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Statement: The GOP health care proposal would slash more than $135 million in federal funding available to PA schools.
Speaker: bob casey
About the speaker: Bob Casey, a Democrat, is a U.S. Senator representing Pennsylvania.
Date: July 5, 2017
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: health care
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: In a tweet, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat, said: "The GOP health care proposal would slash more than $135 million in federal funding available to PA schools." His office pointed to data that indicated schools in the state received a total of $134.5 million in the 2014-15 fiscal year in Medicaid reimbursements for School Based ACCESS services. First off, $134.5 million is not "more than" $135 million. Beyond that, Casey’s tweet implies all $135 million in Medicaid reimbursements to schools would be cut under the GOP healthcare plan. But there is no provision in the GOP healthcare bill that specifically cuts Medicaid funding to schools. Overall, the CBO estimates Medicaid spending would decrease by about 26 percent by 2026, meaning a statewide cut of $35.1 million to schools might have been a more reasonable estimate. But even that cut wouldn’t be guaranteed under this plan and would occur if states chose to reduce Medicaid reimbursements to school districts because of cuts in funding from the federal government. We rate the  .
Statement: Two years ago motorists in Ferguson, a city of 20,000 people, "received 31,000 citations. That's at least one citation per person plus 10,000 for visitors. The city is still surviving only on traffic tickets; there's virtually no industry there.
Speaker: emanuel cleaver
About the speaker: Emanuel Cleaver II represents Missouri’s Fifth Congressional District and serves on the House Financial Services Committee. Previously he served for 12 years on the city council Kansas City, Mo., and elected mayor in 1991, the first African-American to hold the post.
Date: August 11, 2015
Location: missouri
Topics: city budget;legal issues;race and ethnicity
Context: on 'Up to Date'
Fact-check justification: Cleaver said Ferguson issued "31,000 citations. That's at least one citation per person plus 10,000 for visitors. The city is still surviving only on traffic tickets; there's virtually no industry there." Cleaver was certainly correct in saying that the municipality of Ferguson issued an abnormally high number of citations and depended on that revenue to help fund city government. That's supported by the Department of Justice report, but his number was more than double the correct figure. His comment about the city surviving only off of tickets is largely hyperbole. Ferguson has been receiving about 13 percent of its revenue from fines and public safety, which provides the city with $2.5 million in revenue. That's a lot, but certainly not the only source of income for the city. Cleaver's point that the Ferguson Police Department was raising revenue for the city is correct, but he cites the  numbers and makes a vast generalization about industry in Ferguson. We rate his  .
Statement: Michelle Nunn's own plan says she funded organizations linked to terrorists.
Speaker: david perdue
About the speaker: David Perdue is running in the 2022 Republican primary for governor of Georgia. He was a U.S. Senator from January 2015 to January 2021. He has been the CEO of several businesses and is the cousin of former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue.
Date: September 17, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: elections;terrorism
Context: In a television ad
Fact-check justification: So where does that leave us with an attack that states as fact that Michelle Nunn’s own internal documents says she funded organizations that have terrorist ties? The Perdue ad plainly misconstrues what the Nunn internal memos said and why. PolitiFact Georgia has already ruled that tying Nunn’s nonprofit work to terrorism is off base. The effort to make the connection by incorrectly citing her campaign’s leaked memos verges on the . We rate the  .
Statement: An independent payment advisory board created by the health care reform law "can ration care and deny certain Medicare treatments.
Speaker: pat boone
About the speaker: Pat Boone is the spokesperson for the 60 Plus Association, a conservative political group that focuses on older Americans.
Date: March 11, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: health care;medicare;message machine 2012
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: That’s not at all what Boone croons in the 60 Plus ad. His  that IPAB "can ration care and deny certain Medicare treatments" isn’t just . It’s also . To that we can say "Ain’t That a Shame." On the -O-Meter, the  rates .
Statement: Technically, (Ted Cruz is) not even an American.
Speaker: alan grayson
About the speaker: Alan Grayson was initially elected to Congress in 2008, then defeated for re-election in 2010. He was elected again to Congress from a different district in 2012. He lost the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Florida in 2016.
