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Statement: The ACLU has filed a suit to end prayer from the military completely.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: March 21, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: military;religion
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: "This email has been widely circulated, but there is no such ACLU lawsuit of this kind pending, nor do we intend to file one," spokeswoman Molly Kaplan told us via email. "The ACLU vigorously defends the rights of all Americans to practice their faith, and the rights of chaplains to serve our armed forces. Military chaplains are certainly allowed to practice their specific faith when conducting specifically sectarian ceremonies and to serve in non-denominational roles when ministering to service members at-large, according to their training." Let’s hope this   doesn’t continue to make the rounds on the Internet or via email. This one is a .
Statement: West Virginia Department of Education reported over 10,000 children and youth have been identified as homeless for the 2018-2019 school year.
Speaker: joe manchin
About the speaker: Joe Manchin is a U.S. senator from West Virginia. The former governor of West Virginia won a special election in November 2010 to complete the balance of the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s term.
Date: September 9, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: education;homeless
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Manchin wrote that the "West Virginia Department of Education reported over 10,000 children and youth have been identified as homeless for the 2018-2019 school year."  The state education department reported that the number of homeless K-12 students in West Virginia for 2018-2019 was 10,522. We rate Manchin’s statement .
Statement: Sen. Kamala Harris is "supporting the animals of MS-13.
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: July 2, 2018
Location: california
Topics: immigration;crime
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The White House attacked Sen. Kamala Harris for "supporting the animals of MS-13," in a tweet from its official account. Harris and other Democrats have sharply criticized the Trump administration for its immigration policies. They have expressed concern about how those entering the country, legally and illegally, are treated and called for reforming or replacing ICE. That’s not the same thing as or even close to "supporting" a violent criminal gang. We found no information showing Harris has supported or sympathized with MS-13. When asked, the White House provided no  to back up its reckless attack, which fits with a pattern of other baseless claims on the subject.   We rated the White House  .  –  The statement is not accurate and makes a  .
Statement: The median income in America has dropped by 10 percent in the last four years.
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: June 18, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;income;jobs
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Our rating Romney chided Obama for being out of touch, saying that median household incomes have fallen 10 percent. He uses data from a reputable private firm that used census data to create a new income index. At one point in Obama’s term incomes were down about 10 percent from four years earlier, but the decline is now closer to 8 percent, based on the firm’s data. Romney continues to use the outdated figure, making the decline sound somewhat larger than it is. We’ll stick with the  rating he received in January, based on the -O-Meter definition of a  that is "partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context."
Statement: From 2003 to 2006, 'Sesame Street' made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales.
Speaker: jim demint
About the speaker: Jim DeMint is a former U.S. Senator from South Carolina. He is now president of The Heritage Foundation .
Date: February 16, 2011
Location: national
Topics: children;federal budget
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: It seems unlikely that cutting federal funds would spell the end of Sesame Street, though some argue it might cause the demise of some small, rural stations that carry Sesame Street . Still, as its own tax filings show, Sesame Street makes a lot of its revenue from non-government sources, much of it through the sale of toys and other consumer products. Toy revenue is just a portion of Sesame Street 's budget and federal funding for Sesame Street is just a portion of the overall issue of federal funding for public broadcasting. But DeMint's figures on Sesame Street toy revenues are right. And so we rate DeMint's statement .
Statement: A proposed regional transportation tax will last "a minimum" of 10 years, and has been approved to last longer.
Speaker: anonymous flier
About the speaker: This anonymous flier was passed out at a Fayette County Commission workshop April 4, 2012.
Date: April 4, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: transportation
Fact-check justification: "They’ll be back with their hands out in 10 years," she said. Still, the flier needs to be revised to say that voters will decide whether to renew the tax, Dooley said. We agree. T-SPLOST may indeed survive its 10-year life span, but a zombie tax would be a creature of voters’ own making. The anonymous flier earns a .
