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Statement: In Springfield, Susana Mendoza voted to hit working families with a massive new soda tax.
Speaker: gery chico
About the speaker: Chico served as chief of staff to Mayor Richard. M. Daley from 1992 to 1995, then board president of Daley's Chicago Public Schools from 1995 to 2001. In 2007 he became president of the Chicago Park District. And in 2010 he served seven months as president of the City Colleges board. He ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Chicago in 2011 and is now running for that post again in 2019.
Date: January 16, 2019
Location: illinois
Topics: taxes
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Chico said that as a state lawmaker, "Susana Mendoza voted to hit working families with a massive new soda tax." The  follows a well-worn partisan script in which a candidate blows out of proportion a minor piece of legislation an opponent once supported. Mendoza indeed voted for a bill that imposed a modest increase in the cost of not just soda purchases but also candy, booze and other items. Had she voted against that bill, which passed with strong support from all corners, she also would have been turning thumbs down on major infrastructure spending, expanded gambling and more. What’s more, changing the tax rate for a handful of items is a far cry from creating a new tax specific to sweetened beverages. The change also costs consumers considerably less at the register than did the now-defunct Cook County soda tax Chico has compared it to. We rate his  .   – 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: We're flying 1987 planes with 1987 technology.
Speaker: sean duffy
About the speaker: Sean Duffy is a Republican member of the U.S. House, representing Wisconsin's 7th District in the northwestern part of the state. The former Ashland County district attorney was elected In November 2010, taking the seat previously held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Dave Obey of Wausau.
Date: July 20, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;military;technology
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: The F-35 Lightnings, a program started in 2001, are part of a controversial $400 billion order that, over 20 years, aims to replace aging aircraft across three branches of the military, according to the Department of Defense . Our rating Duffy said, "We're flying 1987 planes with 1987 technology." In the case of the airplanes Duffy based his  on, the engine and body remain largely the same as in 1987, but experts and the military say the F-16 has undergone other technological upgrades. In addition, Duffy’s statement is more general, which ignores ongoing efforts to modernize the fleet and purchase and design new craft. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Gary Peters "fought against funding for the VA, veterans housing programs, military pay raises, and health care and research for veterans and their families. He also fought against funding for processing veterans' disability claims.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: July 6, 2020
Location: michigan
Topics: veterans
Context: website profiteeringpeters.com
Fact-check justification: Peters has supported the final passage of every bill funding the VA and its housing, health care, and disability compensation programs with the exception of two votes. One vote was because Democrats opposed spending cuts; another was because Peters wanted assistance for the Flint water crisis that wasn’t included.    Peters has also voted for every Defense Authorization Act that included a military pay raise with one exception because he was opposed to the direction of the war in Afghanistan.   Overall, the claims are not accurate. We rate its claims .
Statement: Says he "never supported" federal health care individual mandate.
Speaker: tommy thompson
About the speaker: Tommy Thompson, a Republican, was a 2012 candidate for the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin. He served as governor of Wisconsin from 1987 until 2001, when he left office to become President George W. Bush's secretary of health and human services. He previously spent 20 years in the Wisconsin Assembly. Thompson briefly ran for president, withdrawing in 2007.
Date: June 13, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;health care;government regulation;public health
Context: tweets
Fact-check justification: In our item about Club for Growth’s  about Thompson, Thompson’s campaign noted that Thompson at a July 2008 forum on a "universal mandate" for health insurance said : "I don’t want a mandate." But moments later Thompson said: "I’m not opposed to it, I just don’t think it’s the most practical way." Our rating Thompson said he "never supported" an individual mandate. But while he is now an opponent of the health care reform law and its mandate requiring most Americans to buy health insurance, Thompson said in 2006 he supported a mandate and in 2007 said a mandate is "all right." We rate Thompson’s statement .
Statement: Obama-Nelson economic record: Job creation ... at slowest post-recession rate since Great Depression.
Speaker: adam hasner
About the speaker: Adam Hasner, R-Delray Beach, is a former Majority Leader for the Florida House of Representatives.
