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Statement: President Obama has the most border patrols and border security deployed at the border of any previous president.
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: June 20, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: immigration
Context: an interview on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Wasserman Schultz said, "President Obama has the most border patrols and border security deployed at the border of any previous president." She is correct that the highest number of border patrol agents has been under Obama: there were 21,444 in 2011. Wasserman Schultz was careful here and said "most" and didn’t talk about the growth rate. But it’s worth noting that the big growth was during Bush’s tenure: between 2001 and 2009, the number of agents posted nationally rose from about 9,800 to a little more than 20,000. Other border security measures are not as simple to quantify. The key piece of infrastructure -- the fence -- was launched under Bush. Work on the fence and other border security improvements continued under Obama. We rate this  .
Statement: Businesses "will be required to certify to the IRS – under penalty of perjury – that Obamacare was not a motivating factor" for cutting staff.
Speaker: chris stirewalt
About the speaker: Chris Stirewalt joined Fox News Channel in July of 2010 and serves as digital politics editor. He previously worked for the Washington Examiner.
Date: February 11, 2014
Topics: health care;jobs;punditfact
Context: a daily summary of news "Fox News First"
Fact-check justification: Stirewalt said that under penalty of perjury, companies will need to tell the government that any downsizing they underwent was not due to Obamacare. The reporting part is partly accurate. Employers can lay people off but they can’t do so just to get under the 99-worker mark and get an extra year before they need to offer health insurance. There seems to be no support for the element that perjury charges await the firm that falsely reports why it downsized. Those rules have yet to be released. The  gets a key piece of information . We rate it .
Statement: Says "Ron Johnson calls Social Security a Ponzi scheme and wants to privatize the program.
Speaker: americans united for change
About the speaker: A liberal advocacy group, Americans United For Change states on its Web site that it was founded in 2005 to fend off President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security. In 2006, the organization "broadened its scope to build broad public and congressional support for action on a wide range of long-stalled policy issues."
Date: October 26, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: debt;federal budget;crime;social security
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Our rating Americans United for Change says: "Ron Johnson calls Social Security a Ponzi scheme and wants to privatize the program." Ponzi schemes are illegal. Johnson calls Social Security a legal Ponzi scheme to emphasize that it uses taxes on today’s wage earners to fund the retirement checks of millions of Americans. Johnson has expressed support for some form of privatization of Social Security, such as allowing individuals to invest some of their Social Security contributions, but it’s not clear that he backs complete privatization. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/9edf489e-cf8b-41ad-b0f3-359c9ac03823
Statement: Just 9 percent of Muslims in Pakistan view ISIS favorably. Unfortunately, that 9 percent is 16 million people. And that's just one country.
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: July 20, 2016
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;islam;terrorism
Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention
Fact-check justification: Gingrich said that just 9 percent of Muslims in Pakistan view ISIS favorably and that amounts to 16 million people. There are a some small issues with his statement. He got the numbers right but we don’t know how that might translate into a readiness to commit violence in the name of ISIS. Also, the survey was of all Pakistanis, not just Muslims. However, none of those details undermine Gingrich’s point. The data suggest there is large number of people who are inclined to respond to ISIS’ message. We rate this  . Correction, Sept. 12, 2016 : This report has been changed to accurately reflect Gingrich’s quote. He said, "Pew Research finds that just 9 percent of Muslims in Pakistan view ISIS favorably," not  "Pew Research finds that just 9 percent of Muslims in Pakistan support ISIS." The rating remains the same.
Statement: If you make more than $250,000 a year … you only really take home about $125,000.
Speaker: steve doocy
About the speaker: Steve Doocy is a host of the Fox and Friends program on the Fox News channel.
Date: July 11, 2012
Location: national
Topics: pundits;taxes
Context: a discussion on "Fox & Friends"
Fact-check justification: Doocy said someone who earns $250,000 a year ends up with take-home pay of just $125,000. But typical taxpayers end up with comfortably more than that. We found someone with that salary would take home $158,000 to $194,500 -- and even more if they lived in a state without income tax. Even our most extreme example produced quite a bit more take-home pay than he suggested. We rate Doocy’s statement .
