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Statement: Ben Carson is running for president to 'eliminate dependency on government.' But he doesn't mention that he grew up in public schools, got public housing and food stamps, got free glasses from a government program, was helped by Affirmative Action, and got Pell Grants for college.
Speaker: occupy democrats
About the speaker: Occupy Democrats, founded in 2012, is an advocacy group created to counterbalance the Republican tea party, and to "give President Obama and other progressive Democrats a Congress that will work with them to grow the economy, create jobs, promote fairness and fight inequality, and get money out of politics!"
Date: May 4, 2015
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;welfare
Context: a Facebook meme
Fact-check justification: A popular liberal Facebook meme aims to hold up Carson’s past reliance on public assistance against him as he calls for eliminating government dependence in high-profile speeches. The meme gets many details of Carson’s biography right, though it also jumps to some conclusions in a few places. More complicated is the comparison between Carson’s past and his plans if elected president. Carson has said he wants to eliminate government dependency, but he also has made clear he intends to maintain programs public safety nets for people who need them. Carson hasn’t elaborated what programs fall into what category, and how those he benefited from would be treated. Overall, the meme is partially accurate but leaves out important details and takes things out of context. We rate it .
Statement: Says "67 percent of marriages now wind up in divorce.
Speaker: stephen sweeney
About the speaker: State Senate President Stephen Sweeney is a Democrat representing Salem County and parts of Gloucester and Cumberland counties.
Date: February 10, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: marriage
Context: an interview on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show”
Fact-check justification: In a radio interview, Sweeney said that 67 percent of marriages end in divorce. We found no data to support Sweeney’s  and his office did not return multiple requests for clarification. The chance of a marriage ending in divorce varies depending on a number of factors, including education and race. But overall, experts told us and reports show the overall probability of marriages now ending in divorce falls between 40 percent and 50 percent. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: No one" claims the report vindicating New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the bridge scandal is "conclusive.
Speaker: rudy giuliani
About the speaker: Rudy Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City. He was born in Brooklyn in 1944 and previously served as a federal prosecutor, as well as an associate attorney general under President Reagan. He graduated from Manhattan College and earned a law degree from New York University Law School. He has been married since 2003 to Judith Nathan and was married twice before. He has two children, Andrew and Caroline. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 30, 2008.
Date: March 30, 2014
Topics: candidate biography;infrastructure;punditfact
Context: comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Giuliani said "no one" called the Mastro report "conclusive." Perhaps no one used those exact words (though the report itself had a pretty strongly worded "conclusion" section). But one of the targets of the investigation, Christie, said it would "stand the test of time" and the main investigator stated bluntly there was "not a shred of " that Christie is to blame. That sounds pretty conclusive to us. The broader point here, of course, is that critics of the report say the investigation is anything but conclusive, as it was ordered by Christie. In that regard, Giuliani was no doubt trying to tamp down any fires. But in doing so he ignored the claims of both Christie and Mastro. Christie and Mastro admit some blind spots exist in the report, but those relate  to understanding why Kelly and Wildstein closed the bridge, and not Christie. We rate Giuliani’s statement .
Statement: Out of the total U.S. military budget, "significantly less than 10 percent of that money is used to fight international terrorism.
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: November 14, 2015
Location: national
Topics: military;terrorism
Context: Iowa
Fact-check justification: Sanders said that the country devotes "significantly less than 10 percent" of its military budget to fight international terrorism. A campaign spokesman told us that Sanders was only counting money spent against ISIS. However, according to the Defense Department budget, it spent a combined total of $60 billion on anti-terrorism operations in Afghanistan and in the battle with ISIS. This amounts to nearly 11 percent of total defense dollars , not significantly less as Sanders said. While you could argue that not all of the money going toward operations in Afghanistan is precisely aimed at counterterrorism, it is a great stretch to say that none of it should be counted. Sanders used an overly restricted definition that also ignores that a hefty amount of counterterrorism spending takes place outside of the Defense Department. We rate his statement .
