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Statement: The $290 million structural surplus in the 2011-'13 Wisconsin budget is not real because it is based on the assumption that Congress will reinstate the estate tax.
Speaker: donna seidel
About the speaker: Democrat Donna Seidel, the assistant minority leader of the Wisconsin Assembly, represents a Wausau area district. She was elected in 2004.
Date: July 5, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: But the Legislative Fiscal Bureau calculated the budget the way it always has. They even footnoted the issue for clarity. The bureau’s calculations are a picture in time -- where the budget stands today. With her own assumption, Seidel wants to jump to the future to undermine the nonpartisan calculation. We rate Seidel’s  .
Statement: Thousands of cattle that recently died in Kansas weren't killed by the heat.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 16, 2022
Topics: agriculture;weather;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Scarlett Hagins, a Kansas Livestock Association spokesperson, told the news outlet that cattle started to suffer heat stress as temperatures soared from the high 70s to 108 degrees, humidity spiked and winds calmed. The cows couldn’t acclimate to the sudden change; the overnight temperatures did not enable them the time their bodies needed to cool down. Dr. Nels Lindberg, a veterinarian who works with feedlots in Kansas, told a CBS News affiliate in the state that the cattle deaths are the result of a natural disaster.   "Sometimes the conditions get so extreme, it doesn’t matter how hard producers prepare the environment, the operation, the animals," Lindberg said.   We rate these posts .
Statement: We're setting record job numbers.
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 21, 2020
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a White House briefing
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "We're setting record job numbers." Trump is fixating on one piece of the jobs puzzle, the job gains in May and June, while ignoring the rest of the picture. The gains make up less than 40% of the April losses, the nation’s unemployment rate remains over 11%, and the total number of Americans working now is less than when Trump took office. Trump’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Says Marco Rubio "is the one for an open border.
Speaker: rand paul
About the speaker: Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas. 
Date: December 15, 2015
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: Las Vegas
Fact-check justification: Paul said that Rubio "is the one for an open border." An open border allows people to travel freely or with very few restrictions between two countries. Rubio doesn’t support anything like that. He was one of the authors of a 2013 bill that included billions for border security and more border agents. After that bill died in the House, Rubio has repeatedly said that the border must be secured before the Senate can revisit changing immigration laws. The idea that Rubio supports an open border is  and , so we rate Paul’s statement .
Statement: Videos show President Donald Trump saying "I can't breathe.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 9, 2020
Topics: race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: Facebook videos
Fact-check justification: Video being posted on social media shows Trump saying "I can’t breathe." The video is authentic, but it’s being shared in June 2020 (months after the comments were made), and is being edited in a way that loses the context of Trump’s remarks. Trump was mocking political rivals, not Eric Garner or George Floyd. We rate these posts .
Statement: For our next two years in my state, we will end with a structural surplus of $499 million.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: May 9, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Knapp, too, called the school aid change "a bit of an accounting trick" that seems designed only to inflate the size of the structural surplus. Our rating Walker said a sign of his restoring fiscal responsibility was that "For our next two years in my state, we will end with a structural surplus of $499 million." A reliable, independent source made that estimate, so the figure is solid. Walker, though, makes it sound like a done deal when the budget is still undergoing legislative review. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Goldman Sachs CEO said Congress would "have to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and give huge tax breaks to the wealthy and the large corporations.
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: February 2, 2016
Location: new hampshire
Topics: campaign finance;congress;financial regulation;government regulation
Context: Keene, N.H
Fact-check justification: Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told an audience in Keene that the CEO of Goldman Sachs said that Congress would "have to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and give huge tax breaks to the wealthy and the large corporations." Goldman’s CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, did call for slowing the growth of entitlement spending, which may -- or may not -- legitimately be called a "cut." The CEO also supported lowering corporate taxes, though Sanders leaves out that he also said taxes would likely need to be raised on the wealthiest people to create more revenue. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: Says Joe Biden hasn't admitted he was wrong on the Iraq War, as he did with the Hyde Amendment.
Speaker: seth moulton
About the speaker: Seth Moulton is a representative of Massachusetts’s 6th Congressional District. He has represented the district since 2014. Moulton served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2001 to 2008 and attained the rank of captain. After being discharged from the Iraq War, he received an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School. Moulton previously received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in August.
Date: June 7, 2019
Location: national
Topics: abortion;corrections and updates;iraq
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Moulton said Biden hasn’t admitted he was  on the Iraq War. And for Moulton, that was in stark contrast to Biden’s headline-making reversal on the Hyde Amendment. It is fair to say that Biden never said that it was  to go into Iraq under any circumstances. Rather, he expressed regret for having thought that Bush would wisely use the authority he had been given. We leave it to others to decide if that is sufficient regret. But if Moulton saw that as different from how Biden talked about the Hyde Amendment, we find those differences slight. In both cases, Biden cast his past actions as based on certain expectations or conditions that weren’t met. He had just as many caveats when talking about his shift on the Hyde Amendment as he did about his Iraq War vote. And Biden pointedly never apologized for his past stance on Hyde. Biden never voiced contrition about the vote that cleared the way to war. But overall, we find that while Moulton’s statement is partially accurate, it leaves out important details. That’s our definition of . Editor's Note, June 20, 2019, 1:13 p.m. : This story replaces an earlier version that was initally published at 12:06 p.m. in error. The ruling remains the same and the changes represented here were made for purposes of clarity.
