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Statement: Federal money for Medicaid expansion "is guaranteed for a few years and then goes away.
Speaker: thomas garrett jr.
About the speaker: Thomas A. Garrett Jr., a Republican, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 5th Congressional District in 2016. He was in Virginia's Senate from 2012 to 2016. He has served as an assistant state attorney general and Commonwealth's attorney for Louisa County.
Garrett was born in Atlanta and is a graduate of Louisa County High School in Virginia. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Richmond.
 
Date: April 2, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: federal budget;medicaid
Context: an op-ed
Fact-check justification: Garrett wrote that the federal money that’s being offered for Medicaid expansion "is guaranteed for a few years, then goes away." His aide says that Garrett simply means the 100 percent federal match is only guaranteed for a few years. And sure, some money will go away as the U.S. match shrinks to 90 percent in 2020 and beyond under the Affordable Care Act. But Garrett does not make that distinction in his sweeping statement, which he repeats a second time in his column. He creates a  impression that Obamacare cuts off all money for Medicaid expansion after states opt to increase their enrollments. We rate his statement .
Statement: The 2020 election results in Pennsylvania "show a statistically impossible pattern" and votes were manufactured for Joe Biden.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 14, 2021
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Philadelphia Inquirer reported June 4 that Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania General Assembly face growing pressure, including from Trump, to audit the election. But the GOP lawmaker who heads a committee that held 10 hearings on the state’s election system said the state House would not authorize such an audit. Trump had a "lead" in the early vote tallies because the counting of mail ballots, per Pennsylvania election rules, took longer than ballots cast at the polls, and it was expected that Biden would make gains through the mail vote. No  of fraud has been established. We rate the post .
Statement: The United States is "about to run out of diesel fuel ... by the Monday of Thanksgiving week.
Speaker: tucker carlson
About the speaker: Tucker Carlson was a Fox News pundit until his departure in April 2023.
Date: October 27, 2022
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks;punditfact;ukraine;russia
Context: a TV segment
Fact-check justification: Carlson claimed that the U.S. is "about to run out of diesel fuel ... by the Monday of Thanksgiving week." He cited data from the Energy Information Administration to back up his , but the agency and a fuel expert said the numbers estimate only how much fuel the country has stored; it doesn’t include fuel produced at refineries or imported into the U.S. We rate this  . PolitiFact contributing writer Becca Schimmel contributed research to this report.
Statement: After the Capitol insurrection, "one of the first people arrested was a leader of antifa.
Speaker: michael van der veen
About the speaker: Michael van der Veen is the founder of the van der Veen, O'Neill, Hartshorn, and Levin law firm in Philadelphia, Pa. He represented former President Donald Trump during the Senate impeachment trial in February 2021.
Date: February 12, 2021
Location: national
Topics: impeachment;jan. 6
Context: a speech at the U.S. Senate
Fact-check justification: Van der Veen said during the Senate impeachment trial that after the Capitol insurrection, "one of the first people arrested was a leader of antifa." That’s not accurate. There is no  that antifa activists were behind the Jan. 6 riot. Sullivan was arrested nine days after the insurrection. He posted #antifa on social media, but he has denied being a part of antifa and an affidavit associated with his arrest did not mention him being a part of the coalition. Many other criminal complaints explicitly tie rioters to right-wing groups that van der Veen did not mention. His  contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Says Secretary of State John Kerry, "when he was a senator, flew to Managua and met with a communist dictator there, Daniel Ortega, and accused the Reagan administration of engaging in terrorism.
Speaker: mitch mcconnell
About the speaker: Mitch McConnell is a U.S. Senator from Kentucky and the Republican minority leader in the U.S. Senate.
Date: March 15, 2015
Location: national
Topics: history;foreign policy;terrorism
Context: an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: McConnell said Secretary of State John Kerry, "when he was a senator, flew to Managua and met with a communist dictator there, Daniel Ortega, and accused the Reagan administration of engaging in terrorism." We aren’t comparing Kerry’s Nicaraguan visit to the recent Republican senators’ letter to Iran’s leadership. But on the facts, McConnell got it  right, with two imperfections on the margins, regarding both the timeline and the exact phrasing of Kerry’s charge against the Reagan administration. The statement is accurate but needs clarification, so we rate it .
