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Statement: We are No. 1 among all large states in having fully vaccinated teenagers. We are No. 2 in all large states for having fully vaccinated five- to 11- year-olds.
Speaker: kathy hochul
About the speaker: Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, is the governor of New York state. She is a former member of Congress.
Date: February 27, 2022
Location: new york
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Hochul said New York State ranked No. 1 one among large states in having fully vaccinated teenagers and No. 2 among large states for having fully vaccinated 5 to 11 year olds.  Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirms Hochul’s statement.  Hochul qualified her  by saying "large states" in a news conference she held to announce the lifting of mask mandates in schools. This qualification is important, as New York does not lead the country in vaccinations among children and teenagers when all 50 states are considered.  We rate this  .
Statement: The Obama-Biden Administration did not conduct workplace raids—in fact, it ended them.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: September 12, 2019
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Biden said, "The Obama-Biden Administration did not conduct workplace raids—in fact, it ended them." The Obama administration ended the practice of large-scale raids in which hundreds of immigrants were arrested at a time. Obama prioritized the prosecution of employers who knowingly hired unauthorized workers. This was done through increased audits of I-9 forms. But that doesn’t mean there were no onsite operations. In some cases, workers were arrested when ICE agents executed search warrants. Biden’s  is partially accurate. We rate it .
Statement: College debt has increased 170 percent since 2006 and now exceeds $1.5 trillion dollars, which is second only to mortgage debt and surpasses even credit card debt.
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: March 6, 2019
Location: california
Topics: debt;economy
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The most recent Federal Reserve figures show it’s increased 201 percent since 2006. Harris was right about college debt topping $1.5 trillion, and being second only to mortgage debt. We rate her overall statement .   – 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: Pier 39 terrorist was an anti-Trump antifa supporter.
Speaker:  infowars
About the speaker: Infowars is a conspiracy oriented website run by Alex Jones.
Date: December 23, 2017
Topics: fake news;crime;terrorism;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: Infowars’ headline said, "Pier 39 terrorist was an anti-Trump antifa supporter." Infowars drew from the suspect’s Facebook page, which showed he liked a few anti-Trump and Antifa pages as well as hundreds of unrelated groups. The FBI criminal complaint makes no mention of Jameson liking these groups, which indicates that prosecutors believe his liking of these groups didn’t play any role in the attempted terrorist plot. We rate this statement .
Statement: The federal government is spending $46,000 a year per family (or group of four) and could balance its budget by dropping that to $30,000.
Speaker: mark neumann
About the speaker: Mark Neumann is a developer and home builder from Nashotah. He was a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Wisconsin in 2012. He ran for governor in 2010 and formerly represented southern Wisconsin in Congress.
Date: September 16, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: The second we can fix by raising taxes or cutting benefits." Our conclusion Neumann said you could balance the federal budget by reducing the amount spent from $46,000 per family of four to $30,000 -- a reduced amount that is, in his view, still too high. We can’t rule on his opinion, but the math  adds up. It’s not a common calculation and therefore limited in its meaning, but experts agreed it’s not . We rate the statement .
Statement: Some even advocate wiping out 401(k)s entirely and replacing them with government-run accounts.
Speaker: john boehner
About the speaker: John Boehner of Ohio is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was formerly the Republican minority leader from 2007-2011, and was the majority leader briefly prior to that.
Date: March 24, 2009
Location: national
Topics: retirement
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Use of the word "some" may provide Boehner some wiggle room here ? he could probably safely say that "some" people in Washington may be advocating darn near anything ? but the context suggests Democrats are behind it. We haven't found any, so Boehner's  comes off sounding more like a scare tactic. And so we rate the statement .
Statement: In 2009 … Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents.
Speaker: lee camp
About the speaker: Lee Camp is a comedian and writer, who hosts Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp on RT America. 