Statement: Breaking Trump quietly announces Hillary's prosecution is moving forward.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 23, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The show’s host speculates that former President Donald Trump — then president-elect — would prosecute the Clinton family, a promise he made during the campaig n . The show cites a Nov. 22, 2016, tweet from New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who said: "Trump says ‘no’ when asked if he is taking investigations off the table for Clintons but adds he doesn’t want to ‘hurt the Clintons.’" Still, the Times that day reported that Trump "had no interest in pressing for Mrs. Clinton’s prosecution over her use of a private email server or for financial acts committed by the Clinton Foundation. "  Back here in the present, we found no  that Trump has more recently suggested he has inside knowledge of any prosecution proceeding against Clinton.   We rate this post .
Statement: CDC quietly deletes 6,000 COVID vaccine deaths from its CDC website total in one day.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 22, 2021
Topics: corrections and updates;public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Gateway Pundit headline said, "CDC Quietly Deletes 6,000 COVID Vaccine Deaths From Its CDC Website Total in One Day — Caught by Internet Sleuths." What the website deems a sneaky revelation of twice the amount of vaccine-related deaths in the U.S. was actually a clerical error, the CDC told us. Further, there is no proof that a COVID-19 vaccine played a role in the deaths reported to VAERS following an injection. We rate the post . CORRECTION , Aug. 12, 2021 : An earlier version of this article misstated the number of doses of COVID-19 vaccines administered in the U.S. from Dec. 14, 2020, through July 19, 2021. The rating is not changed.
Statement: The stock market has hit record numbers, as you know. And there has been a tremendous surge of optimism in the business world.
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: February 16, 2017
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "The stock market has hit record numbers, as you know. And there has been a tremendous surge of optimism in the business world." The three major stock indexes, Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all closed at record highs for five consecutive days. While investors are optimistic about Trump’s plans to cut taxes and eliminate regulations, experts say other factors play influential roles in the stock market. After rising in December, consumer confidence dropped in January, though consumers are confident the economy will expand in coming months. Trump’s statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it .
Statement: The Senate health care bill "would leave 24 million people without insurance coverage.
Speaker: mike enzi
About the speaker: Mike Enzi is a United States Senator from Wyoming.
Date: November 19, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: You may recall that many Republicans criticized Democrats for not taking enough precautions to ensure that illegal immigrants are barred from a public option and also argued that illegal immigrants ought to be prohibited from buying insurance in any government-sponsored health insurance exchange. And the biggest factor accounting for fewer uninsured in the Reid plan, as opposed to the House plan, is that the Senate plan has less severe penalties for those who do not buy insurance. But many conservatives have criticized Democrats for the mandate, arguing that the government ought not get involved in requiring health insurance. Still, the bottom line is that Enzi said the Reid plan would leave 24 million people uninsured, and the CBO confirms that figure. We rate his statement .
Statement: The Wall Street Journal reported that President Joe Biden knew June 18 that the Titan submersible had imploded, but he withheld the news until June 22.
Speaker: social media
About the speaker: logo
Date: June 22, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: social media posts
Fact-check justification: At the time, the Navy couldn’t definitely determine that the sound had come from the Titan, so the search and rescue mission continued, officials said. On June 22, debris from the submersible was found about 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic wreckage, the Coast Guard said. The same day, officials announced that the five men aboard the Titan were dead. The Wall Street Journal article did not address whether the president knew about the implosion before Navy officials publicly confirmed its occurrence June 22. We rate the  that the Wall Street Journal reported that Biden knew June 18 that the Titan had imploded but withheld the news until June 22 .
Statement: ISIS is "right now crucifying Christians in Iraq, literally nailing Christians to trees.
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: August 31, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: iraq;foreign policy;terrorism
Context: an interview with WFAA-TV
Fact-check justification: Cruz said ISIS is "right now crucifying Christians in Iraq, literally nailing Christians to trees." Earlier this year, ISIS strung up the bodies of individuals already executed on cross-like posts in a Syrian town. We did not confirm ISIS crucifixions of Christians in Iraq nor did Cruz give factual backup. We rate this  .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Monica Wehby and Jason Conger are "causing devastating consequences" for nearly 23,000 Oregonians looking for work.