Statement: Milwaukee County government employees pay "much more" for their health care than City of Milwaukee or State of Wisconsin employees.
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: November 14, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: county government;health care;workers
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: The precise number is hard to judge. And those people could pay out "much more" if you think hundreds of dollars a year or more is a big deal. But there’s an important detail here that undercuts Dimitrijevic’s : the county’s contribution to workers’ flexible spending accounts. Because of that, some city and county employees ultimately may pay similar amounts when you factor in that taxpayer-funded contribution. We rate Dimitrijevic’s statement .
Statement: For the hour after the (Jan. 14) debate, 'Debra Medina' was the No. 1 search on Google and for the remainder of that night No. 3.
Speaker: debra medina
About the speaker: Debra Medina, a Wharton businesswoman, sought the 2010 GOP nomination for governor.
Date: January 29, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: elections;pop culture
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Perhaps Medina misspoke to the radio reporter or exaggerated her search ranking on Google. Despite our requests, her campaign never produced  to shore up her . Medina enjoyed a spurt of debate-night interest that may have extended through the month. Yet we couldn't find proof her name was the No. 1 or No. 3 search term that evening--and Morris, the Austin expert, said that's surely not so. We rate Medina's statement as .
Statement: Breaking: Michelle Wolf fired -- Comedy Central apologizes to Sarah Sanders.
Speaker: the liberty raise
About the speaker: The Liberty Raise is a website that posts some fake news.
Date: May 2, 2018
Topics: fake news;pop culture;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: Comedy Central spokesman Steve Albani told PolitiFact that Wolf departed The Daily Show with Trevor Noah at the end of 2017. Then she landed her own show on Netflix . The Break by Michelle Wolf on Netflix is scheduled to debut on May 27. A spokesperson for Netflix confirmed for PolitiFact that Wolf’s show will start streaming weekly on that date. We rate the story about Wolf being fired .
Statement: This issue of busing voters in to New Hampshire is widely known by anyone who's worked in New Hampshire politics. It's very real, it's very serious.
Speaker: stephen miller
About the speaker: Stephen Miller was a senior adviser to President Donald Trump. Previously, he worked in the Senate office of Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions, who became Trump's attorney general in 2017. In April 2021, he launched America First Legal, saying it would use "our legal system to defend our society and our families from any unlawful actions by the left."
Date: February 12, 2017
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: A top adviser to Trump said people were bused into New Hampshire as part of an elaborate voting fraud scheme. However, there is no  this occurs, and Republicans and Democrats in New Hampshire say it does not. Trump and his White House have been asked multiple times to provide  but have not. We rate the  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/61821be7-0697-4ead-8dc0-2de40a18053e
Statement: Says Joe Biden planned a winter storm as "warfare, an attack on Texas by altering the jet stream.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 15, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: weather;facebook fact-checks
Context: a text post
Fact-check justification: Again, that’s not what is happening in Texas and many other parts of the country. Cloud seeding has been cited as  for the chemtrails conspiracy theory, which falsely claims the government uses aircraft to spray chemicals in the sky to control the population. We found posts from Biddle in groups dedicated to the conspiracy theory. The post is  and . We rate it !
Statement: Says Barack Obama is the only American president who has not visited the D-Day Monument in Normandy on D-Day.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: May 30, 2014
Location: national
Topics: history;military;veterans
Context: messages on the Internet
Fact-check justification: The chain email said that Barack Obama is the only American president who has not visited the D-Day Monument in Normandy on D-Day. This long-circulating email was always  -- presidents Reagan, Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama himself had indeed visited the monument in Normandy on D-Day -- but it’s especially  now, with Obama scheduled to visit the monument again on D-Day 2014, making him the only president to visit it twice on D-Day. We rate the  .
