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Statement: We are seeing dramatic rate cuts" to Medicare that will affect seniors' ability to keep their doctor, hospital and prevention services.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: February 26, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: medicare
Context: an online campaign ad
Fact-check justification: "We are seeing dramatic rate cuts," to Medicare that will have a "devastating impact" on seniors’ ability to get their doctor, their hospital and prevention services, Scott tells seniors in an online campaign ad. Scott omits that the recently announced rate cuts were for Medicare Advantage plans, a subset of Medicare. Those plans represent about one-third of Medicare plans in Florida and nationwide. The proposed rate cut won’t be finalized until April, and if it is, health care experts say we won’t know the full impact for a few months. That means it’s too soon to predict if the rate cut will have a "devastating impact" on seniors' ability to keep their same doctor and hospital. It is possible that some seniors on Medicare Advantage will lose or have to change doctors, but the impact could vary from county to county. Seniors on traditional Medicare are not affected by the cuts. Scott’s ad is a scare tactic that omits several caveats. We rate this  .
Statement: Barack Obama will "raise Social Security taxes.
Speaker: republican party of florida
About the speaker: The Republican Party of Florida represents Republicans in Florida.
Date: October 22, 2008
Location: national
Topics: social security
Context: campaign direct mail
Fact-check justification: He proposes to start taxing income of $250,000 and higher at a rate somewhere between 2 and 4 percent, and this includes an employer contribution, so the cost to the worker would likely be between 1 and 2 percent. By the way, people who make $250,000 or more make up roughly 3 percent of everyone who files taxes. So Obama does propose raising Social Security taxes. But the raise would hit only a small portion of the population. We find the Republican Party of Florida's statement to be overly broad and rate it .
Statement: Says taxpayer subsidy for the Oregon Convention Center hotel jumped $100 million in closed-door sessions
Speaker: coalition for fair budget priorities
About the speaker: The Coalition for Fair Budget Priorities is an association of hotels, some located in downtown Portland, that opposes significant public subsidies going to a proposed hotel that would support the Oregon Convention Center. The group, on a website operated by another company, uses the acronym "OUCH" -- Our Unfortunate Convention Hotel.
Date: September 25, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: transparency
Context: a website statement
Fact-check justification: All also agree that the negotiations took place behind closed doors. Some opponents think that was improper or unfair, though others agree that real estate negotiations between public agencies and private developers are routinely held in private. But that’s a separate issue. So we also find OUCH accurate on that point. We rate the statement on OUCH’s website .
Statement: The average cost for health insurance in Florida went from about $600 a month for an individual to about $150 a month.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: March 28, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: health care
Context: a U.S. Senate primary debate on FOX News Sunday
Fact-check justification: So, in theory, the most expensive plan under the state's program isn't that much less expensive than the national average. Furthermore, his spokeswoman told us that the $600 figure is not a national or even state average. Rather, it's the rough estimate for the monthly cost of one person's health care. And that means it's not a reliable or significant number. Because Crist used two numbers to set up a  comparison that implies Cover Florida Health Care is much less expensive than other plans when it is not, we rate this .
Statement: Says he requested "10,000 National Guardsmen" for his Jan. 6 rally, but Nancy Pelosi "rejected it.
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: February 28, 2021
Topics: congress;homeland security;military;jan. 6
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Trump said he requested "10,000 National Guardsmen" for his Jan. 6 rally, but Pelosi "rejected it." A news article reported that Trump told the acting defense secretary the night before the rally that he thought 10,000 National Guard troops would be needed, but he did not make any clear request for 10,000 troops.  Pelosi’s spokesman said she was not consulted about the National Guard before Jan. 6. And the former House sergeant-at-arms, who reported to Pelosi, testified that he had no discussions about National Guard troops with any congressional leaders before Jan. 6. Without  to back it, we rate Trump’s statement .
Statement: About 40 percent of workers don't ... have a single paid sick day.
Speaker: vicki shabo
About the speaker: Vicki Shabo is the director of work and family programs at the National Partnership for Women and Families.
