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Statement: The Clintons now charge the Secret Service $10,000 monthly rent for the use of (a) Secret Service residence and that rent is just about equal to their mortgage payment.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: September 17, 2007
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an e-mail message circulated by many people
Fact-check justification: The Clinton's now charge the Secret Service $10,000 monthly rent for the use of said Secret Service residence and that rent is just about equal to their mortgage payment." We checked with the Secret Service, which declined to comment and referred us to Clinton's Senate office. Philippe Reines, Clinton's press spokesman, said in an e-mail message, "They have not and do not receive money" from the Secret Service. That matches a statement from White House spokeswoman Nanda
Chitre, who told the New York Post in January 2001 that "They are entitled to
charge rent, but they have decided not to do it." So we find the charge to be .
Statement: Two years ago Providence alone spent $50,000 a year notifying the school department" about residents in the state's sex offender registry.
Speaker: joee lindbeck
About the speaker: Joee Lindbeck is a special assistant attorney general who heads the office's Legislation and Policy Unit.
Date: April 11, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: children;criminal justice;crime
Context: a House Finance Committee hearing
Fact-check justification: Special Assistant Attorney General Joee Lindbeck testified that "two years ago Providence alone spent $50,000 a year notifying the School Department" about residents in the state's sex offender registry. She was correctly quoting a memo regarding the approximate dollar amount but incorrectly attributed all of the spending on notifications to the School Department. On the one hand, everyone we spoke with said the biggest chunk of money went for school notifications. On the other, it's clear from the people with whom we spoke that a significant chunk of that money went to notifying other entities as well. We rate her statement  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: H&M advertised a sweatshirt that said, "Koolest Kid in the Klan.
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 25, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: It started appearing on Reddit and meme websites in 2018.   Doing a reverse image search of the boy in the KKK sweatshirt, we found what looks like the original image . In this version, though, the front of the sweatshirt is blank.   H&M didn’t respond to PolitiFact’s query about the Facebook post, but Lead Stories reported that a spokesperson told the fact-checking website that the photo is . We rate this image .
Statement: Eleven individuals who make over $30 million each got $22 million credit" from Wisconsin's manufacturing and agriculture tax credit.
Speaker: gordon hintz
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, was elected to the state Assembly in 2006. In September 2017, his colleagues elected him minority leader of the Assembly.
Date: January 30, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: agriculture;income;jobs;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Hintz said "11 individuals who make over $30 million each got $22 million (in) credit" from Wisconsin's manufacturing and agriculture tax credit. The figures are essentially solid, coming from the nonpartisan state Legislative Fiscal Bureau. The bureau estimates that 11 claimants (individuals or married couples) who each earn over $30 million will share a total of $22 million in credits. But those are estimates, for 2017, not credits actually received. For a statement that is accurate but needs additional information, our rating is .
Statement: Greg Casar passed paid sick leave.
Speaker: greg casar
About the speaker: Gregorio "Greg" Casar was initially elected to the Austin City Council in 2014. He represents the city's District 4.
Date: February 8, 2022
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;government regulation;public health;workers;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Casar said he "passed paid sick leave."  As a member of the Austin City Council, he spearheaded an Austin ordinance that would have required private employers to provide paid sick leave. But the ordinance was challenged in court and never took effect. Casar’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details — our definition of .
Statement: The Congressional Budget Office "has already doubled its estimate for the cost (of Obamacare) so far from roughly $800 billion to $1.7 trillion.
Speaker: michael riley
About the speaker: Michael G. Riley, a Narragansett businessman who calls himself a "small-government and free-market Republican," made an unsuccessful bid for Congress in the 2nd Congressional District in 2012. He is co-founder of the Coastal Management Group, a consulting and investment company. He has served on the Narragansett Pension Board and Charter Review Commission.
