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Statement: Says former President Barack Obama "took similar action against Cuban refugees" as President Donald Trump did in his executive order.
Speaker: mario diaz-balart
About the speaker: Mario Diaz-Balart was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002 to represent Florida’s 25th Congressional District, which at the time, covered portions of Miami-Dade County, Collier County, and Monroe County. After the 2012 redistricting cycle, he ran for the newly redrawn 25th Congressional District which includes parts of Miami-Dade, Broward, Collier, and Hendry counties.
Date: January 30, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;terrorism
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Diaz-Balart said that Obama "took similar action against Cuban refugees" as Trump did in his executive order. Experts said that Diaz-Balart is comparing two very different actions. Obama’s rule change ended "wet foot-dry foot" -- a policy that provided special treatment to Cubans who arrived on U.S. shores without a visa. Obama didn’t entirely halt immigration for Cubans; his rule change meant that they had to apply just like people from other countries. Trump’s order is far more broad and temporarily suspended entry for people from seven specific countries, as well as refugees from everywhere. We rate this  .
Statement: There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor.
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 10, 2018
Location: california
Topics: environment;federal budget;fires
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: President Trump claimed in a tweet "there is no reason" for California’s deadly fires other than poor "forest management." Forestry and climate experts say forest management, which includes thinning out forests, setting prescribed burns and clearing brush, is only one factor. But it’s not the only one, and not necessarily the driving force in the state’s recent firestorms. California’s stronger winds, higher temperatures and drier conditions driven by climate change are also making the fires worse. That’s in addition to the fact that more people now live in forested areas, increasing the chances of sparking an inferno. Trump erroneously places the blame on just one factor, while ignoring these other reasons for California’s devastating fires. We rate his oversimplified  .    –  The statement is not accurate. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: McCain has switched to Obama's position on more troops to Afghanistan.
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: July 19, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: an e-mail from Obama spokesman Bill Burton to reporters
Fact-check justification: We are not ruling on McCain's motivation here; the McCain campaign can just as easily argue that McCain has changed position because circumstances have changed. From a political standpoint, it's certainly inconvenient when "conditions on the ground" dictate you dropping your position for your opponent's. Be all that as it may, Obama advocated more troops for Afghanistan about a year ago. McCain only recently embraced the same position. We rule this  is .
Statement: Here in Virginia, we have the opportunity to become the first state on the East Coast to explore for and produce oil and natural gas offshore.
Speaker: bob mcdonnell
About the speaker: Bob McDonnell is the Republican governor of Virginia until January 2014. McDonnell was elected over Democratic state Sen. Creigh Deeds.
McDonnell previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2006 and as state Attorney General from 2006 to 2009.
McDonnell graduated from the University of Nortre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., with a bachelor's degree in 1976. He then served in the U.S. Army on active duty from 1976 to 1981 and in the reserves until 1997, retiring as a lieutenant colenel. He received a master's degree in business adminsitration from Boston University in 1980 and a master's and law degree from Regent University, Virginia Beach, in 1989.
Date: January 27, 2010
Location: national
Topics: energy;states
Context: the Republican response to the State of the Union
Fact-check justification: Indeed, the nearly 3 million acres off the coast of Virginia is the only area in the Atlantic in the federal government's current five-year oil and gas leasing program. It also is the only area currently in the leasing process. It puts Virginia at the head of the class. And it makes McDonnell right. We rate his  .
Statement: We are accepting more legal immigrants than we ever have in the history (of the United States.)
Speaker: rick santorum
About the speaker: Rick Santorum is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
Date: July 13, 2014
Topics: immigration;punditfact
Context: a "Meet the Press" pundit panel
Fact-check justification: Santorum said, "we are accepting more legal immigrants than we ever have in the history" of the country. Over the last 10 years, in raw numbers, the United States has admitted slightly more immigrants into the country compared to any other 10-year period. But when you factor in the new arrivals as a share of the U.S. population, 1905-14 is the leading time period. And when looking just at raw numbers, the United States admitted more immigrants in 1907, 1990 and 1991.  In fact, the 2013 tally -- 990,553 -- would rank 20th all time. We rate the  .