Statement: YouTube witness makes shocking admission on live TV. CNN pulls plug immediately
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 4, 2018
Location: national
Topics: fake news
Context: a fake news blog post
Fact-check justification: In addition, the clip of the eyewitness appeared on Fox News, not CNN. Just to be complete, we used the real-time television recording service TVEyes to watch CNN’s coverage for the full minute of 1:46 p.m. PT. The network was interviewing an expert named Josh Campbell, and there was no technical interruption, and no break in the video feed. What we have seems to be nothing more than some basic use of photo editing and a completely  headline. This is a fine example of   news.
Statement: Washington politicians "run Social Security like a Ponzi scheme.
Speaker: ron johnson
About the speaker: Ron Johnson is a Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin. A businessman and accountant, Johnson defeated Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in the 2010 election. He is seeking re-election in 2016.
Date: September 15, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: message machine 2010;social security
Context: campaign TV and radio ads
Fact-check justification: It’s all public. In a Ponzi, investors have no clue where their money is going and are told lies by the promoters.    We rate Johnson’s  .    Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: Last year, we borrowed $1.4 trillion -- or 41 cents of every dollar we spent. Over half of this debt is held by foreign investors.
Speaker: george voinovich
About the speaker: George Voinovich, a Republican, was a U.S. Senator from Ohio. He retired at the end of his term in 2010. Prior to that he was governor of Ohio, mayor of Cleveland and served in the Ohio General Assembly.
Date: July 14, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;federal budget
Context: the U.S. Senate
Fact-check justification: That’s not what countries selling to American consumers want, economists say. That doesn’t mean the current level of debt is insignificant, and the subject consumes a great deal of this year’s political debate. The foreign-ownership component leaves a number if "what-ifs" on which people disagree. But we found that Voinovich’s numbers are basically sound, and economists we talked to agreed it’s fine for Voinovich to cite only the publicly held debt for his comparison. We rate Voinovich’s  that half the national debt is held by foreign investors as .
Statement: Canada "does spills into their water to practice in the event that this would happen. That is not allowed in the United States.
Speaker: mary landrieu
About the speaker: Mary Landrieu, a Democrat, served as a U.S. senator from Louisiana from 1997 to 2015.
Date: June 20, 2010
Location: national
Topics: environment;energy;oil spill
Context: comments on 'Meet The Press'
Fact-check justification: The U.S. does have the Ohmsett's testing facility, and MMS has participated in the open-water exercises in Canada and Norway, so Landrieu overstates the situation when she says it is the equivalent to never having a fire drill.    Landrieu is right when she says that Canada practices in open water for oil spills, and that such testing is de facto prohibited here because the EPA has not issued a permit in two decades. Still, the application process does exist. It remains legally possible to ask for permission. So we rate this statement .
Statement: Says the University of South Florida invests in oil companies like BP, tobacco companies, weapons manufacturers and private prisons.
Speaker: usf divest
About the speaker: USF Divest is a coalition of students, faculty, staff, student orgs, and alumni that are in support of divestment from fossil fuels, human rights violations, private prisons, and sweatshops.
 
Date: April 11, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: a video on Facebook
Fact-check justification: USF Divest said the university invests in oil companies like BP, tobacco companies, weapons manufacturers and private prisons. Based on a 2013 list of mutual funds that the foundation invested in, the  holds water. The caveats are that the mutual fund managers directed where the money should be invested, not the foundation directly, and this investment is common and covers most industries represented on the stock market. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it .
Statement: Without Westside MAX, we'd need to add 2.9 lanes to the Sunset Highway.
Speaker: trimet
About the speaker: TriMet is the regional public transit agency.
Date: July 7, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: infrastructure;transportation
Context: a newspaper ad
Fact-check justification: TriMet may have the capacity to carry the equivalent of 2.7 lanes, but that’s not what the ad said. There’s an element of  in the statement. TriMet can show a method by which it translates carrying capacity into highway lanes. TriMet may have the capacity to carry the equivalent of 2.7 lanes, but its trains weren’t carrying anywhere near that many people at the time of the estimate. And with that, we wish commuters good luck and rate the statement .
Statement: We've had 27 (Ebola) outbreaks around the globe and they've never spread outside of the confines of the countries that were initially affected.