Date: April 17, 2016
Topics: global news service;labor;foreign policy;workers
Context: an episode of "Redacted Tonight"
Fact-check justification: Camp said, "In 2009 ... Hillary Clinton was at the State Dept working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents." Leaked cables show that the U.S. Embassy in Haiti opposed the minimum wage hike that the Haitian parliament passed in 2009, and discussed the issue with business groups. However, the cables do not contain conclusive  that the State Department actively pressured Haiti to block the increase nor do they prove that Clinton personally played a role. We rate Camp’s  . Update, April 21, 2016:  After we published this fact-check, the State Department told us it had no public, official position in the Haitian minimum wage debate. "The U.S. Department of State did not officially oppose or support the three-step proposed minimum wage increases in Haiti – in 2009, 2010, and 2012 – as this was an internal matter," a spokesperson said. The State Department’s public stance does not alter the content of the memos, however. They show that U.S. Embassy officials in Haiti clearly opposed the wage increase.
Statement: Video shows man trying to "fill entire pickup bed with fuel amidst last month's fuel shortage.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 7, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: "Dude tries to fill entire pickup bed with fuel amidst last month’s fuel shortage," reads the headline of one June 7 blog post.   The post shares the video on YouTube with the title "Insane man fills his truck bed with gasoline!" 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 .) We rate claims that the video is authentic .
Statement: A bill to eliminate Delta Air Lines' jet fuel tax breaks "violates federal law and puts the state at risk of losing critical funding from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Speaker: trebor banstetter
About the speaker: Delta Spokesman.
 
Date: February 2, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: corporations;gas prices;government regulation;state budget;taxes
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: He bases that on federal laws stating that aviation fuel taxes must be used for airports or aviation purposes and an FAA policy statement last November, clarifying the agency’s position and giving governments no more than three years to adjust. We know this: Georgia lawmakers have been passing jet fuel tax exemptions for Delta since 2005, when the airlines was in dire financial trouble. Since Banstetter made his statement, Ehrhart has said he’s developing a plan that would allow the tax money to go to aviation uses by the FAA’s three-year deadline. But reading the bill you couldn’t know that. We rate Banstetter’s statement .
Statement: We live in the most incarcerated country in the world.
Speaker: john legend
About the speaker: John Legend is a musical artist who won an Oscar with Common in 2015 for a song on the soundtrack to the move "Selma."
Date: February 22, 2015
Topics: criminal justice;crime;punditfact
Context: a speech at the Oscars
Fact-check justification: Legend said, "We live in the most incarcerated country in the world." The United States far and away incarcerates more people than its peers, in terms of the portion of its population behind bars, despite having a comparable amount of crime. Only Seychelles technically has a higher incarceration rate than the United States. But experts said it’s an outlier because of its miniscule size and largely should be disregarded. Maybe so, but it is a point at least worth noting. Legend’s Oscar-night  is accurate but needs additional information. We rate it .
Statement: The Colorado caucus system for selecting Republican delegates is "rigged.
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: April 11, 2016
Location: colorado
Topics: elections;ethics;negative campaigning
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Trump said the Colorado GOP’s caucus system is "rigged" and "crooked." There are plenty of problems with Colorado’s caucus system. The delegate selection process is dominated by party activists and insiders, and this year’s caucuses were hampered -- at best -- by confusion and technical glitches. But Trump is complaining about rules that were in place eight months ago, when the Republican presidential race was clogged with 17 candidates. There is no  the rules were designed to favor a specific candidate. His campaign took a pass on the Colorado caucuses, focusing instead on the delegate-rich New York primary, while Cruz ran an exhaustive ground game in the Centennial State. We rate his  .   https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/10e606f7-fc56-4d69-9c82-562b82fdb45b
Statement: Barack Obama's church gave a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: January 18, 2008
Location: national
Topics: religion
Fact-check justification: Obama said he did not agree with the award; for more on that, see a related statement here . The magazine award became a campaign issue when Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wrote about the award. To most Americans, Cohen wrote, Farrakhan is racist with a history of making anti-Semitic remarks. Though the church didn't give the award, the magazine was founded by the church's senior pastor and is closely related. For that reason, we find the statement .
Statement: The unemployment rate is declining faster in Tampa "than almost anywhere else.
Speaker: bob buckhorn
About the speaker: Bob Buckhorn is making his second run for mayor in Tampa's nonpartisan elections on March 1, 2011. He previously served on the City Council from 1995-2003.