Statement: The shutdown is projected to result in "$10 billion in costs to the economy per week.
Speaker: debbie wasserman schultz
About the speaker: Debbie Wasserman Schultz became the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 and resigned in July 2016. The Florida Democrat was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 after serving in the state senate. She represents Congressional District 23 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Date: October 1, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: economy;federal budget
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Wasserman Schultz said the shutdown is projected to result in "$10 billion in costs to the economy per week." That number comes from an investment report from Goldman Sachs. We found other estimates from financial firms that were slightly larger and slightly smaller than the $10 billion figure, but they were in the same ballpark. A key point here, though, is that these are estimates. Experts agree that caution and caveats are needed: There is much uncertainty about the economic impact, including the timing and length of the shutdown. For instance, if the shutdown is short and workers get paid back wages, the impact could ultimately be modest. If the shutdown continues for several weeks, the price tag could escalate exponentially. Overall, we rate this statement .
Statement: Due to a flaw in the 1995 Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act numerous oil companies are now drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in federal lands and paying no royalties to the federal government.
Speaker: dennis kucinich
About the speaker: Dennis Kucinich is running in the Democratic primary for governor of Ohio in 2018. Kucinich was elected to Congress in 1996. He previously served as a member of the city council and as mayor in Cleveland, the city where he was born in 1946. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Case Western University. He has been married since 2005 to Elizabeth Harper. He was married twice before and has one child. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 25, 2008.
Date: March 3, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: energy;federal budget;gas prices
Context: a House committee hearing
Fact-check justification: "I do think there’s bipartisan support to still try to fix that," said Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican who chairs the committee. So how does Kucinich’s statement rate on the -O-Meter? Testimony at the hearing from the head of a watchdog group advocating action suggests it is the drilling leases for the Gulf of Mexico that are at fault rather than the law that established the royalty relief. But the congressman was correct that some oil companies pay no royalties, and the GAO report his staff cited suggests that is an issue worth billions of dollars to the federal government. On the -O-Meter, we rate Kucinich’s  as .
Statement: Obama used to be a lawyer for ACORN.
Speaker: karl rove
About the speaker: Karl Rove is a former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush. He has worked as a commentator and political analyst for Fox News.
Date: September 16, 2009
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: He handled o ne case along with two other attorneys. ACORN was one of several plaintiffs. And the U.S. Department of Justice sided with ACORN in the case. We think Rove's comment suggests a deeper legal relationship between Obama and ACORN than actually existed. And so we rule Rove's statement .
Statement: Says Beto O'Rourke "gave the remaining $4.5+ mill from his Senate race to (the Texas Democratic Party) a few months ago, & the Party sent the money back to him on the day of his announcement.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: March 18, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: campaign finance
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: O’Rourke transferred $4.5 million to the state’s Democratic party during the last month of his Senate campaign and party officials said the money was spent immediately to mobilize volunteers and voters. Political parties are not allowed to give more than $5,000 to a political candidate during an election. We rate this  .  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  .
Statement: Ghislaine Maxwell's co-defendants include Beyonce and Kanye West.
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: December 9, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The criminal docket in the case — case number 1:20-cr-003300-AJN —  does not name Beyonce, Kanye West or the other defendants named in the civil case.   The separate, civil case — case number 1:20-cv-07102-LLS — was filed in federal court in August 2020. According to the complaint filed by Texas resident Charlene Latham, among other plaintiffs in the case , "over the course of decades, the defendants established a lucrative but sociopathic, criminal enterprise where defendants engaged in decades of human trafficking, sexual assaults and various abuses." A judge dismissed the case in September 2021 on grounds that it was frivolous, court records show .    We rate claims that Beyonce, Kanye West, and others are co-defendants in Maxwell’s criminal case .
Statement: In many instances, (people's) health care costs are more than their mortgage costs or their rent, which, by the way, is a first in American history.
