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Statement: (The farm bill) has a provision that would in many ways reduce the deficit.
Speaker: donna brazile
About the speaker: A longtime Democratic political consultant and campaign manager for Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign. Currently a political commentator for CNN and frequent commentator on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Date: December 29, 2013
Topics: agriculture;deficit;punditfact
Context: a discussion on CNN's "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Brazile said the farm bill "has a provision that would in many ways reduce the deficit." Her comment is based on estimates of the House and Senate bills by the Congressional Budget Office, which found both bills to be deficit-reducers in the long term. Over 10 years, the proposal would shrink the deficit by around $20 billion or so -- a paltry sum in the universe of federal spending. But yes, technically a deficit reducer. Brazile is right but her comments might lead someone to more sweeping conclusions. As such, we rate this  .
Statement: Obama "voted against critical resources: no to individual body armor, no to helicopters, no to ammunition, no to aircraft.
Speaker: republican national committee
About the speaker: The Republican National Committee is the national arm of the Republican Party.
Date: July 23, 2008
Location: national
Topics: military
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: In 2006, Obama voted for a war supplemental that passed 77-21. McCain opposed that bill, joining a group of Republicans who felt the legislation contained extraneous and unnecessary spending. In a news report, the Los Angles Times noted the Republicans "risked being labeled as voting against the troops to take a stand against what they considered excessive spending." Although the ad bases its claims on a kernel of  — Obama did vote against the 2007 bill — the RNC gives the impression that Obama opposes body armor, helicopters, ammunition and aircraft generally. The RNC ad is  enough to merit a label of .
Statement: Throughout, we have kept Congress fully informed of our efforts" to create a legal framework on counterterrorism.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: February 12, 2013
Location: national
Topics: legal issues;terrorism
Context: the State of the Union Address
Fact-check justification: The White House has certainly provided some information to Congress and the public about the process of targeting suspected terrorists, and the adversarial relationship between the executive branch almost ensures that not every one of the 535 members of Congress will be satisfied with what the executive branch discloses. Still, we think the magnitude of the complaints, and the fact that they’re bipartisan, suggest that this goes well beyond a small fringe of lawmakers. We particularly find problems with the president’s  that he’s been transparent "throughout" his term and has kept Congress "fully informed." The requests for additional information have been pending for much of the president’s tenure in office, a far cry from being transparent "throughout" his term. And a recurring theme of these requests is not that the administration is providing no information, but that it is holding back on a portion of the information being sought, which is the opposite of keeping Congress "fully informed." We rate Obama’s  .
Statement: For the first time in history, the Democratic Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment).
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: September 28, 2009
Location: national
Topics: social security
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: It would provide a COLA for 2010 equal to the average of the COLA over the past 10 years — roughly 3 percent. Obviously, these bills are coming from both sides of the aisle. If this e-mail had merely gotten some facts , we'd be comfortable rating it . But given that it targets senior citizens on an important pocketbook issue with an  allegation that has no basis in fact, we have to go one more notch and set the meter ablaze. .
Statement: Kendrick Meek was named one of the two most corrupt Democrats in Congress by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Speaker: jeff greene
About the speaker: Jeff Greene, a wealthy businessman from Palm Beach, lost the Democratic primary for Florida governor in August 2018. He campaigned for the U.S. Senate and was defeated in the Democratic primary on Aug. 24, 2010.
Date: July 31, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;ethics;message machine 2010
Context: a campaign mail piece
Fact-check justification: In a new mailer, billionaire Jeff Greene says that "Kendrick Meek was named one of the two most corrupt Democrats in Congress by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington." But the group never labeled Meek one of the two most corrupt Democrats in Congress. It did include Meek on a list of so-called "crooked candidates," along with one other Democrat -- who isn't in Congress. And later, the group added Greene himself to the same list. The series of amateur follies would be amusing if it wasn't in the middle of an important primary election. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says credit rating agencies realize that our instability stems in large part from Oregon's kicker system.
