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Statement: Not even (House Intelligence Chairman Adam) Schiff's Republican colleagues were allowed into the SCIF" during the House impeachment investigation.
Speaker: pat cipollone
About the speaker: Pat Cipollone is White House Counsel for President Donald Trump.
Date: January 21, 2020
Location: national
Topics: impeachment
Context: the Senate impeachment trial
Fact-check justification: Cipollone said, "Not even Schiff’s Republican colleagues were allowed into the SCIF" during the House impeachment investigation. Not only were they allowed in, but there’s voluminous  in the deposition transcripts that they asked questions extensively and received answers under oath.  We rate the statement .
Statement: Law enforcement violence is the leading cause of death for young Black men and women in the US.
Speaker: kevin parker
About the speaker: New York State Senator Kevin S. Parker was elected to the Senate in 2002, and lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn. 
Date: April 14, 2021
Location: new york
Topics: criminal justice
Context: a Tweet
Fact-check justification: Parker called police violence the leading cause of death for young Black men and women. His office pointed to a study that it said backed the . It didn't. The study’s lead author said that police violence is not the leading cause of death for any age group in the United States, though Black men and women are disproportionately impacted.  CDC data back this up.  Experts would like to see better official reporting of deaths caused by law enforcement. And research has shown that Black people are more affected by police violence. But no  supports Parker’s . If he had called police use of force a leading cause of deaths among young Black men, our ruling would not have been so clear cut. But he called it the leading cause. We rate his  .
Statement: Wages are on the rise — in fact we were the top small-business wage growth state in the nation.
Speaker: mike parson
About the speaker: Mike Parson, a Republican, was elevated to governor of Missouri after the resignation of Gov. Eric Greitens in 2018.
Date: September 8, 2019
Location: missouri
Topics: economy;small business
Context: a campaign announcement
Fact-check justification: Parson said, "Wages are on the rise — in fact we were the top small business wage growth state in the nation." This statement is backed by statistics from Paychex that showed it to be  for the month of April, although Missouri fell behind in later months. Since it can’t be proven that Paychex takes a representative sample, and it’s the only indicator Parson cites, we rate this comment as .
Statement: Addressing the impact of the House GOP debt-ceiling bill on veterans' programs, "I'm dead serious that we're not cutting veterans, and I mean it.
Speaker: mike bost
About the speaker: Mike Bost is a U.S. representative from Illinois.
Date: April 26, 2023
Topics: health care;veterans
Context: a House floor speech
Fact-check justification: Bost claimed that Republicans were not cutting veterans’ benefits even as the text of their bill to raise the nation’s debt ceiling would roll back all discretionary spending. No language in the House-passed Limit, Save, Grow Act, was included to specifically protect it does include a specific budget rescission for unspent COVID-19 relief funds. That translates to $2 billion coming from the VA. Although Congress could restore that money in the future, it would result in a reduction in spending for veterans as the proposal stands.House Republicans like Bost have said repeatedly they intend to protect this key constituency. But so far, such protections are not evident on paper.  We rate Bost's statement as .
Statement: This governor has given us continual balanced budgets without raising taxes.
Speaker: david rible
About the speaker: David P. Rible (R-Monmouth) is the Assembly Conference Leader in the New Jersey Legislature.
Date: November 30, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: an interview on NJTV's 'On the Record' with Michael Aron program
Fact-check justification: Rible said during a panel discussion, "This governor has given us continual balanced budgets without raising taxes." There’s varying degrees of accuracy here. The governor has given New Jersey balanced budgets, but the law requires it. And while Christie hasn’t hiked the rates for the three biggest revenue-generating taxes in the state, he has cut some programs that experts say are essentially the same as tax increases because people have less money as a result to offset tax bills. For these reasons, we rate Rible’s  . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says his proposed payroll tax cut "will mean an extra $1,500 in your pocket compared to if we do nothing.
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: October 18, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: economy;jobs;taxes
Context: a speech.