Statement: Colorado saw "increased incidents of emergency room visits by young people" and "increased incidents of driving while under the influence of marijuana" following the legalization of recreational pot.
Speaker: scott jones
About the speaker: Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones is the Republican challenger in California's 7th District Congressional race.
Date: October 18, 2016
Location: california
Topics: public health;transportation;marijuana
Context: a U.S. Congressional campaign debate
Fact-check justification: Scott Jones said Colorado saw "increased incidents of emergency room visits by young people" and "increased incidents of driving while under the influence of marijuana" following the state’s legalization of recreational marijuana. Studies show the state indeed experienced a spike in ER visits by young people related to marijuana. Less clear is how marijuana-related traffic incidents have changed since the state legalized the drug. Studies have limited data and show mixed results. Further complicating the matter, marijuana can remain in a driver’s system days after the effect of the drug has worn off, making it difficult to determine whether the drug was the primary factor in an accident. Jones’ statement on the ER visits is accurate. But there’s not enough convincing data to prove the second portion of his . We rate it .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/55ce730b-0af4-4fe8-b4d0-f3615372dfe9
Statement: As first lady, Clinton would travel to places that were "too small, too poor or too dangerous" for the president.
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: March 17, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: Washington, D.C
Fact-check justification: Rather, her travels tended to emphasize stable allies of the United States, many of which are quite populous. To view our interactive map of Clinton's foreign trips as first lady, click here. When she traveled with President Clinton, her schedule may have been a little more glamorous, with more time spent in France, England and Russia. But her solo itinerary was no tour of tiny, dangerous places. So we find her statement to be .
Statement: In Congress, Ron DeSantis demanded that any new health law eliminate protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
Speaker: andrew gillum
About the speaker: Andrew Gillum won the Florida primary for governor in August 2018 and lost the November election to Ron DeSantis. He is a former mayor of Tallahassee and member of the Tallahassee city commission.
Date: September 26, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: health care
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Gillum's ad said, "In Congress, Ron DeSantis demanded that any new health law eliminate protections for people with pre-existing conditions." We didn’t find an example of DeSantis individually demanding protections for pre-existing conditions be dropped in a new bill. However, he was part of the Freedom Caucus, the conservative wing of the House, that forced changes that weakened protections for pre-existing conditions. "Eliminate" is too strong. In May 2017, DeSantis voted in favor of the Republicans’ American Health Care Act in 2017, an Obamacare replacement bill that would have put pre-existing condition protection in jeopardy for some patients. DeSantis also voted for the Graham-Cassidy bill that said states had to show they intended to keep coverage accessible and affordable in order to get federal aid. But the bill also would have allowed states to let insurance companies charge higher premiums to sicker people. We rate this statement .
Statement: Georgia mosque keeps Hurricane Harvey donations, will send to Syrian refugees instead
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 7, 2017
Location: national
Topics: fake news;islam
Context: a fake news article
Fact-check justification: A self-described entertainment website posted a story that a Georgia mosque was diverting Hurricane Harvey donations to refugees from Syria. Neither the mosque nor the town it supposedly is in exist. This is pure  news. We rate it .
Statement: Senator Grassley hopped off the Finance Committee, where he could be helpful to Iowa and the nation, in favor of the Judiciary Committee
Speaker: mike franken
About the speaker: Mike Franken is a retired U.S. Navy admiral seeking Iowa’s Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in 2022.
Date: May 5, 2022
Location: iowa
Topics: congress
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Franken tried to portray Grassley as leaving a committee that Grassley never left. Even if you consider that Grassley left a leadership position on the finance committee to take a leadership role at the Committee on the Judiciary, Grassley remains a senior member of the finance committee, plus Republican rules prohibited him from having a leadership role on finance.  Franken’s campaign clarified the tweet when asked about it and eventually took it down the morning of May 6. But saying Grassley "hopped off" the Committee on Finance during 24 hours that the tweet existed was   .
Statement: Art Robinson says "Social Security should be ended through attrition.
