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Statement: We've brought in more than $81 billion in economic investment, more than four times any previous administration.
Speaker: ralph northam
About the speaker: Before he was inaugurated as the 73rd Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Ralph Northam served as an Army doctor, pediatric neurologist, business owner, state Senator and Lieutenant Governor.
A native of Virginia’s Eastern Shore, Northam was educated at the Virginia Military Institute.  After graduation, Northam was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He served eight years of active duty and rose to the rank of major.
He attended Eastern Virginia Medical School and then traveled to San Antonio for a pediatric residency, where he met his wife Pamela, a pediatric occupational therapist at the same hospital.  Northam did his residencies at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and served as chief neurological resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital. As an Army doctor, he served in Germany, treating soldiers wounded in Operation Desert Storm.
Date: January 12, 2022
Location: virginia
Topics: economy
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Northam said, "We’ve brought in more than $81 billion in economic investment, more than four times any previous administration." Northam accurately cites figures compiled by the state’s economic development authority. The numbers reflect the total estimated investment of businesses that each of the last seven governors announced were moving to Virginia or expanding their existing facilities in the state. While the numbers indicate strong economic development during Northam’s term, they come with caveats. Some of the projects governors announce never get off the ground, and others fail to meet expectations. So the actual investment under Northam is likely to shrink from its announced total. Also, many projects transcend gubernatorial terms. A governor who started negotiations with a company may not be the one who announces a deal. We rate Northam’s  .
Statement: Under Pat McCrory, (North Carolina) has fallen to 41st in teacher pay.
Speaker: roy cooper
About the speaker: Roy Cooper, a Democrat, is the governor of North Carolina. Previously he was the attorney general, a state senator and a state representative.
Date: August 29, 2016
Location: north carolina
Topics: candidate biography;education;state budget;states
Context: posts on social media
Fact-check justification: Cooper said North Carolina "has fallen to 41st in teacher pay" under Gov. McCrory. In fact, the opposite is . North Carolina has risen to 41st in teacher pay since McCrory entered office. It’s  an increase, from 43 to 41, but it’s still an increase. Since the  contains a snippet of  – that North Carolina is one of the country’s lowest-paying states for teachers – but uses that to paint a  picture, we rate this  .
Statement: Sen. Mark Begich cast the deciding vote in favor of President Obama's authority to issue executive amnesty to illegal aliens.
Speaker: dan sullivan
About the speaker: Dan Sullivan is a Republican senator from Alaska.
Date: September 19, 2014
Location: national
Topics: immigration;message machine 2014;voting record
Context: an email to supporters
Fact-check justification: Sullivan said Begich "cast the deciding vote in favor of President Obama’s authority to issue executive amnesty to illegal aliens." Begich never voted on this question. In reality, Begich voted "no" on a procedural measure, along with 49 other senators. As a result, a amendment regarding immigration policy did not come up for a vote. It’s debatable whether this amendment really addressed "executive amnesty," and it had little chance of passing even if it hadn’t been blocked. Begich’s vote did not increase Obama’s authority, as Sullivan’s statement makes it seem. Rather, it maintained the status quo. We rate this  .
Statement: I earned more votes in the state of Wisconsin than Donald Trump did in New York.
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: April 25, 2016
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: Borden, Ind
Fact-check justification: Cruz said, "I earned more votes in the state of Wisconsin than Donald Trump did in New York." This is certainly a glass-half-full way of looking at the results, but factually, Cruz is on target. We rate his statement .
Statement: [T]his breed (of pit bulls) is most often associated with aggressive behavior.
Speaker: elaine boyer
About the speaker: Elaine Boyer, a Republican, is a DeKalb County commissioner
Date: July 20, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: animals
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Some breeds, however, have been shown to be more aggressive in each report. However, the widely held perception is that they are dangerous, which was Boyer’s over-arching point. An Associated Press poll done in October found of the dog owners who would support breed bans, 85 percent would outlaw pit bulls. Her statement has merit, but could have used additional context about the breed, which would have put it in a slightly different light. We rate her  .
Statement: New York City could pay to house its homeless population in hotel rooms currently sitting vacant, but Mayor Bill de Blasio "has absolutely to this point refused to do that.
Speaker: coalition for the homeless
About the speaker: The Coalition for the Homeless is a direct service organization helping homeless men, women, and children. It was founded in 1981 and is based in New York City.
Date: April 8, 2020
Location: new york
Topics: homeless;public health;coronavirus
Context: a newspaper interview
Fact-check justification: Routhier said, "We could open up tens of thousands of hotel rooms and offer every single person on the subway access to them. The mayor has absolutely to this point refused to do that."  The city already does contract with hotels to house New Yorkers facing emergency homelessness, and the number of homeless individuals the city has moved into hotels has increased since the onset of the pandemic.  However, the number of rooms being used for this purpose is well short of the "tens of thousands" of rooms needed to house all of New York City’s homeless population. The main reason is the high cost. We rate the statement .
Statement: The infant formula shortage was purposely created because Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates invested in artificial breast milk.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 11, 2022
Location: national
Topics: children;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims that the formula shortage was manufactured because Zuckerberg and Gates invested in a company that makes artificial breast milk.  There is no  that an investment in BIOMILQ by a fund Zuckerberg and Gates are involved in has anything to do with the current infant formula shortage.  The shortage unfolded due to a recall by a major U.S. manufacturer of baby food and existing supply chain issues associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. BIOMILQ says it is still three to five years away from getting a product to market.  We rate this .
Statement: The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.''