Date: November 25, 2015
Location: national
Topics: elections;legal issues
Context: an interview on the "Alan Colmes Show" on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Grayson said that Cruz is ineligible to be president because "technically" he’s not American. The suggestion that Cruz isn’t an American is patently . He gained his citizenship through his American mother the moment he was born. Cruz holds a U.S. passport and is a duly elected member of the U.S. Senate. While Grayson alleges that Cruz’s mother had lost her American citizenship while in Canada, the source he cited provided no .  Grayson provided no proof that Cruz’s mother had become a Canadian citizen. Even if she had, under current law and policy she would still be an American. And so, too, would Cruz. We rate this statement .
Statement: Breaking: Democrats introduce bill to put Americans in quarantine camps.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: May 17, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: At the time, there were  claims that the bill allowed strangers to enter someone’s house, test them for COVID-19 and take their family members into quarantine.   "Contact tracing is not a new idea and is regarded by the CDC as a ‘key strategy for preventing further spread of COVID-19,’" Rush said in 2020. "My bill, the COVID-19 TRACE Act, is about appropriately and safely using this time-tested principle to better assist the communities that are the most impacted by the coronavirus — namely the African-American community — through voluntary testing and door-to-door outreach. "  The  that Democrats recently introduced a bill to put Americans in "quarantine camps" is a gross mischaracterization of the 2020 proposal. We rate this post .
Statement: As the number of vaccines administered to children has increased in the United States, so has the autism rate.
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: August 29, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: autism
Context: an image shared on social media from NaturalNews.com
Fact-check justification: A viral meme from NaturalNews.com uses dates, rising numbers in vaccines given to babies, and rising rates of autism to suggest a relationship between vaccines and autism. The meme is inflating the number of vaccines, which stood at 10 in 2008 and 2013, according to the CDC. Meanwhile, the rate of children diagnosed with autism is increasing, though the numbers NaturalNews.com offered are not entirely accurate. The problem with this , however, is putting the two numbers together to lead people to believe that vaccines are causing the increase in autism rates. A pediatrician and specialist in infectious diseases said that any connection between vaccines (with or without thimerosal) and autism has been thoroughly dismissed through more than two dozen peer-reviewed studies. We rate this  .
Statement: It costs $10,000 a year to keep a child in school; it costs $30,000 a year to keep someone in prison.
Speaker: john kitzhaber
About the speaker: John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, was governor of Oregon for two terms, starting in 1995. He was inaugurated in 2011 for an unprecedented third term.
He was elected to the Oregon Legislature in 1978, rising to the position of Senate President. He spearheaded the Oregon Health Plan as a legislator and as governor. Kitzhaber graduated from Dartmouth College and the University of Oregon Medical School (now Oregon Health & Science University). He worked as an emergency room physician in Roseburg from 1974 to 1988.
Date: January 14, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: education;crime;public safety;state budget
Context: State of the State speech
Fact-check justification: Kitzhaber, in his State of the State speech, implored lawmakers to work with him to boost spending for children and families, including more money into classrooms. As part of that initiative, he proposed lowering costs in health care and in prisons, as well as taking a hard look at tax expenditures and public pension reform. He asked lawmakers to keep two numbers in mind: $10,000 to keep a child in school, versus $30,000 to keep an inmate in prison. The average operational cost of educating a child is even lower, on statewide average, further underscoring his point. We rate the statement .
Statement: President Trump and I lost an election in 2020 because of a rigged election.
Speaker: jim marchant
About the speaker: Jim Marchant is the Republican candidate for Secretary of State in Nevada. In 2016, Marchant won the Nevada State Assembly seat representing District 37 in Las Vegas. He ran for Congress in 2020 and lost.
Date: October 8, 2022
Location: nevada
Topics: elections
Context: a rally
Fact-check justification: Marchant said, "President Trump and I lost an election in 2020 because of a rigged election." State and federal officials — including Trump’s own attorney general — rejected Trump’s allegations that there was widespread fraud in a rigged election. Marchant lost his bid for Congress to the Democratic incumbent in 2020. There was no  of widespread fraud in that race, either. Democrats have routinely won races in that county for a decade. We rate this statement ! RELATED : A coalition of ‘stop the steal’ Republicans aims to take control of US elections. QAnon is helping RELATED : How could U.S. voting be affected if election deniers win? RELATED : Trump’s own advisers add to  that election wasn’t stolen RELATED : Nevada Republican misleads about Department of Motor Vehicles registering "illegals" to vote
Statement: CO2 is not a pollutant.
Speaker: suburban virginia republican coalition
About the speaker: The Suburban Virginia Republican Coalition promotes conservative candidates and issues.
