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Statement: Says President Barack Obama promised a "pathway to citizenship" to undocumented immigrants and "didn't deliver jack squat on any of it.
Speaker: reince priebus
About the speaker: Reince Priebus was the first chief of staff to President Donald Trump, replaced by John Kelly in July 2017. Priebus was previously chairman of the Republican National Committee, a post he assumed in 2011. He is also the former chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. He was an unsuccessful Wisconsin state Senate candidate in 2004. He is a Kenosha, Wis., native and lawyer.
Date: June 26, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: immigration;children;families;homeland security
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: And Zepecki cited Obama's executive order. Our rating Priebus said Obama promised a "pathway to citizenship" to immigrants "and he didn't deliver jack squat on any of it." Obama has not delivered the pathway to citizenship, although Priebus does not make it clear that Obama’s effort -- the DREAM Act -- was blocked by Republicans. That makes Priebus’ statement accurate but needing additional information. We rate it .
Statement: A Mars Rover photo captured by NASA shows a doorway, suggesting extraterrestrial life.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 13, 2022
Location: national
Topics: space;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Posts on social media  that NASA released an image that shows a doorway on Mars, suggesting life on the planet. NASA officials and Mars experts did release a photo of a rock formation that, at some angles, looks like a doorway-shaped structure. But NASA dismissed claims that the formation is  of extraterrestrial life and said the opening is an unremarkable, naturally-occurring crevice that matches many others on the planet. We rate these posts .
Statement: As the CEO of HP, Carly Fiorina laid off 30,000 workers.
Speaker: barbara boxer
About the speaker: Barbara Boxer is California's junior senator.
Date: September 15, 2010
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;corporations;message machine 2010;workers
Context: a political ad
Fact-check justification: And it's clear that by October 2005 the merged company employed more workers than the two separate companies had pre-merger (Fiorina had been forced out seven months earlier in February 2005). But some of those jobs may have resulted from acquisitions, and some may have been abroad. A company as large as HP is very dynamic, so it's possible that the initial layoffs resulted in a stronger company that contributed to job growth in the long run. That's good in the macro sense, but it doesn't cancel the fact that 30,000 workers lost their jobs. So we rate the  .
Statement: Roy Moore's accuser arrested and charged with falsification.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: December 8, 2017
Topics: elections;fake news;punditfact
Context: a fake news website
Fact-check justification: The website has a disclaimer on its navigation bar, should any reader care to click on it: "USAMirrorNews.com is a satirical publication that may appear sometimes to be telling the . We assure you that’s not the case. We present fiction as fact and our sources don’t actually exist." Several other  news sites carried this story. It is !
Statement: Says local Texas chambers of commerce were granted exemptions from paying property taxes on their headquarter properties.
Speaker: becky moeller
About the speaker: Becky Moeller, head of the 235,000-member Texas AFL-CIO labor federation since 2007, became the first female statewide elected official  in the group in 2003 by becoming its secretary-treasurer, according to biographical information posted by the group. She announced in 2014 plans to step down in July 2015. Before coming to the Texas AFL-CIO, Moeller was president of the Communications Workers of America Local 6137, the Corpus Christi local representing workers at SBC (now AT&T), the entry says.
Date: February 17, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: congress;drugs;economy;jobs
Context: a press statement
Fact-check justification: "If the Legislature wants to allow the public to start subsidizing non-profit organizations that engage in the political process," the email says, "then alternatively we ask you to adopt an amendment that would include labor union organizations in that subsidy. We don’t think it would be great public policy, but it would create a more level playing field. It would be preferable, though, to oppose" the exemption proposal. "We believe that taxpayers do not want to subsidize chambers of commerce and other politicized organizations through tax subsidies." We rate Moeller’s statement .
Statement: Says Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton "all voted for" a border wall as senators.
Speaker: jeff denham
About the speaker: Jeff Denham is the U.S. Representative for California's 10th congressional district in the state's Central Valley. He is a Republican. 
Date: September 5, 2017
Location: california
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: an interview on NPR
Fact-check justification: Denham recently claimed that Obama, Schumer and Clinton voted for a border wall in 2006. They did vote for the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which authorized building a fence along about 700 miles of the border between the United States and Mexico. Still, the fence they voted for is not as substantial as the wall Trump is proposing. Trump himself called the 2006 fence a "nothing wall." PolitiFact has rated several similar claims , noting they are partially accurate but ignore important context. Denham’s  also gets it about half right, but leaves out key information. 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.
