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Statement: Gov Roy Cooper does not consider Type 1 diabetes an under lying health issue!
Speaker: billboard
About the speaker: A billboard along Interstate 94 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Date: February 13, 2021
Location: north carolina
Topics: coronavirus
Context: a billboard
Fact-check justification: The billboard says "Cooper does not consider Type 1 diabetes an (underlying) health issue!" North Carolina’s vaccine rollout prioritizes people with type 1 diabetes ahead of the general population. So it’s clear that Cooper, to some degree, considers the disease to be an underlying health issue. We rate this  .
Statement: There are no tax increases in this debt limit bill. Period.
Speaker: eric cantor
About the speaker: Eric Cantor is a former congressman who represented Virginia's 7th District from 2001 to 2014. He rose to House minority whip in 2009 and House majority leader in 2011. Cantor was upset by Dave Brat in the 2014 GOP primary for congress. He is now vice chairman and managing director of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank.
 
 
 
Date: August 1, 2011
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;taxes
Context: a message on Twitter
Fact-check justification: If the recommendations include tax increases, the Republican House could still vote the deal down.   Cantor's tweet is largely correct. It's  that there are no tax increases written directly into the bill. Still, the debt committee has the power to propose tax increases if a majority of its members feel it is appropriate, and if Congress approves those recommendations they would become law. Those are high hurdles, so we rate Cantor's statement .
Statement: The federal debt is more than $14 trillion, "almost equal to the size of our entire economy," and "every child born today inherits a $45,000 share of the national debt before they take their first breath.
Speaker: jim renacci
About the speaker: Jim Renacci, a Republican, is running against U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, in 2018. Renacci is the representative from Ohio's 16th Congressional District. He is a businessman and also the former mayor of Wadsworth. He was first elected to Congress in 2010.
Date: March 29, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: deficit;federal budget
Context: a video posted to YouTube
Fact-check justification: So where does that leave us? Renacci's statement is accurate. The overall debt at the time he made the statement, divided by the population at the time, supports his number. But we know today that the public debt is what the government actually owes to those who have lent it money, and that is a good bit less than the total debt. That's important information that puts Renacci's  into perspective, and on the -O-Meter, that makes the statement .
Statement: Not one illness has been reported from raw milk in" Texas "in more than four years. A total of six illnesses have occurred in the last 20 years.
Speaker: dan flynn
About the speaker: Dan Flynn represents Texas' second district in the Texas House.
Date: September 13, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: corrections and updates;food safety;public health
Context: a letter to state health officials
Fact-check justification: Flynn wrote: "Not one illness has been reported from raw milk in" Texas "in more than four years. A total of six illnesses have occurred in the last 20 years." Government counts suggest raw milk only rarely touched off illnesses in Texas over those decades. However, Flynn presented an incomplete too-low count, failing to note seven to 10 illnesses tied to raw milk that reportedly occurred in Texas last year. 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. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/f9375e24-ce06-4dd1-bb25-84ead1f35b19
Statement: Arizona midterm election was unlawful because the lab used to certify voting machines was not accredited.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: November 23, 2022
Location: arizona
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claimed the 2022 Arizona election was unlawful because voting equipment was improperly certified by a voting system test laboratory whose certification had expired. Arizona election officials said that is not the case, and that all equipment used had been certified in accordance with state and federal law. The federal Election Assistance Commission said that although paperwork was not updated for Pro V&V, one of the testing labs used, in 2017-2019, the company has remained certified.  We rate this . PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report RELATED: Maricopa’s final election results aren’t missing thousands of votes RELATED: Kari Lake claimed Maricopa County voters were ‘disenfranchised.’ Experts disagree. RELATED: No, Maricopa vote tabulators didn’t lead to ballots with ‘no chain of custody’
Statement: We are "borrowing Saudi money for Saudi oil" with the result being "dependency and debt.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: June 17, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: Houston, Texas
Fact-check justification: But the two phenomena aren't causally related. The Saudis aren't running a company store, where we're required to borrow from them to buy the product. Rather, these are two issues taking on new relevance because of dramatic increases in oil prices. McCain isn't entirely , but by his choice of words he gives the impression that the two dynamics are working together. For this reason, we find his statement .