Date: July 26, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: deficit;federal budget;health care;taxes
Context: a taped debate on "State of the State"
Fact-check justification: Congressional candidate Michael Riley said the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the cost of Obamacare has doubled. The CBO itself says that's not  and that its estimates, on a year-by-year basis, have not changed significantly. Furthermore, the numbers cited by Riley are  because they represent only the gross costs of the health care law, not any savings. According to the CBO, the savings will actually reduce the deficit, although that estimate hasn’t been updated in two years. Information debunking similar claims has been available for the last four months here , here , here and, most recently, here . We rate his   . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: One" Texas school "district alone -- Austin ISD -- is expected to lose more than $530 million in local property taxes to Robin Hood this year.
Speaker: joe straus
About the speaker: State Rep. Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, was initially elected the speaker of the Texas House in 2009.
Date: July 16, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: education;state budget
Context: an email blast
Fact-check justification: Straus said the Austin district "is expected to lose more than $530 million in local property taxes to Robin Hood this year." As of May 2017, the Austin district estimated that in 2017-18 it would flow nearly $534 million in local property tax revenue through the state’s school finance system, nicknamed Robin Hood, to help equalize school funding across the state. We rate this  .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Breaking: woman says she was offered big money by Washington Post to accuse Roy Moore of misconduct.
Speaker: evening world
About the speaker: Evening World is a pro-Donald Trump website that publishes articles from other right-wing sources.
Date: November 13, 2017
Topics: elections;fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: We found no contact information or disclaimer on the Evening World’s website, eveningw.com . The pro-Donald Trump website lifts accounts from other conservative websites. ( The Evening World was an actual newspaper that published in New York City from 1887-1931). There is no  that a Post reporter offered a woman money to make an accusation against Moore. We rate this headline .
Statement: John McCain said last year he didn't know of a solution to the mortgage crisis.
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: September 16, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy;housing
Context: Golden, Colo
Fact-check justification: I'd love to give you a solution, but I don't know." He also said he he relies on his advisers and other "smart people" to keep him up to speed on economic matters. Let's stipulate that this interview does not showcase McCain at his best on issues of the economy and finance. But Obama's statement that McCain said he "didn't know" of a solution to the mortgage crisis appears to be accurate given the full context of the interview. We rate Obama's statement .
Statement: Obama opposed exploring for energy in Alaska.
Speaker: american energy alliance
About the speaker: The American Energy Alliance is a partner of the industry group Institute for Energy Research.
Date: March 27, 2012
Location: national
Topics: environment;gas prices;message machine 2012
Context: a video ad
Fact-check justification: The American Energy Alliance ad said that Obama "opposed exploring for energy in Alaska." That’s a narrow slice of reality. It’s  that the president opposes opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration, but the administration has approved plans that allow for expanded drilling in other parts of Alaska, including clearing a process that could let Shell sink new rigs in two Alaskan offshore areas as soon as summer 2012. The ad leaves out that significant piece of the picture. We rate it .
Statement: Iran has stockpiled 10 times as much enriched uranium as it had" in 2016.
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 13, 2020
Location: national
Topics: iran;ask politifact
Context: an op-ed on the CNN website
Fact-check justification: Biden said that Iran has 10 times as much enriched uranium as when he left office in 2016.  Iran went from having no more than 202.8 kilograms of enriched uranium to 2,105 kilograms, which is more than a tenfold increase. We rate this  . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click  here , for more.
Statement: Non-essential people get to file for unemployment and make two to three times more than normal," but essential workers still on the job get no pay raise.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 1, 2020
Topics: income;jobs;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post said that "non-essential people get to file for unemployment and make two to three times more than normal," but essential workers still on the job get no pay raise. This dynamic only applies to some workers who have modest incomes. For four months, from April through July of 2020, unemployed people are eligible for $600-per-week federal bonuses that, in some cases, can double or nearly triple what they earned on the job.  We rate the Facebook statement .
Statement: A lot of people are talking about" the removal of a "very fair prosecutor" in Ukraine.