Statement: Houston Texans coming out for the Black National Anthem then going into the locker room for THE REAL NATIONAL ANTHEM is DISGRACEFUL.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 11, 2020
Location: texas
Topics: race and ethnicity;sports;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Texans continued to remain in their locker room until the "Star-Spangled Banner" ended. At that point, the Texans ran onto the field and "both teams came together at the center of the field for what the public address announcer called ‘a moment of silence to support racial equality in our country,’" according to USA Today.   "The Texans had discussed staging a protest during both anthems in an attempt to continue to draw attention to the ongoing problems of police brutality against people of color and systemic oppression," the newspaper said. While this Facebook post is correct that the Texans stayed in their locker room for the national anthem, it’s  about the team’s actions during the song known as the Black national anthem, and it misleads readers into thinking the players pointedly took the field for one song and not the other. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Obama ordered CIA to train ISIS Jihadists
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: February 9, 2020
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: The headline said, "Obama ordered CIA to train ISIS Jihadists." Obama authorized a program in 2013 that trained and armed Syrian opposition forces. The program had its flaws, including that CIA-provided weapons were systematically stolen and sold on the black market, ending up in enemy hands. However, the declassified DIA document contained nothing that suggested the United States or its allies intentionally "facilitated" the rise of ISIS in their efforts to oppose Assad. Further, there was no  the program ever trained known members of ISIS. That was never ordered by Obama. We rate this  .
Statement: With regard to the cost, let me be very clear: HHS has designated the coronavirus test as an essential health benefit. That means, by definition, it's covered in the private health insurance of every American, as well as covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
Speaker: mike pence
About the speaker: Mike Pence is the former vice president of the United States. A Republican, Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence previously served for 12 years as a congressman from Indiana representing the Sixth Congressional District; he was first elected in 2000. During his time in the U.S. House of Represenatives, he served as House Republican Conference chairman and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. Pence was born in Columbus, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from Hanover College and a law degree in 1986 from Indiana University. After accepting Donald Trump's offer to be running mate, Pence ended his 2016 campaign to be re-elected as Indiana governor. 
Date: March 4, 2020
Location: national
Topics: health care;health check;coronavirus
Context: a press briefing
Fact-check justification: Pence said "HHS has designated the coronavirus test as an essential health benefit. That means, by definition, it's covered in the private health insurance of every American, as well as covered by Medicare and Medicaid." There are a number of moving parts to this statement, but it tends to leave out important details. For instance, many private and employer health plans have flexibility about what benefits they cover and what consumers will pay. In addition, coverage does not necessary mean low cost.   Bottom line: Pence's comment is an overstatement. It fails to acknowledge the need for action at the state level and from the private sector, too. For these reasons, we rate this  as .
Statement: A Gallup report recently said that nearly 50 percent of small business owners aren't hiring because of what they call 'regulatory uncertainty.'
Speaker: sher valenzuela
About the speaker: Sher Valenzuela,  a small business owner and professional writer, is the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Delaware in 2012.
Date: August 28, 2012
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;government regulation;regulation;small business
Context: Tampa
Fact-check justification: (It’s a bit short of 50 percent, and it was a survey from nine months ago.) However, this  leaves out some important context. Five other factors ranked higher on a list of eight factors that might be impeding hiring. Essentially, Valenzuela cherry-picked one of the factors to make her point, which suggested that it was the only, or main, reason for the lack of hiring. We rate the statement .
Statement: Wisconsin is "the most -- if not Number 1, number 2 -- gerrymandered state in the country" for state legislative boundaries.
Speaker: dave hansen
About the speaker: Hansen, a Democrat from Green Bay, is a former teacher and truck driver who was elected to the Wisconsin Senate in 2000 and re-elected since. He was recalled in 2011 during the fallout from Republican Gov. Scott Walker's collective-bargaining bill and the subsequent protests, but won the recall election and held onto his seat. Hansen was one of 14 Democrats who fled the state for weeks rather than vote on Walker's union limits bill.