Statement: The overall fact about illegal immigration is that it's not actually getting worse.
Speaker: rachel maddow
About the speaker: Rachel Maddow is the host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show”. She formerly hosted a radio program of the same name on the defunct Air America network.
Date: August 2, 2010
Location: national
Topics: immigration;pundits
Context: "The Rachel Maddow Show"
Fact-check justification: The test is whether the illegal immigrant population will continue to decline after the economy picks up. By two key measurements, the numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the border are not increasing. At least for the time being, the numbers in both counts are going down. But when the economy picks up again, it is possible that illegal immigration will once again increase.   Nevertheless, looking at the numbers, we rate Maddow's statement .
Statement: West Virginia "has the highest overdose death rate in the nation.
Speaker: evan jenkins
About the speaker: U.S. Congressman representing West Virginia's 3rd district.
Date: March 20, 2018
Location: national
Topics: health care;public health
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Jenkins said that West Virginia "has the highest overdose death rate in the nation." That is accurate according to official federal data -- in fact, the comparison is not even close. We rate the statement .
Statement: The study of the Savannah River Estuary . . . clearly demonstrates the project can be constructed and [environmental] impacts will be mitigated.
Speaker: curtis foltz
About the speaker: Curtis Foltz is executive director of the Georgia Ports Authority.
Date: November 8, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: environment;transportation
Context: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fact-check justification: None of these comments said the problems are impossible to fix. They do question whether the corps plan will fall short of its goal. We think it’s fair to say that while the corps’ environmental report may have concluded that dredgers can mitigate the environmental problems they would cause, as Foltz stated, critiques by other federal agencies and an independent study muddy the waters. Foltz should have acknowledged their reservations. Since his statement needs more context, it meets PolitiFact’s definition of .
Statement: Your tax dollars are not being used to sue you, the people.
Speaker: alan hays
About the speaker: Sen. Alan Hays (R-Umatilla) represents parts of Lake, Marion, Seminole, Sumter, and Volusia counties
Date: July 13, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: redistricting
Context: a public hearing about redistricting
Fact-check justification: The Secretary of State is the defendant because the office is charged with implementing the amendment. (Brown and Diaz-Balart are using legal defense funds -- not tax dollars -- to pay for the lawsuits, said David Simon, spokesman for Brown.) Hays told a group of residents concerned about redistricting, "Your tax dollars are not being used to sue you the people who voted the 63 percent." But tax dollars are being used by the House to try to strike down Amendment 6, as well as by the Secretary of State to defend the amendment in court. We rate this  .
Statement: Florida is one of only three states that require licenses for commercial interior designers.
Speaker: national federation of independent business-florida
About the speaker: The National Federation of Independent Business is a small business association representing small and independent businesses.
Date: January 25, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: consumer safety
Context: testimony to Florida House Business and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
Fact-check justification: In New York, for instance, a "certified interior designer" applicant must pay a $377 fee, be at least 21, have at least seven years of acceptable education and experience credits, pass the NCIDQ, and "be of good moral character." Douglas said that "Florida is one of only three states that requires licenses for commercial interior designers. Both the pro- and anti-licensing camps agree that only Florida, Nevada and Louisiana require licenses to practice commercial interior design, and a court upheld the Florida law earlier this month. The state Legislature is trying to remove some of the restrictions on these licenses, but it has not happened yet. So we rate this statement .
Statement: Mark Kirk's claim of national security expertise is "based on his military record which he lied about at least 10 times.
