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Statement: Texas has launched 'Operation Lone Star' to finish the border wall themselves.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 21, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: border security;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Political scientist Mark Jones said such a scheme "would be challenged in court almost immediately," including by property owners on the Texas border whose land would be seized. Now, a Texas state representative has filed a bill to direct DPS to finish the border wall using state funds and name the finished product after Trump. It was referred to the House Committee on State Affairs on March 18. But that’s not connected to Operation Lone Star. We rate this post .
Statement: Says the Biden administration's Unaccompanied Alien Children process has "no vetting, no transparency.
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: February 7, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: immigration
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: It also conducts a criminal check on all potential sponsors to ensure they’re not a threat to the minor’s safety.   HHS doesn’t release identifying data — such as the names of children in its custody — citing security and privacy, but releases broad data, such as the number of children in its facilities. Advocates have asked for more transparency to ensure the well-being of minors. We rate this  . PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: Obesity is, like, the No. 1 factor in whether you really get hit hard by COVID-19.
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 14, 2020
Location: florida
Topics: coronavirus
Context: an April 14, 2020 press briefing
Fact-check justification: DeSantis said "obesity is, like, the No. 1 factor in whether you really get hit hard by COVID-19." DeSantis didn’t explain what he meant by "hit hard," so we looked at research about COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized. We did not find any study that showed that obesity is the No. 1 risk factor. Most research and  so far shows age as the top factor. But early research suggests that obesity is also a key risk factor.  We rate this statement .
Statement: The health care law could cost up to $2 trillion, "double what we were promised.
Speaker: american commitment
About the speaker: American Commitment is a conservative 501(c)4 group that supports “free markets, economic growth, Constitutionally-limited government, property rights, and individual freedom”
Date: July 10, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: corrections and updates;federal budget;health care;message machine 2012
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The TV ad says that the health care law "could cost up to $2 trillion, double what we were promised." Actually, only part of the health care law -- the gross costs -- could cost up to $1.76 trillion. That’s only a slight increase from what was originally promised -- not close to double. The number also doesn’t account for the portions of the law that pay for that spending, both new taxes and cost reductions. The ad’s source -- the Congressional Budget Office -- specifically rebutted the charge that the costs had doubled, and they issued that rebuttal months ago. The CBO said that its latest estimates "are quite similar to the estimates we released when the legislation was being considered in March 2010." We rate this statement . Update: This report has been corrected to clarify the projections of gross costs as distinct from the insurance coverage provisions. The rating remains the same.
Statement: Says Joe Biden "was in charge of the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic which killed thousands of people. The response was one of the worst on record. Our response is one of the best, with fast action of border closings & a 78% Approval Rating, the highest on record. His was lowest!
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 12, 2020
Topics: health care;public health;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: It ranked higher than averages of two 2009 polls on confidence in the Obama administration’s handling of H1N1. Public confidence in H1N1 was the second highest, not "one of the worst" or the "lowest." Polling done after the Gallup poll showed a decline in approval of Trump’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. Trump’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Since 1965, California has built "six (college) campuses but 23 prisons.
Speaker: delaine eastin
About the speaker: Delaine Eastin is a Democratic candidate for California governor. She served in the State Assembly from 1986 to 1994 and then as State Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1995 to 2003.
Date: October 16, 2017
Location: california
Topics: criminal justice;education;crime;state budget;the 2018 california governor's race
Context: an interview on Capital Public Radio
Fact-check justification: In a recent Capital Public Radio interview, candidate for California governor Delaine Eastin claimed the state has built only six college campuses, including two community colleges, "but 23 prisons" since 1965. Eastin was right in her count of state prisons. But she was way off the mark on colleges: California has opened 41 community colleges, three California State University campuses and one University of California campus for a total of 45 campuses since 1965. Eastin made a similar  at the California Democratic Convention in May, though she used a more recent timeline. She said California had built "just six colleges but 22 prisons" since 1985. That statement is also . Eastin’s campaign told us the candidate made a  and will correct her figures in future statements. We rate Eastin’s  from her radio interview .    –  The statement is not accurate. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. PolitiFact California intern Kathryn Palmer contributed research and writing for this article.  Governor’s race Delaine Eastin  is among several Democratic candidates competing to succeed Jerry Brown in the 2018 California governor's race. Others include former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ; California Treasurer  John Chiang ; and  Gavin Newsom , the state’s current lieutenant governor.  Republican candidates include state Assemblyman Travis Allen  and San Diego businessman John Cox .  PolitiFact California is fact-checking claims in this race. See our "Tracking The " governor’s race fact-checks here . Tracking the : Hear a  you want fact-checked? Email us at  [email protected] , tweet us  @CAPolitiFact  or contact us on  Facebook .