Statement: America's life expectancy has declined for the last three years in a row, the first time in a hundred years, because of surges in suicides and drug overdoses.
Speaker: andrew yang
About the speaker: Andrew Yang filed paperwork with the New York City Campaign Finance Board Dec. 23 which allows him to explore a bid for mayor in 2021. Yang is an entrepreneur and founder of Venture for America New York. Yang received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brown University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. In 2017, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in February 2020.
Date: March 22, 2019
Location: national
Topics: public health
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Yang stated: "America’s life expectancy has declined for the last three years in a row, the first time in a hundred years, because of surges in suicides and drug overdoses." Yang’s  is based on the most recent figures from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the three years since 2014 for which data are available, life expectancy dropped in 2015, stayed the same in 2016 and dropped in 2017. That pattern has not been seen in 100 years. The CDC says suicides and drug overdoses, which showed major growth, as two of the three main factors in the decline. We rate Yang’s statement .
Statement: There were no guns whatsoever" at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.
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: July 11, 2021
Location: national
Topics: elections;crime;pundits;jan. 6
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: We also reached out to Fox News for comment but did not get a response by deadline. Trump said there were "no guns whatsoever" at the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and that "people with no guns" walked down to the Capitol. Court records and news reports show that many insurrectionists were armed, and several were charged with having firearms on Capitol grounds or stashed nearby while in Washington D.C. In addition, rioters had weapons other than firearms and used them during the attack. We rate this  .
Statement: Adam Laxalt fought an investigation into the oil industry, then they funded his campaign.
Speaker: catherine cortez masto
About the speaker: Catherine Cortez Masto was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2016 in Nevada. She previously served two terms as Nevada's Attorney General.
Date: June 17, 2022
Location: nevada
Topics: campaign finance;energy;ethics;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Cortez Masto said Laxalt "fought an investigation into the oil industry, then they funded his campaign." In 2016, Laxalt, a Republican, opposed efforts by Democratic attorneys general to investigate whether oil companies had made fraudulent disclosures about climate change. Laxalt also helped Exxon Mobil fight one of the investigations, which Republican attorneys general criticized as a threat to First Amendment rights. A super PAC said it spent $2.5 million on ads to support Laxalt’s 2018 run for Nevada governor, but did not contribute those funds directly to Laxalt’s campaign. The industry group that donated the largest amount of money to the PAC was oil and gas, though the vast majority of those funds were from individuals, not oil organizations. Cortez Masto’s  is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it . RELATED: Fact-checking ads in the 2022 campaigns RELATED: GOP Nevada Senate hopeful Adam Laxalt backed birth control restrictions as attorney general RELATED: Warnock, Cortez Masto voted for COVID-19 relief bill, but not for leisure projects it helpe
Statement: This year," the Austin City Council "granted a small homestead" property tax "exemption of $5,000... applied equally to everyone. And we also granted an exemption for the elderly and the disabled members of the community.
Speaker: sheryl cole
About the speaker: Sheryl Cole, Austin's mayor pro tempore, was an Austin City Council member through 2014 and ran for mayor that year.
Date: October 15, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: taxes
Context: a "Ballot Boxing" candidate forum
Fact-check justification: Cole, speaking of the Austin City Council, said this year, "we granted a small homestead exemption of $5,000... applied equally to everyone. And we also granted an exemption for the elderly and the disabled members of the community." Both parts of this  are stretches. That is, a $5,000 homestead exemption might be adopted by the council later this year or in 2015, but it hasn’t been granted or applied to anyone already. And while the council in 2014 increased the homestead exemption for the elderly and disabled, that benefit originated in the 1970s. We rate this statement .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says a "court has ordered North Carolina to step up significantly its funding for education.
Speaker: roy cooper
About the speaker: Roy Cooper, a Democrat, is the governor of North Carolina. Previously he was the attorney general, a state senator and a state representative.