Speaker: tammy duckworth
About the speaker: Tammy Duckworth was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016 after representing Illinois' 8th Congressional District for two terms. She is an Iraq War veteran and former Assistant Secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Date: August 18, 2016
Location: illinois
Topics: military
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Duckworth said Kirk claims military and defense expertise "based on his military record which he lied about at least 10 times." There is no disputing that Kirk spent the summer of 2010 explaining and apologizing for misstatements in describing his military experience. The Duckworth campaign listed these 10 examples when we asked: Naval Intelligence Officer of the Year Award Taking fire while flying over Iraq Serving combat duty in Kosovo Being shot at in Afghanistan Being "deployed" to Afghanistan Taking part in Operation Desert Storm Participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom Claimed to be the only member of Congress who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom Claimed to command the Pentagon’s war room Claimed he had not violated Pentagon policy about campaigning while on duty The fourth  on this list, that Kirk lied about being shot at in Afghanistan, is in dispute. The original source for that  contains an update indicating Kirk described two separate incidents. Kirk’s current campaign spokesman, Kevin Artl, reiterated that explanation when contacted for this article. The groundwork on the other nine claims was done six years ago or longer, sometimes by multiple media outlets. If you follow the links included above, you’ll see that the coverage at times creates a confusing patchwork of sourcing that makes it difficult to put all this into a smooth timeline. You’ll also see a long pattern -- albeit one that appears to have ended after the summer of 2010 -- of ambiguous language and conflicting claims throughout Mark Kirk’s frequent pronouncements on his military activity. We rate Duckworth’s  .
Statement: Toomey crossed party lines… to stop gun sales to suspects on the terror watch list.
Speaker: independence usa pac
About the speaker: Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's PAC.
Date: August 1, 2016
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: guns
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: This ad is  at its core, largely because a measure to stop gun sales to suspects on the terror watch list never passed. Toomey’s own bill failed to garner significant support from either side of the aisle. Though he voted for the Collins amendment which had bipartisan support, that amendment was drafted by a Republican. In the end, Toomey voted with his party when he voted against Feinstein’s bill and in favor of Cornyn’s. We rate the  .
Statement: Your state will send you free infant formula if you call Enfamil and Similac customer service numbers.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 16, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: There’s no process in which parents call the company, the company notifies the state in which they live, and then that state sends the parents six cans of free formula.    Enfamil did not respond to our questions about the post. We tried calling the customer service number provided in the post but were on hold indefinitely.   Still, we found no credible reports to corroborate this .   We rate this post .
Statement: Private insurance companies in this country spend between 12 and 18 percent on administration costs. The cost of administering the Medicare program, a very popular program that works well for our seniors, is 2 percent. We can save approximately $500 billion a year just in administration costs.
Speaker: bernie sanders
About the speaker: Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
Date: September 17, 2017
Location: national
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Sanders said, "Private insurance companies in this country spend between 12 and 18 percent on administration costs. The cost of administering the Medicare program, a very popular program that works well for our seniors, is 2 percent. We can save approximately $500 billion a year just in administration costs." Government and independent researchers corroborate the percentage figures Sanders cited, but the researchers who came up with the $500 billion savings admitted that "any such estimate is imprecise." Also, the administrative costs of private insurance and Medicare cover different types of costs. Experts told us that a single-payer system for the United States would have lower administrative costs than today’s private insurance, but it likely wouldn’t be able to achieve administrative costs as low as the existing Medicare program. Finally, the figures are  because lowering administrative costs wouldn’t necessarily lower overall costs. In fact, administrative costs sometimes help make the delivery of health care more efficient. We rate this statement .
Statement: Extending current tax rates would "average more than $100,000 a year to millionaires and even billionaires.
Speaker: austan goolsbee
About the speaker: Austan Goolsbee is the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. He also serves as chief economist of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Goolsbee is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He was an economic adviser to Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign.
Date: September 12, 2010
Location: national
Topics: this week - abc news;taxes
Context: an interview on "This Week."
Fact-check justification: The JCT found that for those who make between $500,000 and $1 million, the lower rates were worth an average $17,467 per tax filer, and for those who make between $200,000 and $500,000, the lower rates were worth $7,152 per tax filer. The Tax Policy Center's numbers were similar . So Goolsbee is correct that the expiring tax cuts are worth, on average, more than $100,000 for millionaires and billionaires. But the proposal the president supports would let tax cuts expire for some people who make high salaries but aren't millionaires, which Goolsbee didn't mention. So we deduct a tick from the -O-Meter and rate his statement .
Statement: A new federal program "is giving homeowners up to $3,708 every year.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: October 14, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat  news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) If you search for  to corroborate the stimulus  online, you’ll find none. But there are some fact-checks debunking it .   We rate this  .