Statement: Says he did not vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the House.
Speaker: joe donnelly
About the speaker: Donnelly is a Democratic Congressman representing the Second District of Indiana. He is running for U.S. Senate in 2012.
Date: May 7, 2012
Location: national
Topics: voting record
Context: an interview with Indiana Public Media
Fact-check justification: It’s  that in the most recent House election, he voted for someone else. But in the two previous votes -- the ones in which Democrats held a majority and had the power to choose the speaker -- Donnelly supported for Pelosi. His statement ignored those two votes. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Steve Bullock "failed to act" when his "most senior political aide was caught sexually harassing women. Bullock knew about the harassment but said nothing, remaining silent when the aide took another job where he harassed women again.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: October 1, 2020
Topics: congress;ad watch
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: A campaign ad says Bullock "failed to act" when his "most senior political aide was caught sexually harassing women. Bullock knew about the harassment but said nothing, remaining silent when the aide took another job where he harassed women again."  It’s not accurate that Bullock didn’t act. O’Brien was working for the Democratic Governor’s Association when allegations of sexual harassment surfaced, ultimately leading to O’Brien’s termination. Bullock, who was chair of the association at the time, says that when he became aware of the allegations, he decided it was appropriate to terminate O’Brien. However, Bullock has conceded that he didn’t tell Bill de Blasio about the reasons for O’Brien’s termination when he became aware that the NYC mayor’s office had hired him. O’Brien was subsequently fired again for harassing two additional women.  The  is partially accurate but leaves out some important details. We rate it .
Statement: Says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson is "a big corporate lobbyist" and has been "lobbying during the middle of the campaign.
Speaker: eric hovde
About the speaker: Eric Hovde, a hedge fund manager and businessman from Madison, entered politics by running for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2012. He finished second in the GOP primary.
Date: August 12, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Context: a radio appearance
Fact-check justification: Our conclusion Hovde claims Thompson was a corporate lobbyist and has even lobbied during the current campaign. By the official definition, Hovde is off. Thompson is not a registered lobbyist and the the only significant  of direct contact with an elected official is the North Carolina example. On the other hand, it’s clear that Thompson has sold his influence and connections to firms to whom it would benefit on Capitol Hill, but did so in a way -- as a consultant -- to avoid having to register. As with the Gingrich , we rate this one .
Statement: The Department of Justice, under the Obama administration, disagrees with the decision" Judge Sotomayor made in the Ricci vs. DeStefano case.
Speaker: mitch mcconnell
About the speaker: Mitch McConnell is a U.S. Senator from Kentucky and the Republican minority leader in the U.S. Senate.
Date: May 31, 2009
Location: national
Topics: sotomayor nomination;supreme court
Context: a CNN interview
Fact-check justification: In oral arguments before the Supreme Court on April 22, 2009, Edwin S. Kneedler, deputy solicitor general for the Justice Department, said that, in particular, the district court ought to look further into whether the city's decision to throw out the test was motivated by such factors as wanting to promote minority role models. As for McConnell's statement that the Justice Department "disagrees" with Sotomayor's decision, we don't think that's accurate. The Justice Department largely supports the legal arguments that underpinned the district court position in favor of the city, and which were later incorporated by the appeals court. But ultimately, the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to send the case back to the lower court to reconsider some issues. And so we rule McConnell's statement .
Statement: Wisconsin law says all recall petition signers must sign in the presence of another person.
Speaker: kurt schuller
About the speaker: Republican Kurt Schuller is Wisconsin's state treasurer, a position he was elected to in November 2010.