Date: January 21, 2020
Location: north carolina
Topics: education
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Cooper tweeted that "the Court has ordered North Carolina to step up significantly its funding for education." Judge Lee didn’t give specific instructions for how much lawmakers need to spend on public education. But he did order North Carolina to spend more on its education system. Cooper’s statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it .
Statement: For the first time in over a decade, business leaders around the world have declared that China is no longer the world's No. 1 place to invest; America is.
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 28, 2014
Location: national
Topics: economy;foreign policy
Context: State of the Union address
Fact-check justification: Obama said that "for the first time in over a decade, business leaders around the world have declared that China is no longer the world’s No. 1 one place to invest; America is." He was referring to the 2013 A.T. Kearney Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index, which surveys global business leaders to determine their investment attitudes toward nations across the world. The United States did top the list this year, for the first time since 2001, knocking China out of the top slot.  The president is accurate by citing one particular study, and that study did ask business leaders what they thought about investing in the United States. A broader look at other rankings doesn’t make the United States seem like such a powerhouse, even if it does still best China in some lists. We rate Obama’s   .
Statement: If you look at some of these places that (reduced police funding), they've already seen crime go up.
Speaker: ron desantis
About the speaker: Ron DeSantis announced on May 24, 2023 that he is running for president in the Republican primary. DeSantis won the race for Florida governor in 2018 and 2022. DeSantis was first elected to Congress in 2012 and resigned in September 2018 to focus on his campaign. He represented Florida's 6th Congressional District which is south of St. Augustine and north of Orlando and includes Daytona Beach. DeSantis initially ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 but dropped out after Marco Rubio decided to seek re-election.
Date: April 19, 2021
Location: florida
Topics: city budget;criminal justice;crime;public safety
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: An element of  in DeSantis’  is that crime went up in six major cities. But he said it was because of budget cuts, when murder and gun violence were already trending up in 2020, before cities changed their budgets. None of the budget changes have been in place for a whole year, so it’s too early to tell the extent of their impact on crime, if any. A proper assessment would control for many factors that influence criminal activity, experts said. We rate DeSantis’  .
Statement: Wages adjusted for inflation haven't risen since the turn of the last century.
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: November 14, 2015
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;workers
Context: Des Moines, Iowa
Fact-check justification: Clinton said that "wages adjusted for inflation haven’t risen since the turn of the last century." They didn’t rise by much -- roughly half a percentage point per year above inflation over the past decade and a half -- but they did rise. We rate the statement .
Statement: The coronavirus has seen a "big surge in New Zealand. It's terrible. We don't want that.
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: August 17, 2020
Location: national
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Trump said: "The problem is, big surge in New Zealand. It's terrible. We don't want that." New Zealand reported nine new cases on Aug. 17, the day of Trump’s remark. The U.S., by contrast, has frequently reported more than 50,000 cases per day since July. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says 24 million people in this country "can't find a full-time job," 50 million "can't see a doctor when they're sick," 47 million people need government help to feed themselves and 15 million families owe more than the value of their home.
Speaker: alan grayson
About the speaker: Alan Grayson was initially elected to Congress in 2008, then defeated for re-election in 2010. He was elected again to Congress from a different district in 2012. He lost the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Florida in 2016.
Date: October 7, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: economy
Context: appearance on Bill Maher show on Oct. 7, 2011
Fact-check justification: Grayson's defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement earned him praise from the left-wing blosophere and pundits for its pith. No pundit or official in the movement's first month had quite articulated the protesters' qualms -- high unemployment, expensive health care, poverty and underwater mortgage payments -- as Grayson did in 20 seconds on Maher's show. We examined each of his economic claims and found them accurate, point for point. We rate his  .
Statement: Bill White has presided over the construction of what may be the world's largest abortion clinic.
Speaker: republican party of texas
About the speaker: The Republican Party of Texas says it promotes a conservative government philosophy in the Lone Star state.
