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Statement: A child born in America today will inherit $1.5 million in debt the moment they're placed in their mother's arms.
Speaker: john mccallum
About the speaker: John McCallum is running for the congressional seat currently held by Jack Kingston, a Republican from Savannah. McCallum once worked as a congressional aide for Newt Gingrich. McCallum was the GOP’s nominee for secretary of state in 1998 but lost that campaign to Cathy Cox.
Date: March 18, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: debt;federal budget
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Right now, there seems to be no viable legislative solution in sight. To sum up, McCallum said a child born today will inherit $1.5 million in federal debt. That’s about 10 times what the current debt is per taxpayer. McCallum’s  is based on educated estimates of future projections that may change. With that caveat, we rate McCallum’s statement .
Statement: When mentioning Villanova's buzzer-beating win in the national championships, Hillary Clinton said: "I love those come-from-behind victories.
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: April 6, 2016
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: sports
Context: a speech to the AFL-CIO Convention
Fact-check justification: Clinton said during a campaign stop at the AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia that she loves "those come-from-behind victories." We do, too. But this wasn’t one of them. Villanova didn’t trail in the last 15:20 of the game. Yes, the Cats made a last-second shot to win. But if they missed, the game would have moved onto overtime. To steal another basketball cliche, this  is a bit of a brick. We rate it .
Statement: Florida's "high school graduation rates continue to increase at the fastest rate in the nation, with Florida leading the nation in the rate of Hispanic graduates.
Speaker: pam stewart
About the speaker: Pam Stewart is a former public school teacher and principal. In 2004, she was named Deputy Chancellor for Educator Quality at the Florida Department of Education. She served in that position until 2009 when she moved to the St. Johns County School District to become Deputy Superintendent for Academic Services. She returned to the department in 2011 as Chancellor of Public Schools. In August 2013, the state Board of Education named her as the interim commissioner after the resignation of Tony Bennett.
Date: August 19, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: education;race and ethnicity
Context: the "Miami Herald"
Fact-check justification: Florida’s interim education commissioner Pam Stewart said "high school graduation rates continue to increase at the fastest rate in the nation, with Florida leading the nation in the rate of Hispanic graduates." That’s  -- under the Diplomas Count measurement for 2000-10. But Stewart omitted a couple of key points: Florida’s graduation rate was incredibly low and among the worst in the country in 2000 and even with the climb upward it remains below the national average. Also, Stewart is relying on the method of calculating graduation rates that puts Florida in the best light. Other methods do not show Florida as earning the top-increase spot and do not put Florida’s Hispanics at No. 1. We rate this  .
Statement: All banks will soon have to turn over all coins to federal government ahead of pivot to using only electronic transactions.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 13, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A Sept. 13 Facebook post claimed without  that all American banks will soon have to turn over all coins to the federal government ahead of transitioning to a universal electronic-only payment protocol. The post appears to be based on out-of-context information about an instant payment program, called FedNow Service, which is in the pilot stages and expected to be more widely available in mid-2023. The program is not mandated and participating banks don’t have to hand over their coins to the federal government. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget "would sell off Wisconsin's state parks.
Speaker: democratic party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin focuses on advancing state Democratic candidates and related issues.
Date: March 4, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: "We are NOT considering selling state parks." Our rating The state Democratic Party of Wisconsin said Walker’s budget "would sell off Wisconsin’s state parks." But that is not included in the budget, and Stepp said during testimony it was not under consideration. At best, what is up for discussion is the potential sale of naming rights as a way to derive extra revenue for the parks. We rate the  .
Statement: The whole green energy agenda involves more than doubling 10 types of mining.
Speaker: alex epstein
About the speaker: Alex Epstein is the founder and president of the Center for Industrial Progress, a for-profit think-tank. 
Date: January 31, 2023
Topics: climate change;facebook fact-checks;punditfact
Context: a Fox Business segment
Fact-check justification: Epstein said the transition to green energy would involve "more than doubling 10 types of mining." Mining experts said Epstein’s comments were roughly accurate, though they were not qualified with a timeline.  The estimates for mineral demands in green energy technology are based on a push to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. That goal requires a dramatic rise in mineral production and varies by the mineral, with some requiring more than three to five times what’s being produced now.  Even without the transition to green energy, mineral production would still need to rise dramatically to meet the demand caused by economic, population and urbanization growth. We rate this  .