Speaker: justin barasky
About the speaker: Justin Barasky is the national press secretary for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, a Washington D.C.-based organization dedicated to maintaining a Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate.
Date: January 15, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: workers
Context: a DSCC news release
Fact-check justification: It accuses Conger and Wehby, through "reckless refusal," of "causing devastating consequences" -- present tense -- for Oregon’s unemployed workers. That’s just ; neither is in a position to cast a vote on the issue, let alone cause "devastating consequences" for Oregonians. Even if one is elected to the Senate, he or she won’t be sworn in for nearly a year. Barasky, given the chance to revise the , doubled down, saying he was on "solid ground." We rate the  .
Statement: It was (Rob Portman's) job to stop China's illegal dumping of steel. He failed, looked the other way, did nothing.
Speaker: ted strickland
About the speaker: Ted Strickland was governor of Ohio from 2007 through 2010. He lost his bid for re-election in 2010 to Republican John Kasich.
Date: March 17, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: china;trade
Context: campaign ad, "Beltway Rob"
Fact-check justification: Strickland’s ad says that it was Portman’s "job to stop China’s illegal dumping of steel. He failed, looked the other way, did nothing." We consulted trade experts on both sides of the partisan aisle. They were unanimous that the ad’s statement is fundamentally . Portman did not have a role to play in anti-dumping measures as U.S. trade representative. The 2005 trade matter that the ad attacks him over had nothing to do with dumping. This case only reached Portman, and ultimately Bush, because it was filed under another part of trade law that triggers presidential involvement that isn't used for  "dumping" cases. And if you switched "Bush" for "Portman" in this ad, it would still be a cynical twisting of words. "Dumping" is not a catch-all for Chinese steel in the market. We rate this  .
Statement: As a result of Chris Sununu's vote against a Planned Parenthood contract, "nearly 3,000 fewer" women and families statewide accessed health care for birth control, cancer screenings and annual exams.
Speaker: colin van ostern
About the speaker: Colin Van Ostern is one of five Executive Councilors in New Hampshire, representing one-fifth of the state's population, which is about 265,000 people. The council approves state contracts and state appointments.  Previously, he worked on the campigns of several Democrats including U.S. Sens. John Edwards and Jeanne Shaheen and U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster. He's a senior adviser for Southern New Hampshire University and formerly worked as brand manager at Stonyfield Inc., a popular yogurt company in Londonderry, N.H. He has a wife and two children.  
Date: August 16, 2016
Location: new hampshire
Topics: abortion;health care;voting record
Context: Manchester, N.H
Fact-check justification: Democratic candidate for governor Colin Van Ostern said as a result of Chris Sununu’s vote against a Planned Parenthood contract, "nearly 3,000 fewer" women and families statewide accessed health care for birth control, cancer screenings and annual exams Sununu, a Republican, did vote against a $639,000 Planned Parenthood contract in 2015. It led to fewer shifts at clinics, but no patients were ever turned away or denied care, the organization said. The numbers cited by Van Ostern weren’t accurate. About 1,000 fewer women accessed Planned Parenthood from one year to the next. His numbers, however, failed to account for one clinic moving out of state, and another one being closed for 5 weeks following an incident of vandalism. Still, some patients may have stayed away following the publicity surrounding the vote.  We rate the statement .
Statement: I had zero emails that were classified.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: September 6, 2022
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Clinton claimed she had "zero emails that were classified. "  At the conclusion of all investigations, no documents included in her emails were found to be marked as classified.   However, hundreds of bits of information that State Department officials considered classified did end up in emails on Clinton’s private server. Clinton is technically correct, but she sidesteps the references to classified information that staffers introduced into the email chains. We rate this  .
Statement: Says a picture he posted on Facebook of a man posing in front of five decapitated human heads is "one of the subhuman mongrels our president set free.
Speaker: ted nugent
About the speaker: Ted Nugent, who lives near Waco, performed after Gov. Rick Perry's 2007 inauguration. He is an ardent supporter of Second Amendment gun rights. In 2014, he stumped with Texan Greg Abbott for governor and chaired Republican Sid Miller's campaign for state agriculture commissioner.
