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Statement: We have a president who wanted to throw 32 million people off of the health care they had.
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: February 25, 2019
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a CNN town hall event
Fact-check justification: Sanders said that Trump "wanted to throw 32 million people off of the health care they had." This is based on Trump’s encouraging Senate Republicans to vote for a repeal bill. After three years, the measure would have reduced the ranks of the insured by 27 million, and 32 million after nine years. Those are government estimates of the future, and not people who would immediately lose insurance, as some might understand Sanders’ words. In addition, the 32 million includes some unknown number of people who would choose not to buy insurance soley due to the end of the individual mandate. Plus, Trump also supported measures that would reduce the number of insured people by 23 million and 22 million. This makes it more difficult to tie him to a specific reduction in the number of insured. It is reasonable to say that Trump backed the loss of insurance for tens of milllions of people over time, but not more than that. We rate this  Half .
Statement: Video shows Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas crying after a question from an aide to former President Donald Trump.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 31, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: There are no aides of former President Donald Trump in the video, which instead shows two Republican representatives sharply questioning Mayorkas about his immigration policy record.   The lawmakers featured in the clip are Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., and Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., though others spoke during the hearing. But no one, including these two, said something like, "Do you have the number?"   And Mayorkas didn’t cry.    We rate this post !
Statement: We cut our deficits by more than half.
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: September 1, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: deficit;economy;federal budget
Context: Milwaukee
Fact-check justification: But Obama, it’s fair to say, was speaking of the change during his presidency. And his  dovetails with one PolitiFact National checked in July 2013, rating  Obama’s  that the deficit is falling at the fastest rate in 60 years. Our rating At a union rally on Labor Day, Obama declared "We cut our deficits by more than half." The numbers back up Obama’s :  Thanks to income tax revenues rising and spending on emergency assistance dropping, America’s deficit has fallen by more than 50 percent from its highest point since World War II to a level $733 billion lower. We rate the  .
Statement: The president's health care law raids Medicare by more than $500 billion and creates a Medicare rationing board — a group of 15 unelected bureaucrats — to slow the growth of Medicare spending.
Speaker: scott garrett
About the speaker: Since January 2003, Scott Garrett, a Republican, has represented New Jersey's 5th Congressional District, which includes parts of Bergen, Passaic, Sussex and Warren counties. Prior to joining Congress, Garrett served in the New Jersey Assembly between 1990 and 2002.
Date: July 29, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: an op-ed on NorthJersey.com
Fact-check justification: Garrett said that the "president’s health care law raids Medicare by more than $500 billion and creates a Medicare rationing board — a group of 15 unelected bureaucrats — to slow the growth of Medicare spending." The national health care law does not cut funding for Medicare, though it does decrease projections for future spending growth. Spending on the program will continue to grow, but at a slower pace. The law does create a 15-member board to prevent Medicare spending from exceeding certain growth targets, but the board is specifically forbidden from proposing any plans to ration care. Overall, we rate this statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says Beto O'Rourke said he's grateful that people are burning or desecrating the American flag.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: September 4, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: corrections and updates;legal issues;patriotism
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Cruz said O’Rourke said he’s "grateful" that people are burning or desecrating the American flag. O’Rourke was asked to speak to a Supreme Court ruling that upheld the right to desecrate the flag in nonviolent protest. However, his answer didn’t go there, instead focusing on his support of protests for civil rights and other causes. O'Rourke earlier said he didn't think anyone should burn an American flag. We rate Cruz’s  .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. UPDATE, 11:13 a.m., Sept. 6, 2018 : This story was updated to add a missing word to O'Rourke's reply at the El Paso event and to add a sentence paraphrasing the Cruz campaign's defense of the senator's accuracy. These changes did not affect our rating of the statement.
Statement: In the history department at the University of Texas, out of 50 registered voters, only one is a Republican.
Speaker: robert koons
About the speaker: Robert Koons is a philosophy professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Date: May 18, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: education
Context: the Austin American-Statesman
Fact-check justification: Voting in a Republican or Democratic primary doesn't necessarily mean a person belongs to that party — never mind the bulk of voters (and history professors, our check suggests) who abstain from primaries altogether. Their political affiliations, if any, aren't reflected in voting records. Without polling faculty members individually, no one can say with certitude what they are. If Koons presents compelling  that indeed, as he says, one in 50 registered voters in the department is a Republican, we'll re-plumb this topic. We rate his statement as .