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: July 25, 2019
Location: national
Topics: ethics;foreign policy
Context: a phone call
Fact-check justification: Trump said "a lot of people are talking about" the removal of a "very fair prosecutor" in Ukraine.  The former Ukrainian prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, whom Trump appeared to be referencing, did not enjoy the sterling reputation Trump claimed. Far from it. Many Western leaders and institutions were largely united in seeking Shokin’s removal. Domestically, he was "likely one of the most unpopular figures in Ukraine" over his reputation for corruption, the subject of popular street protests.   We rate this  . RELATED STORY:   Donald Trump said European nations have not put money into Ukraine. They have put in a lot RELATED STORY:   Trump’s Ukraine call, a whistleblower and the Bidens: What we know, what we don’t RELATED STORY :  Read the declassified whistleblower complaint on Ukraine, Biden and Trump
Statement: Half the kids coming out of college this year … can't find a job, or a job that's consistent with a college degree.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: August 20, 2012
Location: new hampshire
Topics: education;jobs
Context: Manchester, NH
Fact-check justification: Romney was right to say that half of American college graduates this year are either unemployed or underemployed, and he interpreted the corresponding research correctly. We give him a .
Statement: We've got about $3 trillion in trapped cash overseas that basically can't come back in this country because of our tax laws.
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: September 1, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corporations;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Ryan says: "We've got about $3 trillion in trapped cash overseas that basically can't come back in this country because of our tax laws." To avoid a 35 percent U.S. tax, U.S.-based multinational companies have opted not to "repatriate" roughly $3 trillion of their foreign profits, a figure that is growing. That is, they don’t bring the money back to their U.S. headquarters, where it can be used for things such as dividend payments or investments in their domestic operations. But the overseas profits aren’t literally trapped and indeed some foreign-earned profits are repatriated, though they are subject to the 35 percent tax. Ryan’s statement is accurate but needs additional information, our definition of .
Statement: Says Kamala Harris said, "We will take their (health) insurance away.
Speaker: cory gardner
About the speaker: Cory Gardner, a Republican, won a seat to represent Colorado in the U.S. Senate in 2014. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Colorado House of Representatives.
Date: February 14, 2019
Location: national
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Gardner says that Harris said, "We will take their (health) insurance away." Gardner’s reference was to Harris’ remarks at a CNN town hall. Gardner was adamant that's what Harris said, but that's . Asked about her support for Medicare for All, and its elimination of private health insurance, Harris criticized various aspects of private insurance and said, "let’s do away with all of that." The context was clear. That said, Harris does support Medicare for All, which would end the private health insurance system. But where Gardner was silent is that the plan Harris supports would create a single, national health insurance program that would cover everyone. People would change health insurance. We rate Gardner’s statement .
Statement: Russian President Vladimir Putin "was assassinated.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 19, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: On March 18, Putin made his first public appearance — speaking at a Moscow rally — since Russia invaded Ukraine. There have been no reports since then that the Russian president was assassinated. On March 3, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., suggested that someone should kill Putin, which the Biden White House said doesn’t reflect the U.S. government’s position. President Joe Biden has called Putin a "murderous dictator" and a "pure thug," and the New York Times reported on March 20 that Russia had summoned the American ambassador to Moscow to warn him that Biden’s name-calling had endangered the countries’ relations.   We rate this post .
Statement: A typical married couple "will contribute $119,000" into Medicare but will "receive $357,000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes.
Speaker: bob corker
About the speaker: Bob Corker is a senator from Tennessee.
Date: November 8, 2011
Location: tennessee
Topics: corrections and updates;deficit;health care;medicare
Context: a USA Today column
Fact-check justification: "If only one member of the couple had worked, we calculate a six-fold difference between contributions and benefits since both spouses are eligible for Medicare yet only one has paid taxes." The disparity has been noted by other researchers as well. One study by the Congressional Budget Office in 1983 found an even greater disparity than that cited by the Urban Institute. We find that Corker's description of the study merits a  rating on the -O-Meter. Editor's Note: Since this item was published, we made a modification in the ruling statement to make it more clear what precisely we were checking.