Date: December 12, 2013
Topics: labor;public health;punditfact
Context: an interview on MSNBC's "The Cycle"
Fact-check justification: Shabo accurately referenced 2013 federal data when she said, "About 40 percent of workers don’t even have a single paid sick day." Saltsman did offer one caveat, however, noting that some workers have a pool of days that can be used for illness or vacation. That caveat is enough to rate this  .
Statement: Wisconsin's "effective" unemployment rate is 20 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: March 29, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Our rating Trump said Wisconsin’s "effective" unemployment rate is 20 percent. Wisconsin’s latest official unemployment rate -- the one reported most often in the news -- was 4.6 percent in February 2016. It was also 4.6 percent for all of 2015. The government’s most expansive unemployment rate -- which includes the unemployed, people in the labor force who aren’t looking for work and people who are working part time but want to work full time -- for Wisconsin was 8.3 percent for 2015. We rate Trump’s statement .
Statement: Delta Force raids Obama stronghold in Thailand.
Speaker: someonesbones
About the speaker: Someonesbones posts fake news. It describes itself as “primarily dedicated to exploring the Nibiru realities and exposing scientific and govermental corruption.”
Date: December 27, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: The story had green and black images of what appeared to be military officers in night vision goggles. We searched the photos on Google images and one appeared to be similar to an image used in a 2013 story about the movie Zero Dark Thirty , which was about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. The photo of the fictitious Obama compound in Thailand is actually Villa Rak Tawan , a luxurious estate in Phuket used for vacations and weddings. Someonesbones.com said "Delta Force raids Obama stronghold in Thailand" but we found no  that such a raid occurred. We rate this headline .
Statement: Congressman (Ron) DeSantis sponsored legislation to increase sales taxes by 23 percent, hurting families, destroying jobs, devastating tourism
Speaker: adam putnam
About the speaker: Adam Putnam lost the Republican primary for Florida governor to U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis in 2018. A former Republican Congressman from Congressional District 12 in Central Florida, was elected Florida Commissioner of Agriculture on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014.
Date: July 24, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: taxes
Context: a campaign ad from his political committee Florida Grown
Fact-check justification: The ad said, "Congressman DeSantis sponsored legislation to increase sales taxes by 23%." The ad distorts what DeSantis sponsored in a few ways. It leaves out that the same plan would have eliminated almost all other federal taxes.  And by mentioning only "sales taxes" in the context of Florida’s economy, the ad creates a  impression that DeSantis wants the state’s 6% sales tax to surge by that amount. The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts, leaving voters with the  impression. We rate this  .
Statement: Deceased Ukrainian fighter pilot Col. Oleksandr Oksanchenko was the "Ghost of Kyiv.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 4, 2022
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "  Ukraine’s official Twitter account, meanwhile, promoted the Ghost of Kyiv narrative with a video that suggested the mystery pilot could have been responsible for as many as 10 downed Russian aircraft by Feb. 26. That video, too, included footage from a video game.   PolitiFact did not receive a response from Zelensky’s administration about Oksanchenko and the Ghost of Kyiv . Finding no conclusive information tying Oksanchenko to the Ghost of Kyiv, we rate this  .   PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: Says Bill Nelson "doesn't pay payroll taxes for his employees. He doesn't even provide them with health benefits. It's stealing money from Medicare and Social Security.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: July 30, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: medicare;social security
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Scott released an ad which claimed, "Nelson doesn’t pay payroll taxes for his employees. He doesn’t even provide them with health benefits. It’s stealing money from Medicare and Social Security." Nelson relied on consultants for the early parts of his campaign. Because he did not have employees, he did not have to pay payroll taxes or provide health insurance. In July, Nelson hired employees, though they will not report that change to the FEC until mid-August. The campaign still does not provide healthcare to their employees but says that salaries are adjusted so staff will have access to care. Nelson does not have to pay payroll taxes on consultants. Instead, the consultants pay the payroll taxes. This is a common set-up for contract work. No money is being lost or stolen from the national funds. We rate this statement .
