsin's) gas tax.
Speaker: rebecca kleefisch
About the speaker: Rebecca Kleefisch was the lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 2011-19 under Gov. Scott Walker. She previously worked as a TV anchor and reporter, most recently with WISN-TV in Milwaukee. Kleefisch was defeated August 9, 2022 in her Republican primary bid for Republican nomination for governor.
 
Date: July 6, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;gas prices;taxes
Context: TV ad
Fact-check justification: Michels does have ties to groups that have had that aim, and this isn’t the only time he’s tried to distance himself from what they’ve been involved in.   Still, there’s no  that he was personally the one pushing. And he has explicitly stated the opposite on the campaign trail: That he will not increase the gas tax. A rating of  means the statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.   That fits here.
Statement: We don't show people playing these games. We don't show them winning playing the video lottery games.
Speaker: jack roberts
About the speaker: Jack Roberts, former Oregon labor commissioner, is director of the Oregon Lottery. He assumed the job Dec. 1, 2013 after being appointed by Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber.
Date: December 11, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: gambling
Context: an interview on Oregon Public Broadcasting
Fact-check justification: He didn’t mention a distinction. Neither would that distinction be clear to viewers. And as Marotta noted, the ad -- showing young, attractive people having a great time -- would be unlikely to dissuade people from gambling. Finally, despite Roberts’ statement on OPB, even the kayaking ad clearly shows people not only playing but enthusiastically smiling and reacting to an apparent win. We find Roberts’ statement .
Statement: Joe Biden completely botches the Pledge of Allegiance.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: September 21, 2020
Topics: patriotism;facebook fact-checks
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: One nation, indivisible, under God. For real. I’m running as a proud Democrat, but I’m not going to govern as a Democratic president. I’m going to govern as president." We rate this tweet .
Statement: The current (agriculture) commissioner allowed tainted beef to be sent to school cafeterias.
Speaker: kinky friedman
About the speaker: Kinky Friedman, a humorist, author and singer, sought the 2010 and 2014 Democratic nod for Texas agriculture commissioner. He ran as an independent for governor in 2006.
Date: February 12, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: agriculture;children;education
Context: a response to League of Women Voters of Texas
Fact-check justification: In 2008, Black said, Staples acted because the federal government told states that the beef was unfit for human consumption. The state agency helped ensure the disposal of the beef and reimbursements to districts. It's  that the Texas agriculture commissioner is responsible for overseeing the distribution of federal commodities for school meal programs. But we found no  that Staples had the authority to allow districts to get the bad beef. We rate Friedman's statement as .