Date: August 28, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a speech at the RNC
Fact-check justification: Buckhorn said that the unemployment rate is declining faster in Tampa "than almost anywhere else." We have a few quibbles with that. Buckhorn could have more clear that he was referring to a part of the Tampa Bay area and that the statistic only measures metropolitan areas. Also, the real story behind a declining rate isn’t always so cheery. It doesn’t account for discouraged workers, which are the biggest drivers behind Florida’s falling rate. On the flip side, he gives himself some cover with use of the word "almost," and the metro area has seen a significant dip in the unemployment rate. On balance, we rate this  . PolitiFact Florida is partnering with 10 News for the election. See video fact-checks here .
Statement: I was one of the few, very few, who voted `no' on the Iran deal.
Speaker: dave brat
About the speaker: Dave Brat represents Virginia's 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was first elected to the seat in 2014 after pulling of a stunning upset of Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Republican Primary. He is active in the Freedom Caucus, a conservative wing of Republican congressmen.
Prior to Congress, Brat was chairman of the business and economics department at Randolph-Macon College. 
Brat, a midwestern native, has obtained a Masters in Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in economics from American University. He began teaching at Randolph-Macon in 1996.
Brat served two Governors on the Joint Advisory Board of Economists. He was president of the Virginia Association of Economists.
Date: August 10, 2015
Location: virginia
Topics: congress;nuclear;voting record
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Brat says, "I was one of the few, very few, who voted `no’ on the Iran deal." But the Iran accord has not come up for a vote. What Brat voted against was a procedural bill that gave Congress the power to review and potentially reject the Iran accord. Brat objected that Obama negotiated the deal as an executive agreement instead of as a treaty, which would have been required to clear a higher level of congressional support. The congressman was in the minority on a 400-25 bipartisan vote to pass the procedures. Brat’s statement implies that those who backed the bill supported the Iran deal. To the contrary, had the bill failed, Obama could have enacted the Iran deal without input from Congress. Almost 200 Republicans who voted for the procedures that allow them to have a say subsequently have signed a resolution opposing the Iran accord. Clearly, Brat cast what he sees as a protest vote against the deal. But again, the real vote on the accord has not occurred and when it does, many in addition to Brat are poised to oppose it. We rate Brat’s statement .
Statement: New York state "hospitals reporting thousands of fungus lung infections due to wearing a mask!!
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 30, 2020
Location: new york
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: And Brian Conway, a spokesperson for the Greater New York Hospital Association, told us he asked two colleagues "who would be the most likely to have heard this" and said they haven’t heard anything about it.   In a recent fact-check debunking a  that general use of face masks can cause fungal and bacterial pneumonia, the Associated Press quoted Davidson Hamer, an infectious-disease specialist at Boston University.   "There’s no  of masks leading to fungal or bacterial infections of the upper airway or the lower airway as in pneumonia," he said.   There is a similar dearth of  to corroborate the  that hospitals in New York have reported thousands of fungus lung infections caused by face masks, though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does recommend washing cloth face coverings after each use.    We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: The majority of Georgians incarcerated in local jails have never been convicted of crime. They are simply too poor to pay their bail.
Speaker: stacey abrams
About the speaker: Stacey Abrams, a Democrat and national voting rights activist, is running for Georgia governor in 2022. She lost the Georgia governor's race in 2018. She is a former House Minority Leader for the Georgia General Assembly and State Representative for the 84th House District.
Date: February 14, 2018
Location: georgia
Topics: crime
Context: campaign website
Fact-check justification: Abrams said, "The majority of Georgians incarcerated in local jails have never been convicted of crime. They are simply too poor to pay their bail." State data shows that the majority of people in county jails are awaiting trial. A criminal justice professor cautioned that claiming they "have never been convicted of crime" could be an overstatement, since some individuals may have had prior convictions. The state report did not indicate how many people were jailed because they could not afford bail. Yet experts told us that based on national trends, it’s possible that many Georgians in jail are there because they cannot pay for bail for current charges. With those caveats, we rate Abrams' statement .
Statement: Florida's economy "became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008.