Speaker: brent barton
About the speaker: Brent Barton is an attorney and former state representative.
Date: August 13, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: state budget
Context: a guest column
Fact-check justification: The simplest way to counter that may be to divert the kicker. But a bigger difference, the reports suggest, would be made by adding other taxes -- hello, sales? -- to diversify Oregon’s revenue base. (Sorry, we had to say it.) We rate the  .
Statement: Says that unless the recipient called back about "your tax filings," you "will be taken into custody by the local cops as there are more serious allegations pressed on your name.
Speaker: anonymous caller
About the speaker: An unidentified person responsible for making a hoax phone call.
Date: April 10, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: crime;taxes
Context: an anonymous phone message
Fact-check justification: An automated phone message fielded in Austin said that unless the recipient called back about "your tax filings," you "will be taken into custody by the local cops as there are more serious allegations pressed on your name." Relevant federal, state and local agencies say there’s no legitimacy to such calls, which should be reported to authorities. We rate this  !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: More suicide deaths than coronavirus death past two months.
Speaker: tom brady
About the speaker: Tom Brady is the quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He led the New England Patriots to six Super Bowl titles.
Date: October 27, 2020
Location: national
Topics: coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Brady said that in the past two months, there have been more deaths from suicide than COVID-19. There are no national numbers that back this up. COVID-19 has been killing people at a rate that is at least three times greater than suicide historically. A leading researcher we reached said even in the absence of firm data, it is impossible for the suicide rate to have increased to surpass the COVID-19 death rate. We rate this  .
Statement: Says each year approximately 30,000 people in the United States die as a result of gunfire, and about 80,000 people are wounded.
Speaker: joyce beatty
About the speaker: Democrat Joyce Beatty was elected in 2012 to Ohio's 3rd District, a new congressional district in the Columbus area. She formerly was a state lawmaker.
Date: January 14, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: guns
Context: the House of Representatives
Fact-check justification: If the number of non fatal injuries from BB or pellet guns were added into the mix, the number of injuries from 2011 would exceed Harvard’s estimate of 80,000 yearly wounds from gunfire. According to CDC, 16,451 people in the United States were hurt by pellet guns - about 5.3 incidents per 100,000 people. Beatty accurately represented the statistics printed in Harvard Health Policy Review, even though its tally was more than a decade old. More recent data indicates those numbers haven’t changed much over the years. We rate her statement .
Statement: Less than 1 percent of all the education dollars that we spend are spent on private (school) voucher programs.
Speaker: ted kanavas
About the speaker: Ted Kanavas is a former Republican state senator representing the city of Brookfield, in Waukesha County. Since leaving the Legislature, he has headed the lobbying arm for the Milwaukee-based lawfirm Michael, Best & Friedrich. He also is a pundit on the WisPolitics.come web show, The Insiders.
Date: June 12, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education
Context: a political talk show
Fact-check justification: Another memo, sent to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, says that during the next decade, public schools would receive more than $94 billion of state and local funds. In this scenario, less than 1 percent would be spent on school voucher programs. But in his statement, Kanavas spoke in the present tense, and made no mention of spending over a future decade. What’s more, none of those budgets have been approved and other factors could increase or reduce the figure. Our rating remains .
Statement: Says it's "absurd" to say there's enough data to establish a link between playing football and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.
Speaker: jerry jones
About the speaker: Jerry Jones has been the owner of the Dallas Cowboys football team since 1989.
Date: March 22, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: health care;science;sports
Context: remarks to reporters at NFL annual meeting
Fact-check justification: Jones said it’s "" to say there’s enough data to establish a link between playing football and CTE. In fact, scientists have reached consensus establishing this link, though research remains to be done on the degree to which football players and others involved in high-contact activities risk CTE. We find Jones’s ""  . !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/a39f3e05-4c74-4bf8-b78f-18dec3a47e56
Statement: Says President Joe Biden fell asleep during a meeting with Israel's prime minister.