Fact-check justification: Our ruling: Obama said this proposed payroll tax cut "will mean an extra $1,500 in your pocket." Since early September, he’s been using that number to describe average national savings for households that pay the levy. An economist at the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center computes the actual savings would be $1,446. Of course, Obama was speaking to a crowd in Virginia, where incomes are higher than the national average and the savings from a payroll tax cut would be greater. The president’s statement is certainly in the ballpark and we rate it .
Statement: Verizon promotes defunding the police and (the) idea that America is fundamentally racist.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: August 26, 2021
Topics: criminal justice;race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a TikTok video
Fact-check justification: A TikTok video claimed: "Verizon promotes defunding the police and (the) idea that America is fundamentally racist." Verizon presented a program on race to employees that included one speaker who spoke in favor of some level of defunding the police, and a speaker who discussed what he said are the ongoing effects of racism in America dating back to slavery. Verizon said the program provides for conversations about race, and the speakers’ views do not necessarily reflect its own. The company denied that it promotes defunding the police. We rate the  in the video .
Statement: These are radical Islamic terrorists, and (Hillary Clinton) won't even mention the word.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: October 9, 2016
Location: national
Topics: terrorism
Context: the second presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Trump said of Clinton, "These are radical Islamic terrorists and she won't even mention the word." After the Orlando shooting, Clinton said she had no problem saying "radical Islamism" which is similar but not the same as "radical Islamic terrorism."She has also said that leaders should be careful not to demonize the religion of Islam, and that the United States needs specific strategies to fight ISIS. We rate this  .   https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/fd252d8d-6d97-441a-a4ae-bbb020397886
Statement: The Obama administration has been "raising taxes.
Speaker: mike pence
About the speaker: Mike Pence is the former vice president of the United States. A Republican, Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence previously served for 12 years as a congressman from Indiana representing the Sixth Congressional District; he was first elected in 2000. During his time in the U.S. House of Represenatives, he served as House Republican Conference chairman and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. Pence was born in Columbus, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from Hanover College and a law degree in 1986 from Indiana University. After accepting Donald Trump's offer to be running mate, Pence ended his 2016 campaign to be re-elected as Indiana governor. 
Date: August 4, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: income;taxes
Context: a rally
Fact-check justification: Pence said that the Obama administration has been "raising taxes." Obama certainly raised some levies, including income taxes on people earning more than $400,000 a year. Although most folks don’t fall into that category, Obama’s health care reforms come with a series of new taxes that do affect lower earners. But Pence’s statement leaves a lot out of the story. Obama also has extended permanently tax cuts that were set to expire. He also enacted a series of temporary tax cuts aimed at jump-starting the economy. Figures from the CBO and the Tax Policy Center show that average tax rates have risen under Obama, but part of the reason is that Obama also allowed some special tax cuts enacted during the recession to expire. If you go back to CBO figures before the recession and compare them with figures after it ended, the average household tax rate was about the same in 2006 as it was in 2013. So on balance, we rate Pence’s  .
Statement: Says Trump ties are made "in China, not Colorado. Trump suits in Mexico, not Michigan. Trump furniture in Turkey, not Ohio. Trump picture frames in India, not Wisconsin.
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: July 28, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;small business
Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: Clinton says Trump ties are made "in China, not Colorado. Trump suits in Mexico, not Michigan. Trump furniture in Turkey, not Ohio. Trump picture frames in India, not Wisconsin." We found examples of Trump ties made in China, suits in Mexico and furniture in Turkey. We did not find a clear example of a Trump picture frame made in India. It’s worth noting we also came across suits listed as made in the United States, as well as other Trump-brand products that Clinton did not name, including the "Make America Great Again" baseball caps. We rate Clinton’s  .
Statement: Says "over 40 percent of recent county bonds are for Precinct One, northeast Travis County," because he "is quick to identify projects that help make the East Side a desirable place to live.
Speaker: ron davis
About the speaker: Ron Davis is a Travis County commissioner. He was first elected in 1998.