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: November 1, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy;health care;history;government regulation;regulation
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "In many instances, (people's) health care costs are more than their mortgage costs or their rent, which, by the way, is a first in American history." This is a bit of an apples-and-oranges comparison. He is comparing total health care costs but not total housing costs, looking at only mortgage and rental costs. To further complicate matters, per-person health care costs far more than what most households pay because many get their health insurance subsidized by employers or the government. With those caveats in mind, the federal data show Trump is, on average, . But the candidate fudged it a bit, and given individual circumstances it's certainly possible that some households are, in fact, seeing higher health care bills than what they're paying on their rent and mortgage. So we rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/4549f29a-a2e2-49dd-8fff-34d70628f2be
Statement: The United Nations' "new world order" agenda will create one world government with one world military and the end of national sovereignty.
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: May 9, 2020
Topics: environment;climate change;economy
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The list alludes to a real action plan, Agenda 21, that was created in 1992, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which introduced 17 goals. Those action plans were created to end poverty and inequality, not to create a totalitarian government. They are also nonbinding. Some of the post’s listed goals seem to link to the 17 goals introduced by the U.N., but they exaggerate or manipulate the meaning and proposed outcomes of the action plans.   We rate this statement .
Statement: Traditionally, presidential candidates release their tax returns . . . Mitt Romney still won't.
Speaker: democratic national committee
About the speaker: The Democratic National Committee is the national organization of Democrats.
Date: December 6, 2011
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;message machine 2012;new hampshire 2012;transparency;taxes
Context: a Web video
Fact-check justification: Romney’s camp did not respond to questions about if and when he would release his income tax returns. In response to the question when the Perry camp raised the issue, a Romney spokeswoman said the campaign would revisit the question during the next tax-filing season, presumably in April. Our Ruling Of 34 presidential and vice presidential candidates reviewed above, only seven -- Brown, Buchanan, Huckabee, Forbes, Giuliani, Lugar, Nader -- declined to release personal tax returns. So while most follow the practice, not all do. We rate the DNC’s  .
Statement: We cut unemployment by more than half" in South Bend, Ind.
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: April 7, 2019
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;economy;jobs
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Buttigieg said "we cut unemployment by more than half" in South Bend. On the numbers, he’s right, and observers of South Bend’s fortunes say Buttigieg did things, both tangible and intangible, to improve the city’s economic outlook. That said, it’s worth noting that the decline in unemployment closely tracked declines in Indiana and the United States, suggesting that what he accomplished on unemployment was not unique. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Donald Trump said of women, "And you can tell them to go f--- themselves.
Speaker: priorities usa action
About the speaker: Priorities USA Action is a PAC that is supportive of President Barack Obama.
Date: May 16, 2016
Location: national
Topics: women
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Priorities USA, in an anti-Trump ad, quotes the candidate as saying, "And you can tell them to go (bleep) themselves." It comes after multiple comments critical of women. The super PAC says the sound clip wasn't meant to be taken as a reference to women. That, as Trump might say, is a huuuuuuuge stretch. The ad is all about women. It features seven women and two men, only one of whom has a speaking role. All of the mouthed phrases — except the one in question — clearly attack, criticize or make disturbing references to women. The ad offers no indication that the "f--- themselves" line refers to anything but women. In fact, it refers to businesses that left the United States. The statement in the ad represents a  misrepresentation of what Trump said. We rate it ! https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/600ae970-2bd5-47aa-b74b-c9270aa48e6f
Statement: I said two years ago that the Fannie and Freddie thing was a very serious problem and we had to work on it.
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: September 16, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy;housing;regulation
Context: an interview on CNN's "American Morning"
Fact-check justification: We give McCain some credit for weighing in on problems surrounding Fannie Mae, even though he got involved after a comprehensive government report issued a loud alarm to anyone watching. However, his attempts to depict those efforts as some sort of early warning that could have lessened the current credit crisis just don't wash. All McCain was talking about then was the potential fallout of accounting troubles in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He didn't say anything about a freewheeling climate among creditors that had major financial institutions becoming badly leveraged on bad loans. We rule his  .