In November 2002, he was elected Senate Assistant Minority Leader by his colleagues. In November 2006, he was elected Senate Assistant Majority Leader. Hansen in 2013 was serving as Senate Assistant Democratic Leader.
Date: March 5, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;legal issues;population;redistricting
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Justin Levitt , a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who maintains a website on redistricting , cautioned that "there are no universally agreed-upon rankings, in part because gerrymandering usually describes an unfair drawing of the lines, and there's no universally agreed-upon sense of what's fair, or what's fair for what purposes." Our rating Hansen says Wisconsin is "the most -- if not Number 1, Number 2 -- gerrymandered state in the country" for state legislative boundaries. A federal court has said maps drawn in 2011 by Wisconsin Republicans were among the most heavily skewed to one party of any plan in the country going back more than 40 years. And, with the caveat that there isn’t a universally accepted definition of gerrymander, two studies put Wisconsin at or near the top. We rate the statement .
Statement: Canada is "allowing children to seek out medically assisted death.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: December 5, 2022
Topics: health care;facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claimed that Canada is "allowing children to seek out medically assisted death." Canada’s current medical assistance in dying law applies only to people 18 and older.  The issue of extending access to "mature minors" is being studied by a joint commission of Parliament, which will present its report in 2023.  We rate the  .
Statement: Says one year later, "the coalition to defeat ISIS has liberated very close to 100 percent of the territory just recently held by these killers in Iraq and Syria.
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: January 30, 2018
Location: national
Topics: terrorism
Context: the 2018 State of the Union address
Fact-check justification: Trump said that after one year, coalition forces had freed almost 100 percent of the territory just recently held by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. According to data from a private defense and security group, the Islamic State controls 93 percent less terrority today than it did at the start of 2015, and 89 percent less since Trump took office. The fight against the Islamic State began two years before Trump became commander in chief, and the radical militant group saw significant territorial losses by the end of 2016. His words link the most recent gains too closely to actions taken during his time in office. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says eight Americans died in a knife attack at a Minnesota mall.
Speaker: tom tancredo
About the speaker: Tom Tancredo is a former congressman from Colorado who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. In 2010, Tancredo ran for governor of Colorado as a member of the Constitution Party and placed second to Democrat and then-Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.
Date: September 19, 2016
Location: colorado
Topics: terrorism;guns
Context: a fundraising email
Fact-check justification: Tancredo's PAC said that "the threat of radical Islam is higher than ever as the nation mourns the death of eight Americans at the hands of a Somalian refugee in Minnesota."   He acknowledged the statement was  and issued a correction. People were injured in the attack, but no one died. We rate the  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/b24a9f25-b836-47f7-a984-374f524f8058
Statement: Teenage births cost Texas taxpayers $1.1 billion in health care, foster care and lost tax revenue in 2010 alone.
Speaker: michael eric dyson
About the speaker: Michael Eric Dyson is a professor of sociology at Georgetown University and an MSNBC political commentator.
Date: July 9, 2014
Topics: abortion;sexuality;punditfact
Context: comments on MSNBC's "Ed Show"
Fact-check justification: In the course of comparing the results of Colorado’s public contraceptives program to Texas’ high teen birth rate and abstinence-only program, Michael Eric Dyson said, "Teenage births cost Texas taxpayers $1.1 billion in health care, foster care and lost tax revenue in 2010 alone." Dyson’s stat comes from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, who experts say is a reliable source. But Dyson misrepresents their data in three minor ways: He gives an incomplete list of the components of that cost; he implies that teenage births cost Texas taxpayers $1.1 billion when, in fact, births in Texas cost all taxpayers $1.1 billion; and he doesn’t mention that the National Campaign’s stat is a conservative estimate on an issue that’s difficult to quantify. Dyson gets the gist of the statistic right, though he was inartful in his phrasing. We rate his  .
Statement: We've added, in the last eight years, $4 trillion of debt to the nation's obligations.
Speaker: rahm emanuel
About the speaker: Rahm Emanuel is the mayor of Chicago. He represented the Chicagoland area as a U.S. congressman prior to joining the White House as the first chief of staff in President Barack Obama’s administration. Emanuel also held various posts in the Clinton Administration from 1993 to 1998, and worked as an investment banker in the private sector.