Speaker: corey hebert
About the speaker: Corey Hebert is assistant professor of pediatrics at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and is teh chief medical editor for WDSU-TV in New Orleans.
Date: October 20, 2014
Topics: ebola;public health;punditfact
Context: with Chris Hayes"
Fact-check justification: Hebert said there have been 27 outbreaks of of Ebola and in no case did the disease spread to a second country. His number is high. A more accurate figure would be between 16 and 22. However, he is correct in his main point, that past efforts have successfully contained the disease. The combination of an exaggerated number and an accurate assessment of the importance of the public health response leads us to rate this  .
Statement: Legally, it doesn't make any difference" which state district you live in when running for Congress.
Speaker: brian newberry
About the speaker: Brian Newberry of North Smithfield is the House Minority Leader in the Rhode Island General Assembly. He has served in the House since 2009.
Date: October 2, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: elections;legal issues;public service
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: So running for either of Rhode Island's two House seats can be done by any Rhode Island resident. Where you live in the state doesn't make a difference, as Newberry said. 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: About two-thirds of Medicaid beneficiaries are children, but they account for one-third of the program's cost, while one-third are elderly, and they account for two-thirds of the cost.
Speaker: sherrod brown
About the speaker: Sherrod Brown is a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Ohio. He won his first elected office to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1974. He later served as Ohio secretary of state and was elected to Congress in 1992. He first joined the U.S. Senate in 2007.
Date: May 10, 2011
Location: national
Topics: children;federal budget;health care
Context: an interview on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: "That difference -- enrollments vs. cost -- is the key point, and he has that right." In the midst of a television interview, Brown erred in recounting Medicaid’s statistics, oversimplifying figures on both enrollment and costs. In reality, elderly beneficiaries by themselves account for nowhere close to the two-thirds of Medicaid’s costs that Brown suggested. His point that spending on the elderly is disproportionate to their numbers is valid, and he would have been close to accurate if he’d said the "elderly, blind and disabled," as his office said he had intended to. Still, the numbers viewers heard were  , so we rate Brown’s statement .
Statement: White House physician demands Biden's immediate resignation following his 'obvious' cognitive decline.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 30, 2022
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says, "White House physician demands Biden’s immediate resignation following his ‘obvious’ cognitive decline." The post misleads about who has called for Biden’s resignation; it is not the current White House physician. The current physician has said Biden is fit to carry out the duties of his office. The demand came from a former White House physician, who is not Biden’s doctor and who has joined a chorus of Republican voices that try to paint Biden as senile. We rate this  .
Statement: Rep. Adam Putnam was silent when Rush Limbaugh called Sonia Sotomayor a racist.
Speaker: presente.org
About the speaker: Presente Action is an arm of Presente.org, which says its mission is "to advance the interests and promote the political empowerment of Latino communities with the support of our allies."
Date: July 13, 2009
Location: national
Topics: sotomayor nomination;supreme court
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: The phrasing of the ad is very artful, but the thrust of the message is that Putnam was silent when asked about Limbaugh's remarks. That's not the case. Presente.org said there's a difference between saying you disagree with someone's comments and specifically denouncing the person's comments. We don't think that's a meaningful distinction in the context of a 60-second radio ad. We rule Presente.org's statement .
Statement: Ohioans can expect to pay up to 41 percent more for their insurance premiums when Obamacare takes effect next year.
Speaker: mary taylor
About the speaker: Mary Taylor lost the Republican primary for Ohio governor in 2018. She is the lieutenant governor of Ohio, elected in 2008 with Gov. John Kasich. She is the director of the Ohio Department of Insurance and also heads Kasich's “Common Sense Initiative” to reform Ohio’s regulatory policies. Prior to becoming lieutenant governor, she was a auditor of Ohio and a member of the General Assembly.
Date: August 3, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: health care;government regulation
Context: an email
Fact-check justification: But someone hearing Taylor’s  would need to know some important details to put it in full context. While she implies "some Ohioans" rather than all, what her  makes no mention of is that the 41 percent applies to a very small percentage of Ohioans. Nor does it mention that the figure would be impacted by federal subsidies for which a large percentage of those purchasing policies on the insurance exchange could qualify. And, as the expert from Kaiser noted, figuring average premium costs is tricky because some cheaper policies that lower the average price now won’t be available in 2014, while laws requiring certain coverages could push up the 2014 averages. On the -O-Meter, Taylor’s  rates .