Date: May 23, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Words matter to us, and we think most readers understand "post-recession" to mean after the recession is over.  When counting after the recession, the 2001 recession had a slower job recovery. And Hasner isn't providing a complete picture when he labels this the "Obama-Nelson economic record" -- the recession started before Obama was elected president and an individual senator can't be blamed for sluggish job recovery any more than Hasner, a former state legislator, can be blamed for unemployment in Florida. Still, Hasner's off by only one recession out of 12. We rate this  .
Statement: $1 of every $3 (Ron DeSantis) spends comes from the federal government.
Speaker: fentrice driskell
About the speaker: Fentrice Driskell, a Democrat who represents Tampa, was first elected to the Florida House of Representatives on Nov. 6, 2018. She is the minority leader of the Florida House.
Date: March 7, 2023
Location: florida
Topics: state budget
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: If DeSantis' budgetary recommendations are enacted, about 34.5% — or $1 out of every $3 — of the total budget would come from the federal government. That percentage is consistent with the national average. Experts said federal funding would be provided to states regardless of who is in the White House. The federal government's share of 34.5% of DeSantis' proposed budget would be the lowest percentage since fiscal year 2018-19, but the final budget won't be ready for almost two months. We rate Driskell's statement .
Statement: Audio captures former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama debating Michelle Obama's gender.
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: March 12, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "    Trump’s gibes are not uncommon. In the past, he drew plenty of news coverage for insulting another lawmaker’s wife . And in 2021, he got big laughs from a conservative crowd as he seemingly mockingly called former first lady Michelle Obama "very beautiful." But we found none to corroborate the statements attributed to Trump in this post.   We rate it .
Statement: Says Abraham Lincoln supported an agreement that allowed slavery in New Mexico "and a law to return runaway slaves to their owners.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: April 11, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: abortion;civil rights;history;human rights
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: He goes too far. Lincoln backed an agreement that allowed New Mexico to decide whether it would allow slavery. And Lincoln held that the federal government needed to abide the return of runaway slaves, given that was the law of the land, but he didn’t support it. Ryan’s statement is partially accurate, but leaves out important details. That fits our definition for .
Statement: The (ARC Tunnel) project was originally estimated to be $8.7 billion, and New Jersey alone was on the hook for all overruns.
Speaker: jennifer beck
About the speaker: Jennifer Beck is a New Jersey State Senator. A Republican, she represents parts of Monmouth County.
Date: April 11, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: transportation
Context: an interview on NJToday
Fact-check justification: In an April 11 interview on NJToday, Beck claimed that beyond the $8.7 billion budget for the ARC project, "New Jersey alone was on the hook for all overruns." Based on a federal rule governing such projects, the senator’s  is accurate. As a DOT spokesman confirmed, New Jersey would have been responsible for cost increases beyond the $8.7 billion budget. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Bill McCollum "backed Jim Greer's effort to hide financial irregularities.
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: August 17, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: ethics;message machine 2010;transparency
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: You can argue that McCollum should have pressed for more transparency in handling the matter, and some have. And you can argue that McCollum was too slow to react to concerns over party spending, and some have. You can also argue that McCollum was too easily satisfied by the legal opinion of one person. But that is not what is being alleged in the Scott ad. It says that McCollum "backed Jim Greer's effort to hide financial irregularities." There's no  that we find or that the Scott campaign provided that McCollum had any knowledge of Greer's Victory Strategies contract, or any  that McCollum attempted to stop a criminal investigation once an RPOF audit revealed potential fraud. We rate Scott's  .
Statement: Congress rejects $336 (per) month increase in" Social Security and disability benefits "but approves $8,872 (per) month increase for themselves.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 2, 2019
Topics: congress;income;social security;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook posts says "Congress rejects $336 (per) month increase in" Social Security and disability benefits "but approves $8,872 (per) month increase for themselves." Cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security are determined by a federal agency using a consumer price index measure, not by Congress. And Congress hasn’t allowed itself a pay raise since 2009. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Scott Walker cut funding to local governments in Wisconsin, contributing to the "second-largest increase in violent crime" in the Midwest.