Speaker: peter defazio
About the speaker: Peter DeFazio is Oregon's U.S. representative in the 4th Congressional District. He was elected to Congress in 1986. He lives in Springfield.
Date: July 30, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: social security
Fact-check justification: Those are issues for voters. We will rule on the accuracy of DeFazio’s  that Robinson wants to end Social Security "by attrition." Robinson has called for an end by attrition and continues to say we should end the current program by attrition, to be replaced by another system, whether it’s private or mixed with a public program. But we think it’s also important to point out that Robinson has consistently called upon the government to honor its obligations to Social Security recipients. We rate DeFazio’s statement : Accurate but needs additional information.
Statement: Says Hitler said Black people are the "true Hebrews.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: December 4, 2022
Topics: race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: "The quote is being used to reinforce the ideology that we see promoted by Black Hebrew Israelites, which, when promoted by certain extremists and antisemitic factions, is attempting to undermine Judaism and Jewish identity. "  An Instagram post claimed Hitler said Black people are the " Hebrews." Experts say the quote is  and there is no  that Hitler said it. The  comes from an antisemitic documentary that pushes the conspiracy theory that Black people, not Jewish people, are the  descendants of Israel.   This  is .
Statement: There is no law that deals specifically with the term 'partial-birth abortion.'
Speaker: xavier becerra
About the speaker: Xavier Becerra is California's attorney general and a Democrat. Previously, he was member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Date: May 12, 2021
Topics: abortion;health care;legal issues;health check
Context: testimony before a House subcommittee
Fact-check justification: Becerra said, "There is no law that deals specifically with the term ‘partial-birth abortion.’" While the term "partial birth abortion" is more of a politically derived label than an official medical term, the legal reality is that Congress passed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in 2003, and the Supreme Court upheld it in 2007. Becerra himself voted against the law when it came up in the House. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Barack Obama didn't keep his promise to have an immigration bill in his first year.
Speaker: jerry patterson
About the speaker: Jerry Patterson, who won election to three terms as state land commissioner starting in 2002, filed to seek the post afresh in the 2018 elections. The former state senator from Pasadena unsuccessfully sought the 2014 Republican nomination for lieutenant governor.
Date: August 9, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: immigration
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Everywhere, people have expressed frustration with a system that seems fundamentally broken." It's worth noting that many Republicans have said they won't consider comprehensive immigration reform until the federal government secures the borders — another promise Obama made as a presidential hopeful that PolitiFact has rated "In the Works," since the administration announced it was beefing up border security. On Aug. 13, Obama signed into law a $600 million bill funding 1,500 new border agents, additional unmanned aerial drones, and new Border Patrol stations on the border. Still, we're now in year two of the Obama presidency, with no comprehensive bill backed by the administration on the horizon. PolitiFact rated the promise Broken, and we rate Patterson's statement as .
Statement: Obamacare premiums "have gone up 160 percent in West Virginia in 4 yrs.
Speaker: patrick morrisey
About the speaker: Patrick Morrisey is the attorney general of West Virginia. Morrisey is running for the West Virginia U.S. Senate seat.
Date: January 6, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: health care
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Morrisey said that Obamacare premiums "have gone up 160 percent in West Virginia in 4 yrs." The source cited by Morrisey’s office offered a figure close to 160 percent, but it used data for 2013 to 2017, which is not the most recent data. Also, it’s important to know that there was a change in the regulatory rules in 2014. However, the actual rise in West Virginia premiums over the most recent four-year period, while not quite as fast as Morrisey said in his Facebook post, has been substantial. We rate the statement .
Statement: Just before Thanksgiving, oil was $54 a barrel, down from $82. "Thank you to Saudi Arabia.
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 21, 2018
Location: national
Topics: energy;foreign policy
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump tweeted that just before Thanksgiving, oil was $54 a barrel, down from $82. He added, "Thank you to Saudi Arabia." The price of oil has dropped in recent weeks, and increased production by Saudi Arabia has played a role. However, oil prices haven’t dropped by as much as Trump said, and several factors other than Saudi Arabia — including increased production by other big suppliers and an expected drop in demand — have played a significant role. We rate the  .