Statement: Starting in 2011, "you will be required to pay taxes" on "the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: June 10, 2010
Location: national
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: The e-mail is correct that employers will have to let employees know how much their health insurance costs the employer. But the e-mail's main point -- and the fact that we're checking here -- is that you will be taxed on your health insurance. That is not only , but refuted by its own reference. Assuming the e-mail's author read that Kiplinger entry, we can only conclude that this is a deliberate attempt to upset and mislead voters. This sort of fear mongering rates a .
Statement: There are already more American jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining.
Speaker: sheldon whitehouse
About the speaker: Sheldon Whitehouse is a Democratic U.S. Senator from Rhode Island.
Date: May 27, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: environment;climate change;energy;jobs
Context: a newspaper commentary
Fact-check justification: The most recent data from three objective sources support his . The one source that offered a contrary view, the National Mining Association, cited two-year-old numbers and counted categories such as off-site transportation workers on coal barges and ocean freighters. Because Whitehouse’s statement was specifically about coal-mining jobs, we rule it . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.) (Correction: The original version of this item misspelled the last name of Andrea Luecke, president of The Solar Foundation, and incorrectly reported the name of the Congressional Research Service.)
Statement: What Congress is considering would cut money that vulnerable patients rely on the most. That means seniors, children and Americans who rely on Medicaid would be hurt. … Tell Congress we can end surprise billing without shredding the safety net.
Speaker: physicians for fair coverage
About the speaker: Physicians for Fair Coverage (PFC) is a national coalition formed by large companies — firms such as US Acute Care Solutions, U.S. Anesthesia Partners and US Radiology Specialists — that serve as corporate umbrellas for medical practices. 
Date: July 15, 2019
Topics: health care;public health;health check
Context: a national commercial
Fact-check justification: Physicians for Fair Coverage claims in this commercial that Congress is considering a surprise billing solution that would "cut money that vulnerable patients rely on." This, in itself, is . Neither of the proposed pieces of legislation would cut money to any programs, specifically Medicaid, CHIP or Medicare. There is also scant  that these proposals would trigger emergency room closures. The group claims the consequences of this proposal would ultimately lead to ER closures. But experts say their  is anecdotal at best. This  raises serious health system alarms — reduced access to care, higher premium costs and even shuttered emergency rooms — without logically supporting these concerns.   We rate it as .
Statement: Says Leah Vukmir was "just about the only legislator who stood with the insurance companies" and "voted against oral chemotherapy.
Speaker: tammy baldwin
About the speaker: Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 6, 2012. She represented Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District from January 1999 to January 2013. She served as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from January 1993 to January 1999. She was a Dane County supervisor from 1986 to 1994 and briefly served on the Madison Common Council, filling a vacancy, in 1986.
Date: September 10, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corporations;health care;public health
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Our rating Baldwin says Vukmir was "just about the only legislator who stood with the insurance companies" and "voted against oral chemotherapy." On the main vote on a chemotherapy bill, Vukmir aligned with insurance companies that opposed the bill and was one of two state senators to vote no. That said, Vukmir’s vote wasn’t against oral chemotherapy. It was against stopping insurers from charging patients higher deductibles, copayments or coinsurance for oral chemotherapy than they would pay for traditional chemotherapy. For a statement that is accurate but needs clarification, our rating is .
Statement: Says the state "health secretary says don't go to hospitals or clinics, now the tourism secretary says don't recreate.
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: May 26, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;states;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Tiffany claimed top state officials called on residents not to travel and not to see doctors. While the tourism secretary discouraged folks from traveling to cabins and tourist areas in parts of the state with fewer hospital beds, the department website is focused on safe travel -- not no travel. And when it comes to seeing doctors, the health secretary advocated using virtual visits where possible, but did not suggest residents avoid treatment. We rate the  . window.gciAnalyticsUAID = 'PMJS-TEALIUM-COBRAND';
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