Statement: It's President Biden who is proposing to cut Medicare Advantage.
Speaker: tom cotton
About the speaker: Tom Cotton, a Republican, was elected to the House of Representatives in 2012 from a district in Arkansas.
Date: February 6, 2023
Topics: health care;medicare;health check
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Experts say it’s  to characterize the changes as a "cut" to Medicare Advantage. We rate it . PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report. RELATED: Fact-checking Joe Biden's 2023 State of the Union address
Statement: Welcome 2 Pres Biden's America where inflation is costing households an extra $175 a month.
Speaker: chuck grassley
About the speaker: Chuck Grassley is a Republican senator from Iowa.
Date: October 19, 2021
Topics: economy
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Inflation in President Biden’s America is costing households an extra $175 a month, Sen. Chuck Grassley tweeted to his followers Oct. 19. Inflation is currently at an unusually high level, but the $175 per household figure, which was calculated by a credible economist, is for the median-income household, and the impact on other households could be higher or lower depending on total income earned. There are also a few caveats to note. The current level of inflation is not all traceable to Biden’s policies; some of the federal spending increases blamed for inflation were approved on a bipartisan basis during the pandemic and were signed by Trump. It’s also worth noting that wages have gone up modestly, helping households cope with some, but hardly all, of the increase in prices. The statement is accurate but needs additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: An image in a Chris Abele TV ad depicts "wealthy citizens" who would benefit from a "lake" created by the controversial Estabrook Dam.
Speaker: chris abele
About the speaker: Chris Abele is Milwaukee County Executive, a position he won in an April 2011 special election to finish out the final year of the term of Scott Walker, who was elected governor in November 2010. The election was the first attempt at political office for Abele, a Milwaukee philanthropist and business owner.
The office is nonpartisan, but Abele has indicated he is a Democrat.
Date: March 15, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: environment
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: But the footage was of African migrants streaming over a fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. That  was rated  . Our rating An Abele TV ad uses a lakefront image to criticize Chris Larson for supporting $5 million in Estabrook Dam repairs to benefit "a few wealthy citizens." But the photo used is not the Milwaukee River and the boat pictured would be woefully out of place there. We rate the  that the image represents the area .
Statement: Rhode Island gives undocumented pregnant women health insurance, plus a cash card "with $400 a month on it" and "$250 a month or $275 a month to spend on food.
Speaker: peter palumbo
About the speaker: Peter Palumbo was a Rhode Island state representative whose district included Cranston. He served in the legislature from 1994 until he was defeated for reelection in 2014. Prior to that he was a Cranston City Councilman for five years.
Date: September 9, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: immigration;health care;poverty
Context: an interview on Fox News' "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren"
Fact-check justification: In all, two of the three facts Palumbo offered to Van Susteren were . Worse, he cited as his source an official -- Gary Alexander -- who said he never said any of those specifics, in part because they are not . Palumbo used very exact numbers on national television and he stated them with the kind of confidence that could lead viewers to believe he had done his homework and knew what he was talking about. He didn't and he doesn't, at least in two of three counts. We'll give him a .
Statement: Hillary Clinton has Parkinson's disease.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 5, 2023
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Bardack added that cardiac and cancer screenings came back negative and attested to Clinton’s health and fitness to serve as president.  medical documents were leaked in 2016 with Bardack’s name on them that showed her diagnosing Clinton with dementia. "These documents are  and were not written by me and are not based on any medical facts," Bardack said in a statement at that time. "To reiterate what I said in my previous statement, Secretary Clinton is in excellent health and fit to serve as President of the United States." We rate the  that Clinton has Parkinson’s disease .
Statement: African-Americans are more likely to be arrested by police and sentenced to longer prison terms for doing the same thing that whites do.
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: February 23, 2016
Location: national
Topics: crime
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, "African-Americans are more likely to be arrested by police and sentenced to longer prison terms for doing the same thing that whites do." The research suggests that when you compare what happens to black and whites who are engaging in the same illegal activity and have the same criminal history, African Americans are more likely to be arrested, more likely to face tougher charges, and more likely to receive longer sentences than their caucasian counterparts. We rate the  as .     "African-Americans are more likely to be arrested by police and sentenced to longer prison terms for doing the same thing that whites do."
Statement: Marijuana has a unique impact on the developing brain. It can prime your brain for addiction to other substances.
Speaker: jerome adams
About the speaker: Dr. Jerome Adams is the 20th Surgeon General of the United States. His mission as the “Nation’s Doctor,” is to advance the health of the American people. Dr. Adams’ motto as Surgeon General is “better health through better partnerships.” He is committed to strengthening relationships with all members of the health community, and forging new partnerships with members from the business, faith, education and public safety and national security communities.