Statement: When you're white ... you don't know what it's like to be poor.
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: March 6, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy;income;race and ethnicity;poverty
Context: Flint, Mich
Fact-check justification: Sanders says that "when you're white ... you don't know what it's like to be poor." On the contrary -- the most recent figures show that nearly 20 million white Americans are experiencing poverty. While that’s smaller as a percentage than it is for other racial and ethnic groups, that’s still a lot of people. In raw numbers, it’s actually more than any other group. We rate his  .
Statement: Because of Obamacare, Medicare is going broke.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: November 10, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: bankruptcy;federal budget;health care;medicare
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Ryan said: "Because of Obamacare, Medicare is going broke." Financially, Medicare isn’t entirely in the clear, given that actuaries project that a key reserve fund will run out of money in 2028. But the Medicare trustees themselves, along with a host of experts, say the Affordable Care Act’s changes to Medicare -- including holding the line on spending and raising taxes -- actually puts Medicare in better shape than before the law was adopted. That’s a long way from making Medicare go broke. We rate Ryan’s statement .
Statement: Every single Petersburg (Va.) school was accredited when I left office.
Speaker: terry mcauliffe
About the speaker: Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, was elected governor of Virginia on Nov. 5, 2013. He received 47.8 percent of the vote in defeating Republican Ken Cuccinelli, who came in at 45.2 percent. Robert Sarvis, a Libertarian, finished a distant third with 6.5 percent.
McAuliffe's inaguration as Virginia's 72nd governor is scheduled on Jan. 11, 2014.
McAuliffe, a wealthy businessman and noted political fundraiser, was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and chairman of Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2008. In 2009, McAuliffe unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Virginia governor.
McAuliffe was born in Syracuse, N.Y., on Feb. 9, 1957. He has a bachelor's degree from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. McAuliffe has lived in Fairfax County for more than 20 years, is married and has five children.
 
Date: May 6, 2021
Location: virginia
Topics: education
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: McAuliffe says, "Every single Petersburg school was accredited when I left office," implying there was a turnaround in the city’s scholastic performance during his time as governor. He’s dead  if you look at the end of his term in January 2018, when none of the city’s public schools was fully accredited by the state based on standardized testing, three were denied accreditation, and three were partially certified. There’s a one-year lag in Virginia’s school accreditation, however, and McAuliffe’s campaign says he was referring to 2019 ratings that reflected Petersburg's academic performance from a year earlier, when McAuliffe left office. It’s a credible argument that McAuliffe should be judged on the 2019 rates, but it’s also highly advantageous to him because standards were eased that year and no Virginia public school was denied accreditation.  Two of Petersburg’s six schools were fully accredited in 2019, while 92% of schools across the state met that ideal. The other four were conditionally accredited, meaning they were performing below standards in at least one area and were required to take corrective actions. They were among the worst-performing 7% of Virginia schools. So there are problems with McAuliffe’s , even when we give him the advantage of using the 2019 ratings. By saying all Petersburg schools were accredited - and deftly avoiding the distinction between fully and conditionally accredited - he creates a  impression of the city’s progress during his term. We rate McAuliffe’s statement .
Statement: The COVID-19 vaccine for children is proving to be "not only ineffective, it's also proving to be dangerous.
Speaker: kari lake
About the speaker: Kari Lake, a former anchor for Fox 10 News in Phoenix, was the Republican nominee for governor of Arizona in 2022. She lost the general election to Katie Hobbs.
Date: October 19, 2022
Location: arizona
Topics: elections;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Lake said COVID-19 vaccines have been proved ineffective and dangerous for children.  At the start of 2022, COVID-19 was the fourth leading cause of death among children 5 to 14. Depending on the virus variant and the study, vaccination has proved to be between 60% to 90% effective in preventing infection. One study found vaccination was 82% effective in preventing hospitalization among children 5 to 11 years old. The vaccine is far less dangerous than the disease. Most vaccine reactions are minor. After 8.7 million doses given to school-aged children, parents reported 100 serious reactions. Half of those were vomiting and fever.  We rate this  .