Statement: Last year, Beaverton School District had the highest number of homeless students ever recorded in Oregon.
Speaker: beaverton
About the speaker: The city of Beaverton, seven miles west of Portland, is Oregon's sixth largest city with nearly 87,000 residents.
Date: November 17, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: education;housing
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: What we meant was the Beaverton School District had the highest number of homeless students recorded in 2009-10 and the highest ever recorded for the Beaverton School District." Certainly, there are a lot of homeless children in Beaverton, but it’s not accurate to say it was the largest on record in the state. Imlah said he would correct the . We rate the statement . Comment on this item.
Statement: Says Donald Trump has written 10 checks to Hillary Clinton "and four of those checks were not to her Senate campaign. … It was to her presidential campaign.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: March 3, 2016
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance
Context: Detroit
Fact-check justification: Cruz said Donald Trump has written 10 checks to Hillary Clinton "and four of those checks were not to her Senate campaign. … It was to her presidential campaign." He has a point that Trump has made multiple campaign donations to Clinton, but he overstated the amounts. Trump ended up making five donations worth $4,100 to Clinton’s Senate campaign, and two donations worth $2,300 to her presidential campaign. The presidential donations were eventually refunded in their entirety. We rate Cruz’s statement .
Statement: Ilhan Omar just hosted a flag burning party.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 8, 2019
Topics: patriotism;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The story originated on Bustatroll.com , where it was tagged with labels like "conservative fan fiction" and "satire for Islamaphobes." "Saturday night at Ilhan’s!" reads a description of the invitation in the  news story about the Minnesota Democrat. "Bring your flags and throw them into the bonfire! Burgers, shawarma, and tea for all!" We rate this Facebook post !
Statement: Says "black Americans have 10 times less wealth than white Americans.
Speaker: beto o'rourke
About the speaker: Beto O’Rourke is a former representative of Texas’s 16th Congressional District. He represented the district from 2013 until 2019, when he gave up his seat to run a senate campaign against incumbent Ted Cruz, which O’Rourke lost. He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Columbia University. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president.
Date: July 26, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: economy;income;poverty
Context: the Houston Defender
Fact-check justification: O’Rourke said that "black Americans have 10 times less wealth than white Americans." Survey results pinpoint two ways to gauge such disparities. According to the Fed’s 2016 consumer survey, black Americans had one-tenth the median wealth of white Americans while black Americans had a little over one-seventh the average wealth of white Americans. We rate this  .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year.
Speaker: maría teresa kumar
About the speaker: María Teresa Kumar is president and CEO of Voto Latina.
Date: October 2, 2016
Topics: immigration;social security;taxes;punditfact
Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Kumar said, "Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year." A left-leaning research organization estimated that undocumented immigrants paid about $12 billion in total taxes in 2010, while a conservative think tank pegged it at $17.6 billion. Kumar told us she meant Social Security taxes, but that would make her figure less accurate. According to the Social Security Administration, half of the $12 billion in payroll taxes comes from employers. (But she didn’t say it this way.) We rate Kumar’s  .
Statement: Even the (Congressional Budget Office) says if you lower Medicare to allow 50 year olds to get into it, you can not only save the government money, but you can lower premiums for all Americans.
Speaker: cory booker
About the speaker: Cory Booker is a senator from New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2013, making him the first African-American senator from New Jersey and the first African-American elected to the Senate since Barack Obama in 2004. Booker served as mayor of Newark from 2006 until 2013. He has a bachelor's degree in political science and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University, an honors degree in United States history from The Queens College as a Rhodes Scholar and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and suspended his campaign in January 2020.
Date: February 4, 2019
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview on CBS This Morning
Fact-check justification: Booker said the CBO had reported that allowing 50-year-olds into Medicare would save the government money and reduce premiums for everyone. The senator’s office acknowledged there is no such CBO report. The article behind Booker’s statement discussed a different idea — making it mandatory for people 55 and over to switch to Medicare. While it said there would be some follow-on savings, it also said there would be higher costs, and it made no attempt to say what the net effects would be. We rate this  .