Statement: (Jeb) Bush, not the State of Florida, decided which private emails to disclose.
Speaker: american bridge 21st century
About the speaker: American Bridge 21st Century is a Democratic super PAC.
Date: March 4, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: transparency
Context: an online post
Fact-check justification: American Bridge said "Bush, not the State of Florida, decided which private emails to disclose." Bush did self-edit which emails were posted on a website he established in February, but the PAC doesn’t note one important point: State law allows him to do that. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it .
Statement: Taxpayer money will provide iPod Touch devices to high school students in Utah, BlackBerry smart phones to smokers who kick the habit and funding for a study of exotic ants in East Africa.
Speaker: john cornyn
About the speaker: John Cornyn is a U.S. senator from Texas, former Texas attorney general and former justice on the Texas Supreme Court. He earlier served as a Bexar County state district judge.
Date: August 3, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: stimulus
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Cornyn was less accurate when he said that taxpayer money will provide BlackBerrys to smokers who kick the habit. First, the phones are part of a study — they're not a reward for quitting smoking, as Cornyn suggests. Plus, the phones are free, thanks to Sprint, which is trying to gin up business. It's , however, that stimulus money will fund the initial purchase of service plans for the phones. We rate Cornyn's statement as .
Statement: Liberals in County Hall want our community to be a sanctuary county
Speaker: new york republican state committee
About the speaker: The New York Republican State Committee is the state committee for the Republican party in New York.
Date: November 1, 2017
Location: new york
Topics: immigration
Context: a political mailer
Fact-check justification: A mailer from the New York Republican State Committee said "liberals in County Hall want our community to be a sanctuary county." There’s no  that’s . In fact, the resolution the mailer is talking about was blocked by a Republican who controls the Government Affairs Committee. We rate this  !
Statement: California has "the sixth largest economy on planet Earth.
Speaker: kevin de león
About the speaker: Kevin de León is a Democrat from Los Angeles. He is a member of the California Legislature.
Date: July 25, 2016
Location: california
Topics: economy;housing
Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: We rate his  .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.    Share the Facts Widget Embed
Statement: In Bakersfield, where there's a lot of oil drilling going on, there's more solar jobs now in Bakersfield and around that area than there are oil jobs.
Speaker: arnold schwarzenegger
About the speaker: Arnold Schwarzenegger is a Republican and was governor of California from November 2003 to January 2011. 
 
Date: December 1, 2019
Location: california
Topics: environment;climate change;economy;energy;jobs
Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification:   Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently claimed there are more solar jobs than oil jobs in the Bakersfield area.  A spokesperson for Kern County said the area’s solar jobs amount to just 2,500 while the oil and gas industry includes 14,000 positions.  Schwarzenegger’s spokesman told us he meant to say the San Joaquin Valley is seeing more new clean energy jobs than oil jobs. There’s some  for that, but it’s far different from what he said on TV. We rate Schwarzenegger’s  .     –  The statement is not accurate. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: After the shootings of Dallas policemen, "nearly 500 people applied in just 12 days.
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: July 28, 2016
Location: national
Topics: public safety;public service
Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: Clinton said nearly 500 people applied to the Dallas Police Department in 12 days. The Dallas police said 467 people applied between July 8 and July 20. That’s reasonably close to 500. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/c6c11549-459a-454b-8199-21eec8e55166
Statement: Says Katie McGinty "actually agrees with Hillary Clinton and the most liberal wing of the Democrats on everything.
Speaker: pat toomey
About the speaker: Pat Toomey is a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, having won election to his seat in 2010 by defeating Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak. Toomey occupies the seat formerly held by Sen. Arlen Specter, to whom he narrowly lost in the 2004 Republican U.S. Senate primary.