Speaker: mary burke
About the speaker: Burke is a former Trek Bicycle executive and former Wisconsin Commerce Department secretary who announced on Oct. 7, 2013 that she would seek the Democratic nomination for governor in Wisconsin in the fall 2014 election against incument Republican Gov. Scott Walker. She lost to Walker on Nov. 4, 2014. She is a school board member in Madison, Wisconsin.
Date: October 17, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: city budget;city government;county budget;county government;crime;state budget
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Walker did significantly reduce general-purpose shared revenue, which local governments use to help pay for a variety of functions, including law enforcement. And the increase in Wisconsin’s 2012 violent crime compared to the previous two years was higher than all but one other Midwestern state. But Burke doesn’t provide  that the shared revenue cuts significantly reduced funding for local law enforcement, nor  that funding reductions necessarily lead to an increase in violent crime. For a statement that is partially accurate but needs more information, our rating is . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page .
Statement: Says Kelly Loeffler is "for getting rid of health care in the middle of a pandemic.
Speaker: raphael warnock
About the speaker: The Rev. Raphael Warnock is a U.S. Senator from Georgia elected in a special runoff election in January 2021 and running for re-election in 2022. Warnock, a Democrat, served as the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, located in Atlanta. The church's former pastors include the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Date: November 5, 2020
Location: georgia
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Warnock said Loeffler is "for getting rid of health care in the middle of a pandemic." That’s an overly broad statement that could be interpreted any number of ways.  The facts are that Loeffler voted to let the Trump administration continue supporting a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the Affordable Care Act. Millions of people could lose health care if the Supreme Court throws out the law. Loeffler supports offering health care alternatives, but critics say they are not as good as Obamacare’s provisions. Warnock’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. Our rating is . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: First off, it's in statute already in HIPAA that preexisting conditions are covered.
Speaker: alex azar
About the speaker: Alex M. Azar II was sworn in as the 24th Secretary of Health and Human Services on January 25, 2018. He has spent his career working in both the public and private sectors, as an attorney and in senior leadership roles focused on advancing healthcare reform, research, and innovation.
Secretary Azar has laid out three guiding strategies for HHS’s programs: facilitating patient-centered healthcare markets, protecting life and lives, and promoting independence.
Date: July 9, 2020
Topics: health care;health check
Context: comments made during a virtual summit sponsored by The Hill newspaper
Fact-check justification: Azar’s statement suggested that if the Supreme Court rules against the ACA and that sweeping law is nullified, Americans with preexisting conditions would continue to have the protections originally offered under HIPAA. Though it contains an element of , it leaves out critical pieces of information. For instance, the HIPAA protections are not equivalent to those provided by the ACA. First, they are geared toward people who have work-based insurance coverage — as long as that coverage is continuous for at least 12 months with lapses no longer than 63 days. One expert we consulted pointed out that this window could be especially problematic now, during a time of "enormous economic dislocation." Additionally, the ACA rewrote the HIPAA provisions regarding preexisting conditions — bringing into question what might become of them, too. We rate Azar’s  .
Statement: Food stamp enrollment drops by four million in one month.
Speaker: breitbart
About the speaker: Breitbart is a conservative news website.
Date: February 7, 2018
Topics: fake news;food;poverty;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: Breitbart said that "Food stamp enrollment drops by four million in one month." Data from the USDA showed that the number of SNAP participants dropped from about 45.7 million in October to 41.7 million in November, a decrease of about four million. But as Breitbart explained, there was a temporary spike in enrollment due to Disaster-SNAP, including in Florida, as a result of a hurricane. In general, comparing two months doesn’t tell us much about longer-term trends. But Breitbart noted that food stamps have declined since 2013, which is accurate. We rate this  . '
Statement: In Wisconsin, "300,000 voters were turned away by the state's strict voter ID law" in the 2016 presidential election.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: December 6, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: civil rights;elections;legal issues;states
Context: tweets
Fact-check justification: After that fact check, the originator of the tweet wrote a blog post acknowledging there isn’t  to back up the . Our rating Tens of thousands of times, Twitter users repeated this statement: In Wisconsin, "300,000 voters were turned away by the state’s strict voter ID law" in the 2016 presidential election. A federal judge in 2014 determined in a civil rights lawsuit that some 300,000 registered voters in Wisconsin lack the photo identification necessary to comply with Wisconsin’s voter ID law. But there is no  that anywhere near that number of people were turned away from the polls in the 2016 presidential election for lack of a proper photo ID. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says he's signed a pledge not to raise taxes four times.