Date: January 18, 2009
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: a news interview
Fact-check justification: You can check out all these numbers for yourself via the Treasury Department's debt history search application . So what does the -O-Meter say when someone is off by $1 trillion? As we've said with our policy on statistical claims , "to assess the  for a numbers , the biggest factor is the underlying message." So even though he is off by about 20 percent, the fact that the number has been surging lately supports his point that the debt increased greatly under Bush. So we rate his statement .
Statement: In my years in the State Legislature, I have never voted for a tax increase.
Speaker: joseph kyrillos
About the speaker: Joseph Kyrillos, Jr. is a Republican state senator representing part of Monmouth County. The former chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee, Kyrillos is running in the November 2012 general election for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Robert Menendez.
Date: April 17, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: message machine 2012;taxes
Context: a blog post on his campaign website
Fact-check justification: In an April 17 message on his campaign website, Kyrillos offered this biographical note: "In my years in the State Legislature, I have never voted for a tax increase." Kyrillos has voted against certain major tax hikes -- such as increasing sales and income taxes -- but the senator is  to  he "never voted for a tax increase." In December 1997, Kyrillos voted to double the tax rates on cigarettes and tobacco products. More recently, Kyrillos has supported some measures labeled by his own Republican colleagues as "tax increases." We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Some of the wealthiest Americans are African-American now.
Speaker: rush limbaugh
About the speaker: Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy."
Date: April 28, 2014
Topics: wealth;punditfact
Context: comments on his radio show
Fact-check justification: Limbaugh said, "Some of the wealthiest Americans are African-American now." We reached out to Limbaugh with our finding but have not heard back. Of the top 400 wealthiest Americans, exactly one is African-American -- that’s .25 percent. Also, no other African-American is really all that close to breaking into the Top 400. Limbaugh’s  severely distorts reality. We rate it .
Statement: Says Nancy Pelosi said, "If impeachment fails, I will resign immediately.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 20, 2020
Topics: impeachment;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "  Indeed, this story is . In December, another website — "Breaking News" — poached the same satirical story and reposted it without any hint to readers that the information was made-up. We rated that  .   Maga2020 likewise lacks any context indicating this isn’t real news.   We rate this post .
Statement: Says 12 restaurants and food companies are "supporting Trump's re-election.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: August 8, 2019
Topics: campaign finance;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claimed that 12 food companies are supporting Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign. Campaign contribution data show that, while many of their employees and affiliates give money to Republican candidates, none of the companies mentioned have donated to Trump’s re-election effort directly. One company is associated with a PAC that gave to the president in 2016, and one is associated with a PAC that has given to Trump during this election cycle. News stories speak to the companies’ political views and past contributions, but they don’t prove support for Trump. Six companies denied making direct political contributions and/or endorsing presidential candidates. The post is not accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Fifty percent of our students who enter higher education need to take remedial courses because they are not prepared for college-level work.
Speaker: donna howard
About the speaker: Donna Howard is a state representative from Austin.
Date: April 3, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: education;state budget
Context: remarks on the House floor
Fact-check justification: Taking into account all students who enroll in a Texas institution of higher education, nearly 40 percent aren’t prepared for some aspect of college-level work. And if you only look at students who enter higher education directly from high school, that rate drops to 31 percent. We rate Howard’s statement as . Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: President Barack Obama's "initial response when we heard about the Christmas underwear bomber" was to say that "this was the act of an isolated extremist.
Speaker: dick cheney
About the speaker: Dick Cheney served as Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 in the administration of George W. Bush.
Date: February 14, 2010
Location: national
Topics: homeland security;terrorism;this week - abc news
Context: an interview on ABC's This Week
Fact-check justification: Ultimately, Cheney is correct that Obama did use the words "an isolated extremist" in his first statement addressing the Christmas Day bombing attempt. But we think it's a stretch for Cheney to say that the phrase signals  the president initially believed that Abdulmutallab had acted alone. Obama did expressly say that "we do not yet have all the answers," and he reported that an investigation had been launched that would hold accountable "all who were involved." So we find Cheney is right that Obama used those words, but we find he  their significance by failing to take into account the other things Obama said. We find Cheney's statement to be .