Statement: Says $15-an-hour proposal in Cleveland is "the most aggressive minimum wage increase in the country.
Speaker: joe roman
About the speaker: President and CEO, Greater Cleveland Partnership, a chamber of commerce organization
Date: April 25, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: labor;workers
Context: a Plain Dealer article
Fact-check justification: A proposed $15 minimum wage in Cleveland is the "most aggressive minimum wage increase in the country," according to the head of the Greater Cleveland Partnership, a chamber of commerce group. It turns out that Cleveland, with a minimum wage of $8.10, is at the lowest starting point of any municipality that has passed or is considering a $15 hike.  Also, the Cleveland proposal would increase the wage to $15 at once instead of building up gradually, as most other cities have done. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says "my advocacy questioning contracting out in Parks … delayed and altered the renewal of the Brooks contract, and reduced the number of contracted employees in Parks from over 100 to fewer than 40.
Speaker: amanda fritz
About the speaker: Amanda Fritz is a Portland city commissioner.
Date: April 12, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: city budget;city government;unions;workers
Context: a questionnaire
Fact-check justification: Labor had concerns. The terms of the Brooks contract did not change materially after 2009. The city, notably, did not reclassify positions to favor direct hires, as her office claims. Certainly Fritz’s questioning helped prompt a council-level discussion about an issue dear to the union and troubling to the parks commissioner. But the mechanism to reduce the use of contracted temps was a rule change, which stemmed from a charter change, in effect a year before Fritz took office.
Statement: Joe Biden left Marines behind in Afghanistan. And now he left a Marine behind in Russia.
Speaker: tom tiffany
About the speaker: In 2004 and 2008, Tom Tiffany ran for the 12th State Senate District, first against Senator Roger Breske, and then Jim Holperin losing both times in very close elections. In 2010, he ran for the Wisconsin State Assembly after the position was vacated by retiring incumbent, Representative Donald Friske. Tiffany won the primary, and later defeated Democrat Jay Schmelling 58.09% - 41.81%.
In 2012 Tiffany chose not to seek re-election to the State Assembly and to seek election to the State Senate after Holperin announced he would not run for reelection. He defeated Democrat Susan Sommer, 56% - 40%, in the general election on November 6, 2012. Tiffany succeeded fellow Republican Sean Duffy in Congress, winning a special election against Democrat Tricia Zunker in 2020.
Date: December 8, 2022
Location: national
Topics: afghanistan;military;wisconsin
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Tiffany claimed that Biden has left Marines behind in both Afghanistan and in Russia during his time in office.  Although the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 was hectic and resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. Marines, none were left behind when the withdrawal was complete.  As for Russia, Whelan was discharged from the Marines about a decade before his arrest. He was also not in Russia on any Marines-related business at the time, either. But, as noted, the view of the Marine Corps is that one truly never becomes a former Marine. We rate this  , meaning "the statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression."
Statement: Donald Trump's second impeachment "cost $33 million.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 13, 2021
Location: national
Topics: impeachment;facebook fact-checks
Context: a text post
Fact-check justification: Facebook post says Trump's second impeachment "cost $33 million." That’s . There is no concrete estimate for Trump’s second impeachment, which lasted just a few weeks. The $33 million figure appears to be based on an incomplete and  reporting of the cost of the Mueller investigation, which was not related to either of Trump’s impeachments. The CBO does not have cost estimates for the impeachment resolutions, and the House Judiciary Committee said the first inquiry had no effect on taxpayers. Experts say congressional salaries and other institutional costs are built into the budget. The Facebook post is . We rate it . RELATED:  Impeachment over, Donald Trump faces more investigations