Speaker: roger williams
About the speaker: Roger Williams won election to represent the newly created Congressional District 25 in 2012. He is a former Texas secretary of state, the state's chief elections officer. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001 as chairman of the Republican National Finance Committee’s Eagles fundraising program and also has served as state finance chair for John Cornyn's 2002 Senate campaign, according to his campaign website.
Date: June 8, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: taxes
Context: U.S. Senate forum
Fact-check justification: Spokesman Adam Nicholson said by email that Williams also signed the pledge earlier because the group asks candidates to sign for each election cycle. Last year, Williams was among candidates geared up to run for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s seat when she said she was considering stepping down to run for governor. Later, Williams’ campaign forwarded a copy of the no-climate tax pledge -- avowing opposition to any climate-change legislation that includes a net increase in government revenue -- signed by Williams on Feb. 14. So, Williams has signed at least three anti-tax pledges--two of them twice. We rate his statement .
Statement: Our national debt is as low as it has been since World War II.
Speaker: goldie taylor
About the speaker: Goldie Taylor is an opinion writer and MSNBC contributor based in Atlanta, Ga. She has worked as a political consultant and journalist, and she is editor-at-large for theGrio.com, a news and opinion site geared toward African Americans. She writes about political and social issues on her online blog, The Goldie Taylor Project.
Date: November 12, 2013
Topics: debt;federal budget;punditfact
Context: an interview with Al Sharpton on MSNBC's "PoliticsNation"
Fact-check justification: Taylor said, "Our national debt is as low as it has been since World War II," which is plainly . The debt is as high as it’s ever been, in terms of real dollars, and it ticks up by the second.  Taylor acknowledged her flub, tweeting us  that she will work on "slowing things down a bit to make sure I get it right." Her statement on PoliticsNation  rates .
Statement: Jobs that involve the minimum wage are overwhelmingly jobs for young people starting out in the workforce.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: January 6, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs;labor
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating On cable TV’s MSNBC, Walker said "Jobs that involve the minimum wage are overwhelmingly jobs for young people starting out in the workforce." The best estimates are that 24 percent to 55 percent of such jobs are held by teenagers and young adults. That’s a lot, and from a relatively small component of the overall hourly-wage workforce, but his use of "overwhelming" strong suggests that a very large majority of those jobs are held by young people. They are not. We rate his  .
Statement: A man was arrested "for wearing a T-shirt that says 'We The People' and has a picture of the 'Statue of Liberty.'
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 16, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The man wearing the "We The People" T-shirt refused to remove his sticker, and "after a few moments of asking the man to leave," a CBS News affiliate reported , "troopers handcuffed the man and took him out of the room" for not complying with the request. Two other people were later kicked out for yelling at McCay.   The man who was escorted out was cited with disrupting a public meeting and released from custody. Claims that the man was arrested due to the shirt he was wearing are  and don’t tell the whole story. We rate them .
Statement: Barack Obama and the Democrats have "proposed a tax for not having health insurance.
Speaker: republican national committee
About the speaker: The Republican National Committee is the national arm of the Republican Party.
Date: September 28, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: a Web ad
Fact-check justification: The details for these mandates are very much a work in progress, and Congress will ultimately have to vote on one set of standards for the mandate. But all of the Democratic plans include the mandate, which is a tax penalty on those who don't have insurance. The RNC called it "a tax for not having health insurance," and there's no doubt that it is a form of tax. There are provisions for those who face hardship, but absent special circumstances, everyone will have to have coverage. We rate the RNC's statement .
Statement: Clinton Foundation investigator Kenneth McCormick found dead.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: May 14, 2020
Topics: pop culture;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .)   The headline is being shared on social media in earnest, fueling conspiracies about the Clinton "body count." (More on that here , here , here , here , here , here , here and here .) But the story was poached from a self-described satire website .   We rate this blog post .