Date: April 30, 2022
Location: virginia
Topics: environment;climate change;science
Context: a seminar
Fact-check justification: "‘Pollution’ is a term that is somewhat human-centric," John Reilly, co-director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, wrote in an email. Kevin Trenberth, distinguished scholar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, sent us an email labeling the CO2 claims by Johnson and SUVGOP " rubbish." SUVGOP, in a presentation at a meeting of the state Republican Party, said "CO2 is not a pollutant." The statement contradicts piles of scientific studies showing increasing CO2 levels are contributing to rising temperatures across the globe, the conclusions of almost all climate scientists, a ruling by the Supreme Court and a statement by the Environmental Protection Agency. We rate the  .
Statement: (Assembly Democrats) wanted to raise the gas tax by $2.4 billion. We said no to that....They're down on the ground. They're sweating. They're twitching. It's ugly, 'cause I keep saying no.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: June 14, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: taxes
Context: a video posted on YouTube
Fact-check justification: At a town hall meeting, Christie claimed Assembly Democrats "wanted to raise the gas tax by $2.4 billion. We said no to that." Now Democrats are "down on the ground. They’re sweating. They’re twitching. It’s ugly, ‘cause I keep saying no," Christie added. The governor’s right about there being a Democratic proposal to raise the motor fuels tax by about $2.4 billion, but Assembly Democratic leaders have stopped the bill from moving forward. Since its first introduction in May 2010, the bill has never received additional legislative sponsors or a committee hearing. Since Christie’s  "ignores critical facts that would give a different impression," we rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: The Milwaukee County Board approved a reform package by a 15-3 vote, "meaning Board Supervisors' salaries will be cut by 20 percent" and "the Board's budget will be cut by 50 percent.
Speaker: marina dimitrijevic
About the speaker: Marina Dimitrijevic is the director of the Wisconsin Working Families Party. She's also a Milwaukee County supervisor and previously served as chairwoman of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. Voters elected her to a Milwaukee County supervisor's post in 2004; in 2012, her fellow supervisors elected her to lead the board. She was an unsuccessful candidate in the Aug. 12, 2014 Democratic primary for the 19th District seat in the state Assembly.
Date: April 25, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: county government;states
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Our rating A news release overseen by Dimitrijevic after 15 of 18 supervisors adopted reforms she championed said the "meaning" of the action was that "Supervisors’ salaries will be cut by 20 percent" and "the Board’s budget will be cut by 50 percent." The  accurately conveys the intent of the resolution, but goes too far in leaving the impression the cuts were actually adopted by the board. It leaves out the key fact that the resolutions have no binding effect on their own. On their own they don’t "accomplish" the cuts. We rate this .
Statement: All of Texas is conservative, except a little bit of Austin.
Speaker: sean hannity
About the speaker: Sean Hannity is a conservative political commentator and hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, as well as two television shows on the Fox News Channel. In a 2013 interview Hannity said that he is a “registered Conservative” and ”not a Republican, though people often mistake me for one.” Hannity has authored three books.
Date: August 23, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: polls and public opinion;states
Context: Austin
Fact-check justification: Hannity said: "All of Texas is conservative except a little bit of Austin." If Hannity had solely singled out the state's many rural and suburban counties, he'd have a point. However, the state’s border counties and biggest cities (not just Austin) lean Democratic while the UT poll showed the majority of all voters self-identify as something other than conservative. We find this "all"  .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/302cffe5-cc74-4ce3-a60d-3f143864676d
Statement: Part of this omnibus gun bill that year (was) legalizing machine guns in the state of Missouri.
Speaker: stacey newman
About the speaker: Stacey Newman is a state representative in Missouri.
Date: October 2, 2017
Location: missouri
Topics: guns
Context: a Missourinet article
Fact-check justification: Newman said, Missouri legalized machine guns. There’s some  to that, but also some caveats. In 2011, the Missouri legislature overturned a full ban of automatic weapons. But all that did was make state law comply with federal law. Federal law doesn’t outright ban machine guns, but it does heavily regulate them. Generally, machine guns are hard to acquire. We rate this  .