Statement: The Loudoun County School Board spent about $300,000 (last year) … to bring CRT in some form or fashion to the school system.
Speaker: winsome earle-sears
About the speaker: Winsome Earle-Sears, a Republican, was elected Virginia's lieutenant governor in 2021. She is the first Black woman to be elected to statewide office in Virginia.
Sears lives in Winchester, Va. and owns a plumbing and appliance repair store. She was born in Jamaica in 1964 and reared in New York City. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Old Dominison University and a Master of Arts degree in organizational leadership from Regent University. 
Sears served in the U.S. Marines from 1983 to 1986. She represented Virginia Beach in the House of Delegates from 2002 to 2004 but did not seek reelection, opting to launch an unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. House of Repesentatives in 2004. 
Date: January 17, 2022
Location: virginia
Topics: corrections and updates;education
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Earle-Sears said, "We know last year the Loudoun County School Board spent about $300,000 — that’s real money, that’s going-to-jail money — to bring CRT in some form or fashion to the school system."  Earle-Sears has a little ground beneath her. In 2020, the school system paid a consultant $34,167 to conduct seminars for senior officials on critical race theory and equity training.  But her statement is otherwise tenuous. The seminars were a slice of $422,500 Loudoun spent to improve racial equity in its school amid reports that disproportionate numbers of Black students were being suspended or expelled. The money was spent from September 2018 to June 2020 — not last year as Earle-Sears says. The consultants helped Loudoun develop policies aimed at making schools more welcoming and fair to minorities. The work focused on treating students fairly, not what they should learn in classrooms. Earle-Sears’ statement confuses the matter and we rate it .
Statement: Tylenol is the #1 cause of acute liver failure in the US with 27% of people dying & kills at least 100,000 per year from its use.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 21, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A post claimed that "Tylenol is the #1 cause of acute liver failure in the US with 27% of people dying and kills at least 100,000 per year from its use." Acetaminophen is the active ingredient in Tylenol and hundreds of other medications.  Acetaminophen overdose is the leading cause of acute liver failure in the U.S., but the condition is rare — there are around 2,000 cases annually — and not always fatal.  About 450 deaths per year are related to acetaminophen-associated overdoses, according to the FDA. That number is nowhere near 100,000 deaths — and there is no reason to think that each of those deaths was due to Tylenol, specifically.  We rate this  .
Statement: Closing our state's wage gap would make a $9 billion difference to Missouri women.
Speaker: chris koster
About the speaker: Chris Koster is the Missouri attorney general, and is running for governor as a Democrat.
Date: April 22, 2016
Location: missouri
Topics: jobs;women;workers
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: That’s a lot of money, but it isn’t the $9 billion Koster claimed. When we’ve rated such claims before, statements that speak broadly about a wage gap, regardless of the underlying factors, get some benefit of the doubt. Koster’s  greatly oversimplifies a very complex situation, but the size of the gap is real. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/932d21db-2e26-417c-92f4-cbd97eb3315c
Statement: I have never asked for a single earmark, pork barrel project for my state of Arizona.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: September 16, 2008
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: Tampa, Fla
Fact-check justification: In 2003, Frank noted, McCain won authorization to buy property to create a buffer zone around Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, and in 1992, McCain asked the Environmental Protection Agency to provide $5-million toward a wastewater project in Nogales, Ariz. While McCain would surely say these projects don't meet the definition of pork barrel spending, watchdogs disagree. "If it doesn't meet the technical term of earmark, it would probably meet the public idea of one," Pete Sepp, a vice president at the conservative, anti-pork National Taxpayers Union, told the New York Times in reference to the Rehnquist center request. By most senators' standards, McCain's pork barrel requests are minuscule, but they do exist. And given the absolutism in McCain's , we rule his statement .