Date: August 30, 2019
Topics: health care;public health;health check
Context: remarks at a substance abuse conference
Fact-check justification: Speaking about the risks associated with marijuana, the surgeon general said it "has a unique impact on the developing brain" and "can prime your brain for addiction to other substances." The implications are tricky, and it’s important to note the significant limitations on marijuana research, as well as how it compares to other drugs. It may have its own, unique mechanism of "priming" adult addiction. Still, other substances have similar effects – even if they take a different brain path to get there. And since this idea about marijuana’s priming effect is central to Adams’ broader public health campaign, emphasizing that nicotine and alcohol also could function in this manner matters even more. This statement is partially accurate, but it leaves out important details and context. We rate it .
Statement: For people with insurance, the only impact of the health care law "is that their insurance is stronger, better and more secure than it was before. Full stop. That's it. They don't have to worry about anything else.
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: April 30, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a White House news conference
Fact-check justification: Obama attempted to reassure Americans that for most of them, Obamacare "has already happened." He went on: "And their only impact is that their insurance is stronger, better and more secure than it was before. Full stop. That's it. They don't have to worry about anything else." He glossed over other impacts of the law, including higher taxes and in some cases, higher premiums. Meanwhile, some people who have insurance now will have to deal with changes from their employers, insurers and health care providers. Most people who have large-group coverage through their employers now face little change, experts told us. So for many of those people, Obama was largely correct. We rate his statement .
Statement: Rob Cornilles supports privatizing Medicare.
Speaker: democratic congressional campaign committee
About the speaker: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is responsible for assisting Democratic candidates for the U.S. House.
Date: January 10, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: medicare;message machine 2012
Context: campaign material
Fact-check justification: But that doesn’t mean he wants to privatize Medicare. And his encouraging private competition doesn’t change the fact that Medicare currently has a private option. Those two factors are what we call critical facts that would give a different impression. We rule the statement . Go back to OregonLive to comment .
Statement: If you ask how many times did Ronald Reagan attend a fundraiser when he ran for re-election in 1984, the answer is eight times. If you say how many times did Barack Obama attend a fundraiser in 2012, the answer is 228 times.
Speaker: lawrence lessig
About the speaker: Lawrence Lessig is a professor of Harvard School of Law and founder of the crowd-funded Mayday political action committee, known as the super-Pac to end all super-PACs. He is also the founder of New Hampshire Rebellion, an organization trying to bring campaign finance reform to the fore during the state's Presidential primary. 
Date: January 5, 2015
Location: new hampshire
Topics: campaign finance
Context: an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor
Fact-check justification: Lessig said Reagan attended eight fundraisers in 1984, while Obama attended 228 in the 2012 cycle. We couldn’t replicate his exact numbers, but they jibe with reports by experts and the logic of how the public- and private-financing systems work. There’s certainly little doubt about Lessig’s larger point -- that there’s been a sea change in spending on presidential elections during the past 30 years. On balance, we rate Lessig’s  .
Statement: PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES that manufacture vaccines have IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION!
Speaker: steve west
About the speaker: Steve West is a Republican candidate for Missouri House District 15.
Date: September 27, 2018
Location: missouri
Topics: health care;legal issues;public health
Context: a page on his campaign website
Fact-check justification: West said, "PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES that manufacture vaccines have IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION!" Federal law and a Supreme Court ruling protects pharmaceutical companies from being held liable under civil law for damages due to their vaccines. But West said vaccine-makers are safe from "prosecution," and we found no indication that a vaccine-maker or its employees were shielded from prosecution under the law if they faced a criminal charge. We rate this statement .
Statement: Ninety-five percent of the money used for union-operated worker training centers comes from employers.
Speaker: kurt bauer
About the speaker: Kurt Bauer is president of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, the state's largest business lobby.
Date: February 10, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: labor
Context: a panel discussion
Fact-check justification: That may be  in a technical sense, and on an IRS form, but it’s not that simple. The money in question belongs to the workers -- it’s part of their compensation. And they decide how to allocate it each year. The statement contains some element of  but leaves out important information that would lead to a different impression. In our book, that’s .
Statement: The KKK officially endorses Trump 2020.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 12, 2019
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: An image shared on social media claimed: "The KKK officially endorses Trump 2020." The image is from a March 2019 article on a website that publishes only satire. While Trump was infamously endorsed by a former KKK leader in 2016, we do not find  that the organization has issued a formal endorsement of the president in his run for reelection in 2020.  We rate the  .
Statement: Only 3 percent of voters 18 to 34 don't believe that climate change is really happening.
Speaker: chris murphy
About the speaker: Chris Murphy is a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate from Connecticut. He previously represented a district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Date: January 15, 2014
Location: national
Topics: environment;climate change;polls and public opinion;science
Context: remarks at a news conference
Fact-check justification: Murphy said, "Only 3 percent of voters 18 to 34 don't believe that climate change is really happening." It should be noted that Murphy cited a poll that had been paid for by an environmental group. Still, we couldn’t find any poll with genuinely comparable data that clashed with Murphy’s carefully worded assertion. We rate his statement .