Statement: Worldwide credit card transactions, the credit card fraud rate is 0.04 percent, compared to almost 8 percent, 9 percent, 10 percent of Medicare fraud.
Speaker: peter roskam
About the speaker: Roskam graduated from the University of Illinois before spending his early career in the office of Congressman Henry Hyde. He later earned his J.D. from Kent College of Law. Roskam has represented Chicago's western suburbs in both the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate. He is chief deputy whip and is now serving his fourth term.
Date: June 12, 2013
Location: national
Topics: crime;medicare
Context: an interview with Fox News
Fact-check justification: Roskam said the Medicare fraud rate is 8 to 10 percent. His office pointed us to various documents that analyzed the problem of improper payments, an issue that mixes fraud together with nominally legal activities such as referring patients for more tests than are necessary. This suggested Roskam was using an inflated estimate of fraud. However, a recent study tends, in the worst-case analysis, to support Roskam’s figures. Roskam’s comparison to credit cards overlooks many key differences between the structures of the health care and credit card industries, and it tends to obscure the systematic nature of fraud in health care, whether public or private. But Roskam is right that credit card fraud is a tiny percentage of all transactions. We rate the statement .
Statement: Rick Perry "advocated to liquidate" the state's rainy day fund in 2007.
Speaker: steve ogden
About the speaker: Steve Ogden, initially elected to the Senate in early 1997, went on the chair the budget-drafting Senate Finance Committee. He previously served in the Texas House and U.S. Navy. He did not seek re-election in 2012.
Date: May 4, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: state budget
Context: remarks on the Senate floor
Fact-check justification: Winding up: We found no record that Perry proposed to empty the rainy day fund to pay for rebates in 2007 — he never specified what they would cost — or that the Senate "roundly rejected" such an idea. The record does show that Perry’s rebate proposal got nowhere in the Legislature. It also shows that despite Perry’s avowed distaste for tapping the rainy day fund, he has repeatedly approved state budgets that effectively spent it all. And that was the larger point Ogden and Watson were trying to make in their exchange on the Senate floor. We rate Ogden’s statement .
Statement: AirPods are essentially microwaving your brain.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: August 2, 2022
Topics: public health;technology;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram video alleges that AirPods are "essentially microwaving your brain" by emitting high levels of electromagnetic radiation. But the electromagnetic fields, or EMFs, the devices release as radiofrequency radiation are far below limits set by the government and much less than the cellphones they are used with, experts say. Although some researchers have expressed safety concerns about long-term exposure, there is no scientific  to link the low-level EMFs emitted by cellphones — and, by extension, wireless earpieces like AirPods — to cancer or other health problems in humans.  We rate this  .
Statement: Emails released to the public show Hillary Clinton discussed "the location of Ambassador Stevens, who of course was murdered, in Libya.
Speaker: andrew napolitano
About the speaker: Andrew Napolitano is a Fox News political commentator and legal analyst.
Date: August 5, 2015
Topics: candidate biography;terrorism;punditfact
Context: an interview on Fox's "Hannity"
Fact-check justification: Napolitano said emails released to the public show Clinton discussed "the location of Ambassador Stevens, who of course was murdered, in Libya." To clarify, Stevens was not the ambassador to Libya at the time, and the emails occurred about 18 months before the Benghazi attacks that killed him. Clinton received at least six emails that discussed Stevens’ location in Libya, though the terms are vague -- for example, saying he was in Benghazi at an unidentified hotel. The context of Napolitano’s statement gives the impression that the emails contain information that would have been damaging if released, but it was widely noted in the media at the time that Stevens was in Benghazi, and on at least one occasion, reporters encountered him at the hotel where he was living and working. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details and context, so we rate it .
Statement: Says proposed teacher contract "would layer on more restrictive rules.
Speaker: portland public schools
About the speaker: Portland Public Schools is Oregon's largest school district.
Date: June 5, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: education
Context: an opinion piece
Fact-check justification: And teachers would argue they need the rules to protect their time in the face of growing district mandates. But we're not ruling on that -- PolitiFact doesn't delve into opinions, positions or predictions. We're just ruling on whether the proposed contract creates more restrictive rules for these specific situations. Clearly it does. We rate this statement .