Statement: Every taxpayer, their taxes are going down, except rich people in Manhattan and San Francisco. Some of them, their taxes may go up.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: December 19, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: states;taxes
Context: Senate floor debate of federal tax legislation
Fact-check justification: Cruz said that under the tax changes, every "taxpayer, their taxes are going down, except rich people in Manhattan and San Francisco. Some of them, their taxes may go up." Cruz clearly engages in hyperbole here, though the gist of his statement holds water in that most taxpayers are projected to enjoy lower federal taxes through 2025. Also, those most likely to see their taxes go up include wealthy wage earners in high-tax states and cities. Still, projections show that across income groups, not every taxpayer will see lower taxes, contrary to what Cruz said, and many of those who do see tax savings are likely to lose them after 2025. It’s also so that residents of high-tax states and cities at risk of higher taxes aren’t limited to Manhattan and San Francisco. We find this statement partially accurate but lacking in some important context. That makes it .  – 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: Says 100,000 are on waiting list to attend Texas charter schools.
Speaker: dan patrick
About the speaker: As a Houston state senator, Dan Patrick won election as lieutenant governor of Texas in November 2014 after earlier defeating incumbent David Dewhurst for his party's nomination. Patrick also has hosted a daily talk show on AM700 in Houston.
Date: February 21, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: education
Context: Senate Education Committee hearing
Fact-check justification: Patrick said, variously, that 100,000 students, families or parents are waiting to get into Texas charter schools. The schools’ association says that’s a little lower than their estimate for students, and it’s plausible that families or parents could be trying to enroll more than one child apiece. The association’s survey only got responses from 67 charter operators, but those operators represented 87 percent of all Texas charter students in 2012. Their reported waiting lists were 75 percent the size of their total enrollment (that is, for every four kids enrolled, another three were reportedly trying to get in). If that ratio held  for the charter operators teaching the other 13 percent of Texas’ charter students (19,746 children), there would have been 14,809 students on those wait lists, yielding a total for all charter operators of 116,659. Then again, the association’s 101,851 wait-list head count could contain duplications, if students were trying to get into schools run by more than one charter operator. We rate Patrick’s statement as .
Statement: Says his much-discussed boots are "made in Wisconsin.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: January 18, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an exchange with voters at an Iowa campaign event
Fact-check justification: Rubio said his much-discussed boots are "made in Wisconsin." His Florsheim ankle boots aren’t made in the Badger State, where the company is headquartered. Florsheim told us most of their products are made in China, but Rubio’s boots came from India. We have to put our foot down on this one. We rate Rubio’s statement !
Statement: Gavin Newsom is out of sight likely because he has Guillain-Barre syndrome from his booster shot.
Speaker: steve kirsch
About the speaker: Steve Kirsch describes himself as an entrepreneur and technology expert.
Date: November 9, 2021
Location: california
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: But in the spring, the group’s entire scientific advisory board resigned, citing Kirsch’s "alarming dangerous claims and erratic behavior," according to reporting by MIT Technology Review . A Substack article said, "Gavin Newsom is out of sight likely because he has Guillain-Barre syndrome from his booster shot." The article is based on speculation and conjecture and cites numerous unnamed sources, including doctors, making it impossible to replicate or verify the . We did not find any news reports about Newsom’s condition by credible outlets, and Newsom’s spokesperson told a media outlet that the governor did not have an adverse reaction to a COVID-19 booster. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton "negotiated the first agreement — ever — where China and India officially committed to reduce their emissions.
Speaker: bill clinton
About the speaker: Bill Clinton was president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He is married to Hillary Clinton, the 2016 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
Date: July 26, 2016
Topics: global news service;climate change;foreign policy
Context: a speech at the Democratic national convention
Fact-check justification: Bill Clinton said Hillary Clinton "negotiated the first agreement — ever — where China and India officially committed to reduce their emissions." Clinton was at the table at the Copenhagen Accord, though she wasn’t the only U.S. official present. And while it was the first time China and India made pledges in an international agreement, their pledges were not legally binding. Many, if not most, environmentalists and experts say the agreement was a wash at best and a failure at worst. We rate Clinton’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/3d55f16e-04cd-47ac-8e55-fc8fe373c7b6