Date: June 12, 2014
Topics: iraq;terrorism;punditfact
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Nugent said a man squatting behind five heads had been set free by President Barack Obama to secure the freedom of an American soldier. The photo first appeared in mid March, two months before the prisoner swap. Nugent had plenty of opportunity to learn that the photo was not of one of the five released prisoners. He posted it two days after the connection to the Guantanamo detainees had been debunked. We rate the  .
Statement: When it comes to classified information at the State Department, Hillary Clinton's "the decider.
Speaker: juan williams
About the speaker: Juan Williams is a Fox pundit.
Date: September 9, 2015
Topics: legal issues;punditfact
Context: a discussion on Fox News' "The Five"
Fact-check justification: Williams said that at the State Department, Clinton was "the decider" over what was and wasn’t classified material. Formally speaking, there is some  to the . But practically, it’s a stretch. The responsibility is shared among many people, and while Clinton could play a role, it wouldn’t typically be her primary or even secondary concern. Additionally, the secretary of state isn’t the arbiter of information that originated from another agency. Williams’  is partially accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Florida is the first state requiring drug testing to receive welfare!
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: September 24, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: drugs;poverty
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: In 1996, Congress said states could test welfare recipients for illegal drug use. In 1999, Michigan was the first state to require all applicants to take drug tests, regardless of suspicion. But that law was struck down as unconstitutional, discouraging other states from requiring similar testing. This year, Florida became the first state to try mandatory drug screening of all applicants after Michigan's legal loss, while Arizona and Missouri enacted laws to test applicants they suspect might use drugs. A chain e-mail claims, "Florida is the first state requiring drug testing to receive welfare!" It is the first one — since the last one, which was Michigan. Meanwhile, other states also require drug-testing for some applicants. We rule this e-mail's  .
Statement: On the day of the New Hampshire primary in 1980, the top 13 people of Ronald Reagan's staff quit.
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: June 22, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: history
Context: a speech before the Atlanta Press Club
Fact-check justification: But Gingrich’s main point stands. There was a mass departure from the Reagan campaign. It began on the day of the 1980 New Hampshire primary. It included Reagan’s campaign manager Sears and other key members of the operation. We therefore rate Gingrich’s  .
Statement: Today's high food prices were planned during a 2015 food shortage simulation.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 12, 2022
Topics: food;facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: An Instagram video claims that a 2015 food shortage simulation was actually an attempt to plan problems with food prices and security that are happening today. But that distorts the mission of the simulation, which  had participants work together to solve a global food shortage, then pass what they’d learned to decision-makers. The simulation has nothing to do with current events affecting food prices and instability, and U.S. food plants are not under attack, as we’ve written before. We rate this  !
Statement: There is $50 billion a year wasted in the Medicare program.
Speaker: tim ryan
About the speaker: Tim Ryan is a representative of Ohio’s 13th Congressional District. Ryan served the state’s 17th Congressional District from 2003 until 2013, when he assumed office to represent the 13th District. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president. In 2022, he is running for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat.
Date: April 11, 2019
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;medicare
Context: a town hall
Fact-check justification: Ryan said: "There is $50 billion a year wasted in the Medicare program." The statement is correct in that in the past two years, the federal agency that administers Medicare reports that $52 billion and then $48.5 billion in "improper payments" were made  — ranging from payments made with bookkeeping errors to fraud. Ryan goes a bit too far in that some of those payments are underpayments and some were for payments in which there wasn’t sufficient documentation to determine whether the payment was improper. On balance, we rate his statement .
Statement: More than half of our unemployed Ohioans have been out of work for six months or more.
Speaker: rob portman
About the speaker: Rob Portman was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He is a former Republican congressman who also was a U.S. trade representative and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George H.W. Bush.
Date: August 18, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: economy
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Charges of callousness could go on all day but that is not for us to referee here. To those who decry the polarity of partisan politics, take solace: Both sides agree that too many people have been out of work for too long. Has it been six months or more? By one measure, it has. That’s why we rate Portman’s statement .