Date: April 27, 2016
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: environment;trade
Context: Pennsylvania
Fact-check justification: Senator Pat Toomey stated that Katie McGinty agrees with Hillary Clinton on everything. After closer inspection, it has become clear that although McGinty and Clinton share similar positions on many issues, there are a couple of significant instances where their opinions differ. Furthermore, many of their shared opinions can be attributed to the similarities in their intended audiences. McGinty and Clinton have expressed similar public opinions on many issues, but it wouldn’t be wholly accurate to say that they agree with each other on everything. We rate the  .   An earlier version of this story characterized Katie McGinty's views on fracking as in line with Bernie Sanders. This is . As the article describes, she is pro-fracking, provided taxes and fair regulation are in place. Sanders is decidedly anti-fracking.
Statement: ICE arrests LA mayor for harboring fugitives through sanctuary city.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 13, 2020
Location: california
Topics: immigration
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .)   The mayor of Los Angeles is, of course, not "Joseph Barron." It’s Eric Garcetti , and he wasn’t arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.   It seems this story originated on a self-described satire website , though that version described the arrest of Josiah Barron, "the celebrated mayor of Los Angeles County." We rate this story .
Statement: I know that we've been blocked. People come up to me and they say, 'Sir, I can't get you — I can't follow you. They make it impossible.'
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 11, 2019
Location: national
Topics: technology
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Trump claimed that people have "been blocked" from following him on Twitter. We were able to search for, find and follow the president’s profile in a matter of seconds. The White House did not provide any  for his . We found no  that suggested Twitter made it harder to follow him. A recent purge of  accounts reduced Trump’s Twitter followers, but it also reduced those of former President Barack Obama.   Trump’s  is not accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Says Julie Parrish is "one of Sarah Palin's mama grizzlies.
Speaker: future pac (oregon house democrats)
About the speaker: Future PAC is the campaign committee for Oregon House Democrats.
Date: October 17, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: elections
Context: a campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: So we are left with simply one Fox newscaster calling Parrish a "mama grizzly" in that she’s a conservative mother in politics for the first time. But her connections to Sarah Palin appear to be non-existent. We rate this  Bearly -- oops! -- .    Comment on this item.
Statement: Tells President Barack Obama that he also asked former President George W. Bush about how he felt about Americans hating him.
Speaker: bill o'reilly
About the speaker: Bill O'Reilly hosted The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News until 2017. He formerly worked as a television news reporter and has authored numerous books.
Date: February 6, 2011
Location: national
Topics: bush administration;pundits
Context: an interview with President Barack Obama
Fact-check justification: If you didn't, then you probably wouldn't have gotten here." Technically, O’Reilly asked slightly different questions of each president. To Obama, he asked whether it disturbs him to be hated by "so many" Americans. To Bush, he asked how he felt about being hated by "a lot of" people in the press, and then followed up by asking him more generally if he ever thought about being hated. Still, O’Reilly’s two lines of inquiry are similar enough that we’re giving O’Reilly a .
Statement: The Senate voted this week to allow illegal aliens access to Social Security benefits.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: July 14, 2009
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: Like most chain e-mails, it seems this letter has morphed through a Web-based game of telephone. What started as a specious campaign attack back in 2006 has hung around as a rumor under the new administration. We've been getting this e-mail for six months, and every time, it exclaims that the Senate voted "this week" on such a bill. Unless our senators are trapped in a time warp, debating and passing the same bill every week, such a  is impossible. It's  for this chain e-mail!
Statement: Back in the Great Recession, when millions of  jobs across America hung in the balance, Donald Trump said rescuing the auto industry didn't really matter very much. He said, and I quote again, 'Let it go.' 
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: October 10, 2016
Location: national
Topics: bankruptcy;candidate biography;jobs
Context: Detroit
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, "Back in the Great Recession, when millions of  jobs across America hung in the balance, Donald Trump said rescuing the auto industry didn’t really matter very much. He said, and I quote again, ‘Let it go.’ " Trump is documented as saying just the opposite during the recession. He regularly said the auto industry needed saving amid a low point for manufacturers in December 2008. He said the government should stand behind the auto industry "100 percent." Clinton also takes the "let it go" quote out of context and time. Trump made that comment in 2015, not 2008. And he was making the point that a number of actions could have saved the auto industry, one of which was "let it go" into bankruptcy. We rate Clinton’s statement !