Statement: Barack Obama was "a trial attorney for ACORN.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: October 10, 2008
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a memo on campaign Web site
Fact-check justification: Obama remained affiliated with the law firm while he served in the state legislature, but news reports say his actual legal work for the firm declined significantly as he focused on his elected office. So if McCain campaign's statement means that Obama represented ACORN, this is . But the statement implies that Obama worked for ACORN as a staff attorney, or in a longer-term relationship.  Yet he really only represented them once.  So we find McCain's statement .
Statement: I can tell you that the enhanced interrogation techniques that have since been banned by this administration — specifically waterboarding — work.
Speaker: todd wilcox
About the speaker: Todd Wilcox is an Orlando businessman who ran for the U.S. Senate in 2016 and then dropped out of the race. He is a former Special Forces commander and combat veteran who worked for the CIA before opening his defense contracting company, Patriot Defense Group.
Date: May 20, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: afghanistan;bush administration;candidate biography;ethics;homeland security;human rights;iraq;foreign policy;public safety;terrorism
Context: a newspaper interview
Fact-check justification: Wilcox said, "I can tell you that the enhanced interrogation techniques that have since been banned by this administration — specifically waterboarding — work." While many top officials defended the CIA’s use of waterboarding in the past, there is no irrefutable  the practice provides results. Experts said there are few historical accounts of success, and even those are suspect. Meanwhile, there’s scientific proof that a technique like waterboarding would affect brain function enough to make any prisoner’s statements unreliable. They may say anything to make the waterboarding stop, and could actually be physically unable to provide any cogent intelligence. Wilcox didn’t provide concrete proof and experts say virtually none exists. We rate the statement . Clarification, June 1, 2016: This article was updated to clarify Rejali's comments on beatings and electric shocks as methods of torture. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/dfca2adc-88da-4cc7-a5bf-916e9be9bfba
Statement: Athletes are collapsing with heart-related issues due to the COVID-19 vaccines
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 16, 2021
Topics: health care;public health;sports;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: A video shows news clips of athletes collapsing to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines cause heart problems in otherwise healthy athletes. The video makes an assumption and offers no proof. Athletes in the video did not all collapse from COVID-19 vaccines, and leading sports cardiologists we reached out to said they haven’t seen athletes collapse after getting vaccinated for COVID-19. We rate this  .
Statement: Say Gov. Tony Evers 'canceled' the sales tax holiday this year
Speaker: wisconsin assembly republicans
About the speaker: Members of the Wisconsin Assembly Republican Caucus
Date: August 27, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Assembly Republicans said Evers "canceled" the 2019 sales tax holiday. You can’t cancel something that was expressly created as a one-time occurrence. Republicans could have introduced a new bill creating another sales tax holiday this year, but they didn’t. And Evers’ comments showing a lack of support for such a measure didn’t come until months after Republicans would have needed to broach the subject. We rate this  .
Statement: Democrats "want virtual immunity for illegal aliens who have created horrible crimes and murder.
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: August 1, 2019
Location: national
Topics: immigration;crime
Context: Cincinnati, Ohio
Fact-check justification: Trump said Democrats "want virtual immunity for illegal aliens who have created horrible crimes and murder."  Democratic policies at the federal, state and local level uniformly deny any protections to immigrants in the country illegally who have committed violent crimes or lesser offenses such as burglary.  The Trump campaign and critics of Democratic policies say they increase the chances that undocumented immigrants will be in the country and commit violence. That is speculative, and is not the same as granting "virtual immunity" to offenders. We rate this  .
Statement: Most tips left at Dunkin' Donuts don't go to employees.
Speaker: christopher blazejewski
About the speaker: Christopher Blazejewski, a lawyer and Providence resident, has been a state representative since 2011.
Date: June 5, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;jobs;workers
Context: a debate on the House floor
Fact-check justification: Blazejewski said " and  information" from Rhode Island store owners led him to support the amendment that exempted such stores. Blazejewski may have gotten  information, but we base our ruling on the accuracy of the statement, not its source. We rate his statement  . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: You have to be a citizen to vote," but with same-day voter registration, "you have places where people just walk in and vote.
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: May 8, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration;elections
Context: an interview on 'Meet the Press'
Fact-check justification: "You have to be a citizen to vote," but with same-day voter registration, "you have places where people just walk in and vote." In states with same-day voter registration, people don’t just walk in and vote. They have to provide the same level of identification as when registering in advance. Experts told us there is no additional risk of noncitizens casting ballots in states with same-day voter registration, nor is there any  that this occurs. We rate Trump’s statement .