Date: November 15, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Schuller said on Twitter that it’s a "violation of election law" to print out and sign your own recall petition. He said he was responding to a tweet he felt was incomplete. But it’s not a violation of election law. The same person can be both the signer and the circulator. We have a 10-character response for our rating of Schuller’s tweet: It’s .
Statement: Two-thirds of the people who receive the minimum wage are female.
Speaker: cokie roberts
About the speaker: Cokie Roberts is a political journalist and commentator for ABC News. She also is a contributor to National Public Radio's Morning Edition. She previously was co-anchor of ABC's Sunday morning show This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts and also worked for PBS.
Date: March 31, 2014
Topics: economy;women;punditfact
Context: an interview on NPR's "Morning Edition"
Fact-check justification: Roberts said, "Two-thirds of the people who receive the minimum wage are female." The actual figure is just a little bit lower. Federal data shows 62 percent of people who earn the federal minimum wage or below are women. The federal data has limitations, as it does not account for women in states with a higher minimum wage. One study says that if the federal government raises the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, women will benefit more than men by a 55-45 percent spread. Roberts  is on the right track but needs some additional information. That falls into a rating of .
Statement: Says Obama promised unemployment would never go above 8 percent.
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: October 11, 2012
Location: national
Topics: jobs
Context: a vice presidential debate
Fact-check justification:     Ryan said the Obama administration promised "unemployment would never get to 8 percent."     Obama didn’t say that. Rather, his Council of Economic Advisers predicted that the stimulus would hold it to that level. Their report included heavy disclaimers that the projections had "significant margins of error" and a high degree of uncertainty due to a recession that is "unusual both in its fundamental causes and its severity."     The sub-8 percent prediction did not hold , but it’s still  to characterize it as a promise or guarantee.     We rate Ryan’s statement .
Statement: When a sinkhole began dumping toxic water in Florida's aquifer, Rick Scott tried to cover it up.
Speaker: gwen graham
About the speaker: Gwen Graham lost the Democratic primary for governor in Florida in 2018. She won Florida's second district seat in the U.S. House in 2014 and served for one term. She is the daughter of former Florida Gov. Bob Graham.
Date: July 18, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: environment;water
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Graham said, "When a sinkhole began dumping toxic water in Florida's aquifer, Rick Scott tried to cover it up." She  by stating that Scott tried to cover up the sinkhole. News reports show that the head of the environmental protection department didn’t inform Scott until the media reported about it, which happened about three weeks after the sinkhole started. The department does not earn good marks for transparency: It initially labeled the sinkhole as a "water loss incident" and did not inform the public right away. But Graham goes too far in calling it an attempted cover up. Not announcing the incident was allowed under the law at the time. Graham’s tweet went further than past statements about the issue by squarely blaming Scott. The quick jab does not account for actions he took after he learned about the sinkhole, including an emergency order to change the notification rule and calling for a permanent law change about public notification (which he signed). Graham’s campaign now says that blaming Scott himself for the cover up is the same as blaming the administration. But the tweet should have been more precise. We rate this statement .
Statement: Head of Pfizer research: Covid vaccine is female sterilization.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: December 2, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The blog post says: "Head of Pfizer research: Covid vaccine is female sterilization."  The head of Pfizer research didn’t say this. A doctor whose LinkedIn profile says he worked at Pfizer nine years ago as a chief scientific officer has raised concerns that a COVID-19 vaccine could make women infertile if their immune systems target a certain protein. But experts say that even the rationale behind that idea is . If a COVID-19 vaccine could cause infertility in the way the post describes, so would having COVID-19 itself, and there’s been no  for that so far. We rate this blog post .
Statement: State Rep. Kathleen Peters has a 100 percent pro-abortion voting record – even voting against a ban on sex-selection abortions.
Speaker: national right to life committee
About the speaker: The National Right to Life Committee is an advocacy group that seeks to reduce abortions and end the right to legal abortion.