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 28, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Starting around the 7:25 mark, Biden can be seen clasping his hands and listening to Bennett. A few seconds later, his chin tilts downward and he appears as he does in the image that’s spreading online. But his fingers are moving, and it’s obvious that he’s awake. And as soon as Bennett finishes talking, Biden begins to speak.   We rate claims that he was sleeping .
Statement: The proposed (Virginia) House budget cuts hundreds of millions in funding for public education…
Speaker: democratic party of virginia
About the speaker: The state Democratic Party.
Date: April 4, 2022
Location: virginia
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Instead, it compared the $17.2 billion that former Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam recommended spending on education over the next two years to the $16.95 billion the House has approved. The House sliced $250 million from Northam’s proposal. If Democrats had said that, they’d have been correct. But it is  to suggest that the House budget would cut Virginia’s actual spending on education. We rate the Democratic Party’s statement .
Statement: Says you can monitor yourself for COVID-19 with a breath test.
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: March 10, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "The only way to test for COVID-19 right now is via laboratory testing." Loren Rauch, an ER doctor in Los Angeles, told Mother Jones that a breath test can check "if you are anxious or have respiratory compromise," but not COVID-19. Robert Legar Atmar, an infectious disease specialist at Baylor College of Medicine, told the Associated Press that such a breath test could be helpful in identifying whether someone has a "more serious lung disease." But, he said, it won’t identify people who are infected and have mild to no symptoms.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Says "The idea of one casino per tribe is a false one.
Speaker: ken tanner
About the speaker: Ken Tanner is Tribal Chief of the Coquille Indian Tribe in Oregon.
Date: April 24, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: gambling
Context: a radio news interview
Fact-check justification: In the eyes of Coquille leaders, the policy does not apply because they did not agree to it. But a policy does exist, in the governor’s stated words and in the compacts of other tribes in Oregon. The Warm Springs closed one casino in order to open another. The Cow Creek believe it to be an agreement made by the tribes. The statement is  -- partially accurate but missing important details.
Statement: Says George Soros's son is married to Adam Schiff's sister.
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: October 7, 2019
Topics: families;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Adam Schiff was born to Edward and Sherrill Schiff in Framingham, Mass., according to this 2017 U.S. News & World report article . The Jewish Journal reported that year that Schiff was the youngest of two sons born to the couple. Claims about Schiff’s connection to Soros have been swirling since at least early last year. Back then, the congressman told FactCheck.org that he has just one sibling — his brother — and has no known family relationship to Melissa Schiff.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: FBI Uniform Crime Report for 2016 shows more than four times as many people were stabbed to death than were killed with rifles of any kind.
Speaker: nick schroer
About the speaker: Nick Schroer is a Republican state representative in Missouri.
Date: October 17, 2017
Location: missouri
Topics: crime;guns
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Schroer said that more than four times as many people were stabbed to death than were shot and killed by rifles in 2016. Schroer is cherry-picking data by comparing all people who were stabbed to death versus a small percentage of those that were shot to death. In 2016, 73 percent of U.S. murders were committed with firearms, but while 10.6 percent were committed with some type of knife or cutting instrument, just 2.5 percent were committed using rifles. Because the statement is correct according to the data but key context to the entirety of firearm usage is missing, we rate this  .
Statement: There was tremendous cheating in New York
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: September 1, 2020
Location: new york
Topics: elections
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: There were documented problems with eligible voters being improperly purged from the New York City Board of Elections’ voting lists during the 2016 primary.  But in the interview, Trump talked about how he won the popular vote "in a  sense," and made claims about "tremendous cheating" in New York and California. The popular vote he is talking about refers to the general election, not the primary. There is no  of cheating in the 2016 general election.  Trump made a  .  We rate his statement .
Statement: Says the Republican plan to replace Obamacare, "absolutely does not eliminate protections for pre-existing conditions.
Speaker: robert pittenger
About the speaker: Robert Pittenger is a Republican who has represented North Carolina's 9th congressional district since 2013.