Date: March 1, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: county budget;transportation
Context: a campaign flier
Fact-check justification: The numerical part of Davis’ two-part  — that more than 40 percent of the 2011 bond money will be spent in Precinct 1 — holds up. But the determining impact of Davis’ quickness is unproved. It’s our sense that several factors, perhaps including the commissioner’s alacrity, affected which items landed on the ballot. We rate his  .
Statement: Canada has just criminalized all CV19 measures requiring masks, distancing, quarantining & vaccines.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 9, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: An image on Facebook says, "Canada has just criminalized all CV19 measures requiring masks, distancing, quarantining & vaccines — meaning they cannot force/fine you to wear a mask etc. Any attempt to impose such measures is now considered a CRIME." The caption of the post refers to a "law" passed by a "a council of citizens’ assemblies" that is not real, enforceable law in Canada. People can also be fined for violating the public health orders designed to slow the spread of COVID-19 in many places in Canada. We rate this  .
Statement: Chick-fil-A "donates another $1.8 million to anti-LGBTQ groups," backtracking on its promise not to.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: April 20, 2023
Topics: food;lgbtq;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The records show donations of about $1.8 million; about $1.6 million to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and $115,000 to the Salvation Army. Chick-fil-A Foundation Inc.’s tax filings for 2020 , the most recent publicly available, do not show donations to Salvation Army or the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.   Bryan Malenius, a Chick-fil-A spokesperson, told PolitiFact the company did not donate to those two organizations after 2019. We rate the Instagram post’s  . PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: Austin is the largest city in the U.S. or Texas with no geographic representation" on its city council.
Speaker: austinites for geographic representation
About the speaker: Austinites for Geographic Representation seeks to elect Austin City Council members from districts rather than citywide.
Date: July 8, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: elections
Context: a handout
Fact-check justification: Each of the dozen U.S. cities bigger than Austin has a city council with members elected from geographic districts -- and eight solely elect members from districts. This  rates .
Statement: Two-thirds of the people who use Medicaid are poor children, but two-thirds of the money is for long-term care for seniors, whether in a facility or at home.
Speaker: nancy pelosi
About the speaker: Rep. Nancy Pelosi represents a district in California. She served as speaker of the U.S. House January 2019-2021. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.
Date: May 10, 2018
Location: national
Topics: children;federal budget;medicaid
Context: remarks at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Fact-check justification: Pelosi said, "Two-thirds of the people who use Medicaid are poor children, but two-thirds of the money is for long-term care for seniors, whether in a facility or at home." Her office acknowledged that she misspoke. She overstated both the percentage of Medicaid beneficiaries who are children, and the percentage of Medicaid spending devoted to long-term care. We rate the statement .
Statement: Photo shows Jeffrey Epstein and Kamala Harris posing together.
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: January 19, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The photo was taken by Jerod Harris, according to Getty Images , and shows the couple attending a dinner at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles in 2015.   The image of Epstein that was transplanted onto Emhoff’s head appears to be a mugshot taken in 2006 after Epstein was indicted on charges of soliciting a prostitute.   Harris isn’t the first person to show up in a doctored photo with Epstein. She shares that distinction with President Joe Biden , former President Donald Trump , and CNN anchor Don Lemon .   We rate claims that this picture is authentic !
Statement: It "is estimated that as many as 300,000 auto workers may be out of a job before the end of the year.
Speaker: kamala harris
About the speaker: Kamala Harris is the vice president of the United States. Harris was elected as a senator from California in 2016. She previously was California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017. From 2004 until 2011, she was the district attorney of San Francisco. Harris received a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Howard University and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. In 2019, she ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in December. On Aug. 11, 2020, former Vice President Joe Biden named Harris as his running mate.
Date: August 12, 2019
Location: california
Topics: economy;jobs;trade
Context: a CNN interview
Fact-check justification: Trump has delayed his decision on those tariffs until later this year, meaning the one-year later impact would not be felt until well into 2020, and not by the end of this year as Harris said.    Harris’  far overestimates potential job losses for the auto industry, the timing of them and ignores the fact that no decision has been made on the tariffs.   We rated her  .      –  The statement is not accurate. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Fences have not worked. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall. That's not good among peoples, especially friends like the United States and Mexico.