Statement: An investigation of a racist photo "confirmed what I said all along, that I'm not in the picture.
Speaker: ralph northam
About the speaker: Before he was inaugurated as the 73rd Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Ralph Northam served as an Army doctor, pediatric neurologist, business owner, state Senator and Lieutenant Governor.
A native of Virginia’s Eastern Shore, Northam was educated at the Virginia Military Institute.  After graduation, Northam was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He served eight years of active duty and rose to the rank of major.
He attended Eastern Virginia Medical School and then traveled to San Antonio for a pediatric residency, where he met his wife Pamela, a pediatric occupational therapist at the same hospital.  Northam did his residencies at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and served as chief neurological resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital. As an Army doctor, he served in Germany, treating soldiers wounded in Operation Desert Storm.
Date: May 23, 2019
Location: virginia
Topics: history
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: "... We could not conclusively determine the identity of either individual depicted in the photograph," the investigators reported. "The governor himself has made inconsistent public statements in this regard." The report offers scant cover for Northam. We rate his statement .
Statement: Richmond was one of the only cities in the state that did not (increase) their real estate tax to those pre-recession rates.
Speaker: levar stoney
About the speaker: Levar Stoney is a 2016 candidate for mayor of Richmond.
Stoney was appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth in 2014 by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. He resigned the post in April 2016 to run for mayor. Prior to that, he served as executive director of the Virginia Democratic Party and worked in a number of campaigns.
Stoney was born in 1981 in New York and later moved to Yorktown, Va. He graduated from James Madison University in 2004, where he was president of the student government.
 
Date: May 14, 2019
Location: virginia
Topics: city budget;taxes
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Stoney said, "Richmond was one of the only cities in the state that did not (increase) their real estate tax to those pre-recession rates." His statement generally holds up. There are 38 Virginia cities. Richmond among only five that has a lower rate in the first half of 2019 than it did in 2006 - the last full year before the Great Recession. The Richmond rate was $1.23 then, and it’s $1.20 now. The recession began in the U.S. in December 2007, and if you start with that year, a slightly different picture emerges. City budgets went into effect in mid 2007 and Richmond’s real estate tax rate was $1.20 - same as it is now, not higher. So by this tougher measurement, Stoney’s  falls a hair short. Only two cities have lower rates now than in mid 2007, and only four - including Richmond -  have held the rate steady. Finally, Stoney’s statement suggests that there was a wholesale move by cities to lower their rates during the recession. In fact, only 13 did. We rate Stoney’s statement .
Statement: When it comes to electability, every single time my party has won the presidency in the last 50 years, it's been with a candidate who was new on the national scene, hadn't spent a lot of time in Washington, and represented a new generation of leadership.
Speaker: pete buttigieg
About the speaker: Pete Buttigieg is the Transportation secretary under President Joe Biden. Buttigieg was elected mayor of South Bend, Ind., in 2011 and was re-elected in 2015. He decided not to seek re-election and his term ended in January 2020. From 2009 to 2017, he served in the U.S. Navy Reserve and was a lieutenant. He received a bachelor’s degree in history and literature from Harvard College and a first-class honors bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Pembroke College as a Rhodes Scholar. He ran for president in the 2020 Democratic primaries.
Date: October 30, 2019
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;history
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Before their election, Carter and Clinton served as governors but not in Congress. Obama was a relatively new U.S. senator who wasn’t widely known nationally before his presidential election. However, political scientists say that while Clinton had not held elected federal office, he was well known in national Democratic circles, having chaired the National Governors Association and the Democratic Leadership Council.    Buttigieg’s statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it .
Statement: Burger King admits to using horse meat in burgers, Whoppers.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: October 7, 2017
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Fact-check justification: Not once in its statement did Burger King say, as this article in Everyday Useful Info states, that it was using horse meat in its burgers and whoppers. The Everyday Useful Info post blows the 2013 horse meat scare out of proportion, framing the incident as an intentional deception on Burger King’s part. The article is similar to other viral claims that have falsely alleged that human meat was found in a McDonald’s factory . We rate this article .