Date: December 31, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: abortion
Context: an article posted on the group’s website
Fact-check justification: National Right to Life said Peters "has a 100 percent pro-abortion voting record – even voting against a ban on sex-selection abortions." It’s  that she voted against a sex-selection abortion ban, no matter what reasoning she offered as an explanation. Whether all her votes were "pro-abortion" is another matter. Peters voted against two bills ostensibly designed to protect unborn children, but she voted for a third bill that aimed to save the life of children born after failed attempts at abortions. That doesn't make her voting record on the issue 100 percent "pro-abortion." We rate this statement .
Statement: Says there are half as many students in one Georgia technical college than there were two years ago.
Speaker: dubose porter
About the speaker: DuBose Porter, a Democrat, was a longtime state legislator in Georgia and newspaper executive.
Date: August 12, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: a meeting
Fact-check justification: To sum up, Porter said at a forum that enrollment at the Oconee Fall Line Technical College had dropped in half. The enrollment declines were severe, but not a 50 percent drop. The data show a decline in the percentage of Oconee students who received a HOPE Grant, which seems to support Porter’s argument. Porter’s overall point has merit, but his  was somewhat overstated. Our rating: .
Statement: Domestic violence "is seen as a pre-existing" health condition and "women had to pay 50 percent more for health care because of gender ratings," but under Obamacare, "all of that is over.
Speaker: gwen moore
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore is a Democratic member of Congress, representing Wisconsin's 4th District, which primarily includes Milwaukee. Moore, who served in the state Legislature from 1989 to 2004, was elected to Congress in 2004.
Date: September 29, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;crime;government regulation;women
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Moore said domestic violence "is seen as a pre-existing" health condition and "women had to pay 50 percent more for health care because of gender ratings," but under Obamacare, "all of that is over." The thrust of what Moore said is partially accurate, in that there is some  to back the pre-existing condition and 50 percent parts of her . She’s correct that the Affordable Care Act eliminates the treatment of domestic violence as a pre-existing condition and eliminates gender rating. For a statement that is partially accurate but leaves out important details, we give Moore a . If you would like to comment on this item, you can do so on the Journal Sentinel’s web page .
Statement: Says Nancy Pelosi was arrested after ripping a copy of the State of the Union speech.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 7, 2020
Topics: crime
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Trump , among others , wrongly claimed it was illegal.   And while some people have signed a Change.org petition calling for her arrest after she ripped up her copy of the president’s speech, no arrest has happened. We found no news coverage online about Pelosi being taken into custody. If she had been arrested, it would have drawn plenty of media attention.   We rate this Facebook post !
Statement: In ad attacking Rick Scott, says three executives of the Columbia/HCA hospital chain he ran were indicted.
Speaker: florida democratic party
About the speaker: the Florida affiliate of the Democratic Party.
Date: October 10, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: health care;legal issues;message machine 2010
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: In their two-minute ad attacking Scott, Florida Democrats say three executives of Columbia/HCA were indicted for fraud. They were, as was a fourth. But the government failed to secure a conviction on any of the executives indicted. That's a noteworthy caveat that would have put the indictments in the proper context. We rate the  .
Statement: 40 years of research, and no vaccine for HIV. At least 100 years of research and no vaccine for cancer. Ongoing research and no vaccine for the common cold. Now in less than a year, there's a vaccine for COVID-19?
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 6, 2020
Topics: public health;science;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: But the post goes too far in drawing conclusions about the vaccines’ safety based on how quickly they were developed compared with efforts to fight other illnesses. It ignores important differences in the development process, and characteristics of the illnesses that make them not directly comparable to COVID-19. Health officials have said that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are being held to the same rigorous safety and effectiveness standards as all other types of vaccines allowed in the United States.    The post contains elements of , but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.   We rate the post .
Statement: Says Allen West violated federal law by scuba diving with U.S. flag.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 14, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: legal issues;patriotism
Context: a blog
Fact-check justification: Is West breaking the law? No, at least in the opinions of experts. He may have violated U.S. Code, but there's no penalty for doing so, and there's a question if the code is anything more than a suggestion. And even if it was, the U.S. Supreme Court has already said you can burn a flag, so experts say (and we agree) that you can go swimming with one. We rate this  .