Date: May 2, 2017
Location: north carolina
Topics: families;health care;public health;regulation;states
Context: a written statement
Fact-check justification: Pittenger said that the Republican AHCA health care plan "does not eliminate protections for pre-existing conditions." While insurers technically would still be required to offer coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, the AHCA would weaken protections for those people. Insurers would be able to charge people significantly more if they had a pre-existing condition like heart disease, cancer, diabetes or arthritis – possibly requiring people to pay thousands of dollars extra every year to remain insured. We rate this  .
Statement: Neighbors of the San Bernardino shooters "knew that they were talking about trying to take our country and attack it.
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: January 28, 2016
Location: national
Topics: terrorism
Context: Des Moines, Iowa
Fact-check justification: Christie said that neighbors of the San Bernardino shooters knew that they were talking about attacking the country. The most that was reported is that a neighbor of a neighbor of one of the shooter’s mother said there was suspicious activity. There was no mention that a neighbor of the shooters themselves was suspicious, much less that a neighbor thought an attack was being planned. Christie jumbled the details in the news. We rate this statement .
Statement: The youth suicide rate has increased exponentially alongside trans affirmation. Trans affirmation causes the suicide rate, not the other way around.
Speaker: matt walsh
About the speaker: Matt Walsh is a conservative columnist for The Daily Wire and host of the podcast "The Matt Walsh Show."
Date: February 8, 2023
Location: tennessee
Topics: corrections and updates;lgbtq;public health
Context: a Tennessee State House Committee Hearing
Fact-check justification: Walsh told Tennessee lawmakers, "The youth suicide rate has increased exponentially alongside trans affirmation. Trans affirmation causes the suicide rate, not the other way around." The statement contains an element of  because suicide rates have risen among all U.S. youth. But the statement also ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, because experts say there is no  that increases in suicide and gender-affirming care are related. Experts have been unable to isolate the cause of rising suicide rates, but say the reasons are likely a confluence of factors, not one issue affecting a tiny percentage of the population. Numerous studies show that gender-affirming care and generally supportive environments improve mental health outcomes among transgender youth.  We rate Walsh’s  .  Correction, March 9, 2023:  Jenifer McGuire is a professor at the University of Minnesota. An earlier version of this fact-check misstated her title.
Statement: Says Michelle Obama "said she was never proud of her country til they elected her husband POTUS.
Speaker: david a. clarke jr.
About the speaker: David A. Clarke Jr. served as Milwaukee County sheriff from 2002 to 2017.
Date: February 17, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;patriotism
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The sheriff’s office spokeswoman told us the sheriff said: "Go suck an egg" and that when he does provide us  of his claims, PolitiFact Wisconsin "still finds a way to contort a way to say ." Our rating Clarke says Obama "said she was never proud of her country til they elected her husband POTUS." He provided us and we could find no  of such a statement. What Obama said -- nine months before her husband was elected president -- was that for the first time in her adult life, she was proud of her country not just because Barack Obama had done well in pursuing the presidential nomination, but also "because I think people are hungry for change." We rate Clarke’s statement .
Statement: Joe Biden wants to end school choice.
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 14, 2020
Location: national
Topics: education
Context: the Rose Garden
Fact-check justification: Trump said that Biden wants to end school choice. Biden wants to end voucher programs that use public money to pay for private school tuition. He also opposes for-profit and low-performing charter schools. But he supports good charter schools and allowing students to pick among public schools. Those also qualify as school choice options. Trump’s sweeping accusation goes too far. We rate this .
Statement: Says Clackamas County Measure 3-401 "will hurt our county, cripple economic growth, and increase our taxes with excessive special elections.
Speaker: clackamas county democrats
About the speaker: Clackamas County Democrats.
Date: June 22, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: county budget;county government;elections;taxes
Context: a campaign press release
Fact-check justification: So much for precision in language, or even giving voters accurate information. Approving Measure 3-401 will not increase taxes. Elections cost taxpayer money, but the election may have been held anyway. Taxes in Clackamas County will go up, but for reasons outside the frequency of elections. We rule the statement .