Speaker: bill richardson
About the speaker: Bill Richardson is the former governor of New Mexico, having served two terms in that position from 2003-2011. Richardson is also a former congressman, U.S. secretary of energy, and ambassador to the United Nations. He unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, and was President Barack Obama’s initial nominee for secretary of commerce in 2009.
Date: October 5, 2007
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: (You can't see it from the moon, for instance.) The Great Wall has a "less than glorious past," writes Julia Lovell in her 2006 book, The Great Wall: China against the World, 1000 B.C.-A.D. 2000 . "The forces that walls were designed to keep out — highly mobile nomadic tribes — tended to gallop along frontier walls until they found weaknesses in them or, less effortfully, simply bribe wavering Chinese generals to open key wall forts," Lovell said in an e-mail interview from Beijing. In her book she quotes Genghis Khan, who said: "The strength of walls depends on the courage of those who guard them." Sometimes walls have worked and sometimes they haven't, which is why we find Richardson's statement .
Statement: NYT is correcting their lies..Trump paid $1M in 2016 & $3.8M in 2017-18..THEY LIED..AGAIN. INFO ON TWITTER THIS AM.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 29, 2020
Topics: taxes;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims the New York Times "is correcting their lies" and that Trump "paid $1M in 2016 & $3.8M in 2017-18. The New York Times has not issued any corrections or retractions about its recent reporting about Trump’s income taxes and there is no  that Trump paid millions in taxes in 2016, 2017 and 2018.  We rate this  .
Statement: I've been involved in prosecuting a terrorist member of ISIS.
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: September 19, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: criminal justice;crime;foreign policy;terrorism
Context: the Rio Grande Valley
Fact-check justification: Abbott said he helped prosecute "a terrorist member of ISIS." Given Abbott’s silence on what exactly he or state lawyers did in connection with this case, we have no  to back up his declaration aside from a press release crediting a range of agencies including the attorney general and extending to the Killeen Police Department and Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. That release doesn’t say any of the agencies prosecuted Wolfe. Abbott’s statement also relied on a broad definition of "terrorist" and "ISIS member." The federal complaint suggests that Wolfe may have sought to be those things but does not offer  that he had become either a terrorist or ISIS member. We rate the  .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Beto O'Rourke's Plan to Take 'Trans' Children from Parents.
Speaker: the charlie kirk show
About the speaker: The Charlie Kirk Show
Date: March 13, 2022
Location: texas
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Though O’Rourke said that a successful investigation could lead to transgender children and their siblings being removed from their home, "most families that (Department of Family and Protective Services) investigates do not end up having their children removed from their custody or placed in foster care, which requires a judicial order," The Texas Tribune reported . The headline on a 44-second video clip says, "Beto O'Rourke's Plan to Take 'Trans' Children from Parents." In the clip, O’Rourke was not describing his own plan. The footage was taken from an hour-long interview and omitted the fact that O’Rourke was referring to Abbott. O’Rourke was referencing Abbott’s order to state child welfare officials to investigate parents for child abuse if they provide gender-affirming care for transgender children. We rate this  .
Statement: In general, it appears" Wisconsin's right to work bill would "likely apply to" the Green Bay Packers players and their union.
Speaker: jon erpenbach
About the speaker: Jon Erpenbach is a Democratic member of the Wisconsin state Senate. He was elected to a Madison-area district in 1998.
Date: February 23, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corporations;labor;sports;unions;workers
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The nonpartisan state Legislative Council arrived at that conclusion -- though, as a practical matter, it’s not clear the bill would have any noticeable effect on the players union. For a statement that is accurate but needs clarification, our rating is . ------ More on Scott Walker For profiles and stories on Scott Walker and 2016 presidential politics, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Scott Walker page . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page .