Date: January 22, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: abortion
Context: an e-mail
Fact-check justification: This much is : White was mayor when Planned Parenthood started renovating a building to become its new facility. Using the GOP's logic, White also "presided" over Hurricane Katrina and the Houston Astros going to the World Series and countless other coincidental events. But as far as we could tell, White was no more responsible for the Planned Parenthood construction than he controlled the weather, baseball playoffs or other non-mayoral events. We rate the Texas GOP's   . This story was updated to correct the number of abortions Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas performs each week to 20 per day.
Statement: Candidate Bill Byrne used campaign funds for work on his "personal car.
Speaker: tim lee
About the speaker: Tim Lee is chairman of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners.
Date: April 10, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: campaign finance
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: It is also  that Byrne used campaign funds to pay for repairs on the truck. Byrne does seem to be using the vehicle for campaign purposes, which the candidate said in his disclosure report. Lee did not mention that when he was quoted in the column. That context is critical for readers to fully understand the chairman’s statement. We give this one a rating of .
Statement: Says Democrat Hank Gilbert "has a criminal conviction for theft, has multiple years of unpaid taxes, has multiple tax liens and fines, unsafe driving convictions (and) has recently been accused of taking a bribe and is on record lying to the press this year about his criminal record.
Speaker: todd staples
About the speaker: Staples was first elected agriculture commissioner of Texas in 2006 after previously serving in the Texas Senate and House. He unsuccessfully sought the 2014 Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, afterward resigning for another job.
Date: July 15, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;crime
Context: a consultant's e-mail to PolitiFact Texas
Fact-check justification: Staples’ last  — that Gilbert lied by not including his theft conviction in answering the question about arrests — is flawed. Gilbert wasn’t arrested on the charge, though he certainly faced justice and could have mentioned the conviction on the questionnaire. All in all, we rate the Staples campaign’s statement . Footnote: We’d be happy not to sort multi-part charges again. That OK with everyone?
Statement: We now have about one-third of New York's population on Medicaid.
Speaker: john faso
About the speaker: John Faso is the Republican candidate in the 19th Congressional District. He is a former Republican leader in the New York State Assembly, and also ran for governor in New York in 2006.
Date: July 15, 2017
Location: new york
Topics: health care;medicaid;taxes
Context: the Times Herald-Record
Fact-check justification: Faso said a third of New York’s population is on Medicaid. The latest federal data supports his : One of every three New York residents is enrolled in Medicaid. We rate his  .
Statement: Two liberal Democrat congressmen arrested for planning Trump's assassination.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 21, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: TheLastLineOfDefense.org fabricates posts keyed to topics designed to inflame conservatives. The articles quite often end up being passed around on multiple websites, often without an indication that they are . TheLastLineOfDefense.org doesn’t immediately indicate that any of its stories are , but its About Us link notes that "all articles should be considered satirical and any and all quotes attributed to actual people complete and total baloney." This , too, is total baloney. We rate it !
Statement: Gov. Bob McDonnell's budget plan takes "money out of our classrooms to pave roads.
Speaker: donald mceachin
About the speaker: Donald McEachin, D-9th, has been a state senator since 2008.  He represents Charles City County and parts of Henrico County and Richmond. In 2011, he was named the Democratic Caucus chairman.
McEachin, a lawyer in his own firm, McEachin Gee Law Firm, served in the House of Delegates from 1998 to 2002 and from 2006 to 2008. He ran unsuccessfully for attorney general in 2001.
He earned a bachelor's degree in political history from The American University, Washington, D.C., in 1982. He also earned a law degree in 1986 from the University of Virginia and a master of divinity from Virginia Union University in 2008.
Date: January 11, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: The biennial school loss would grow to at least $165 million when McDonnell’s plan was fully phased in. Put in context of the overall state education budget -- McDonnell wants to spend $10.3 billion in classrooms over the next two fiscal years -- the loss does not seem catastrophic. But there is no doubt McDonnell’s would narrow a guaranteed source of revenue to education without opening a new source.    We rate McEachin’s statement .