Speaker: rick santorum
About the speaker: Rick Santorum is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
Date: January 23, 2012
Location: national
Topics: economy;gas prices;housing;oil spill;florida
Context: Tampa, Fla
Fact-check justification: Rick Santorum said Florida's economy "became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008." He's right that an oil price peak in July 2008 did drive up other costs and perhaps bumped up the unemployment rate as more strapped Floridians sought to work to help cover prices at the pump. But a burst housing bubble already had Florida's economy flailing. And as oil prices dove the second half of the year, collapses in housing and banking drove Florida unemployment into far more dire territory, creating the "bad economy" Floridians still face. Were oil prices a factor? Sure. But scarcely a significant one, as Santorum made it sound. We rate his  .
Statement: The United States "stood alone in the war in Iraq.
Speaker: debbie wasserman schultz
About the speaker: Debbie Wasserman Schultz became the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 and resigned in July 2016. The Florida Democrat was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 after serving in the state senate. She represents Congressional District 23 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Date: September 11, 2013
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: a CNN interview
Fact-check justification: When Blitzer asked about Obama's decision to strike Syria, Wasserman Schultz defended the president and argued that he has support, unlike when the United States "stood alone" against Iraq. Although Democrats often criticize Bush for invading Iraq without more global backing, including that of the United Nations, Bush did put together a coalition. Nearly 50 countries, most notably Britain, ultimately supported the invasion, with many sending troops of their own. That's roughly on par with the support network that Obama has put together for action against Syria, and possibly exceeds it. We rate her  !
Statement: The single-largest expense in  over half of American households is child care.
Speaker: ivanka trump
About the speaker: Ivanka Trump is an American businesswoman and the daughter of and assistant to President Donald Trump.
Date: April 25, 2017
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;families
Context: Berlin, Germany
Fact-check justification: Trump said that child care is the single largest expense faced by half of American families. We could find no data to support that. The number we did find suggests it isn’t the case. A government survey in 2011 found that the average family spends about 7 percent of its monthly income on child care. For the poorest households, the number rises to nearly 40 percent. Meanwhile, the government’s consumer expenditure survey found households with children spend at least 30 percent of their money on housing and at least 17 percent on transportation. The two data sets are not perfectly comparable, but they don’t suggest that child care tops the list of expenses for half of all families. Child care is a staggering burden for lower income households. With that in mind, we rate this  .
Statement: Pentagon confirms they may court martial soldiers who hold Christian faith.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: May 1, 2013
Location: national
Topics: military;religion
Context: Web posts
Fact-check justification: Recent headlines and articles offered versions of the  that the "Pentagon confirms they may court-martial soldiers who hold Christian faith." Instead, a Defense Department spokesman had explained that proselytizing — "unwanted, intrusive attempts to convert others" — wasn’t permitted and that punishment for breaking military rules is decided "case by case." Conservative religious groups argue this means "sharing the gospel" would become a crime. But no policy we saw suggests that the Pentagon would court-martial soldiers "who hold Christian faith." Quite the opposite — much of the language from the Defense Department reinforces the right of military members to practice their religion, as long as it’s in a way that respects others’ belief systems. Chaplains already follow such rules. Still, there’s a sliver of  — if you believe your Christian faith compels you to try to convert others in a way people find harassing, it’s possible you could face court-martial, though such a thing has yet to happen. We rate the  .
Statement: President Barack Obama has "announced that he would not sign ANY spending bills this year unless sequestration spending cuts are eliminated.
Speaker: john boehner
About the speaker: John Boehner of Ohio is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was formerly the Republican minority leader from 2007-2011, and was the majority leader briefly prior to that.
Date: July 22, 2013
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Boehner said that Obama has "announced that he would not sign ANY spending bills this year unless sequestration spending cuts are eliminated." Obama did issue a strongly worded statement opposing two spending bills backed by House Republicans, but Boehner exaggerated how firm a veto threat it was and underplayed the president’s openness to negotiation. Meanwhile, Obama did say he opposed bills enacting the House Republican budget, but he didn’t make restoration of sequestration cuts a non-negotiable demand in any negotiated deal. On balance, we rate Boehner’s  .