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: April 21, 2010
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance
Context: an interview with CNBC's John Harwood
Fact-check justification: But Obama was also skilled at raising money from large donors. His statement was, "the vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country." That's not the case. Only 32 percent of his general election money came from people who gave $200 or less. We rate his statement .
Statement: If you want to talk firsts for Bush, this was the first time in American history that a president took us into a war and cut taxes.
Speaker: paul krugman
About the speaker: Paul Krugman is a columnist for the New York Times and professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008. He describes himself as liberal.
Date: November 29, 2009
Location: national
Topics: afghanistan;iraq;foreign policy;military;taxes
Context: ABC's 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos'
Fact-check justification: Krugman has not advocated a tax increase to deal with the war in Afghanistan. And we think Krugman also has some wiggle room on that second point, because he said Bush was the first president who "took us into a war" and cut taxes. Both wars were inherited by Obama. Again, there are many different political and economic realities now than there were when taxes generally rose during wars, but Krugman is still  right. We dock him some points, though, because the Kennedy tax cuts technically came during the Vietnam War and rate the statement .
Statement: There are more pain clinics in Broward County than there are McDonald's in Broward County.
Speaker: dave aronberg
About the speaker: Dave Aronberg is a former state senator from Palm Beach County who campaigned to be Florida Attorney General and was defeated in the Democratic Primary on Aug. 24, 2010. He was elected Palm Beach State Attorney in 2012.
Date: July 26, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: drugs
Context: an editorial board interview
Fact-check justification: The Broward Sheriff's Office puts the number at 144 as of July 28. We found the state health department database too confusing to evaluate, and no one to answer our questions. The best number we could determine for McDonald's locations was 73 -- Aronberg's campaign put it at 78 while the New Times said 71. No matter which number you pick, the number of pain clinics in Broward is dozens higher than the number of McDonald's. We rate this  .
Statement: Barack Obama got more campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "than any other member of Congress, except for the Democratic chairmen of the committee that oversees them.
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 19, 2008
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: Green Bay, Wis
Fact-check justification: That analysis found Fannie and Freddie-related contributors gave $169,000 to John McCain and his related committees, compared with $16,000 to Obama and his related committees. Nevertheless, the center's information does reflect which candidates are getting the most money from Fannie and Freddie employees. There are other ways to parse the campaign finance numbers, but McCain is correct when he says Obama got the second-most money on a list compiled by a respected, nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog. He would have been more accurate if he would have noted that he was talking about Fannie and Freddie employees. We rate his statement .
Statement: A little less than 50 percent of the people in this country depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them.
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: March 6, 2012
Location: national
Topics: children;families;federal budget;medicaid;medicare;social security;veterans
Context: Steubenville, Ohio
Fact-check justification: The percentage of Americans "who depend on some form of federal payment" is indeed "a little less than 50 percent," as Santorum said -- it was 48.5 percent in 2010. If anything, the ongoing rise in usage of food stamps and other federal assistance programs may have pushed this number higher, and adding in tax refunds from the Earned Income Tax Credit or agricultural subsidies could push the number higher still. The number, however, includes every member of a household in which one member receives benefits, and in some households, it would be a stretch to say, as Santorum does, that as a result of that every member will "depend on some form of federal payment." Discounting for that, we rate Santorum’s statement .
Statement: Stacey Abrams "supported the MLB boycott.
Speaker: chris carr
About the speaker: Christopher M. Carr was appointed by Gov. Nathan Deal to serve as Georgia's attorney general on Nov. 1, 2016. On Nov. 6, 2018, Carr was elected to a four-year term as attorney general.
Date: May 22, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: baseball;elections;voter id laws
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Carr said that Abrams "supported the MLB boycott." Both before and after the league’s boycott, Abrams threw cold water on the idea, saying in a Twitter video, "To our friends across the country please do not boycott us." She echoed those comments to the leading newspaper in Atlanta and in an op-ed in USA Today. She also personally lobbied Major League Baseball not to take that step before the boycott was announced. We rate the statement .
Statement: I'm the only Republican who has gotten endorsements in this presidential race from major labor unions...
Speaker: mike huckabee
About the speaker: Mike Huckabee ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former governor of Arkansas; he also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He left hosting a self-titled television show on Fox News in January 2015.
Date: February 6, 2008
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: an interview on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: We searched for major union endorsements of any other Republican candidates and were unable to find one. A spokesperson with the AFL-CIO said the Huckabee endorsements were the only ones they knew of. There are a lot of unusual things about Huckabee, a bass guitar-playing, Chuck Norris-approved preacher. Add Republican and union-endorsed to that list. We find his statement .
Statement: Preventive care does not save the government money.
Speaker: david brooks
About the speaker: David Brooks is a columnist for the New York Times.
Date: August 14, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care;pundits
Context: an interview on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Fact-check justification: "Sweeping statements about the cost-saving potential of prevention ... are overreaching," according to the paper. "Studies have concluded that preventing illness can in some cases save money but in other cases can add to health care costs." And a study conducted by researchers from the American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society concluded that, while interventions to prevent cardiovascular disease would prevent many strokes and deaths, "as they are currently delivered, most of the prevention activities will substantially increase costs." So, the consensus is that, while preventive care will almost certainly save lives, it's a stretch to say that it will save government spending on health care. As a result, we give Brooks a .
Statement: An episode of "The Simpsons" showed Donald Trump in a coffin.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 2, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Most of these episodes are based on things that happened in the '60s, '70s or '80s that we knew about." In his Oct. 2 tweet , Trump said that his wife, Melania Trump, also tested positive for COVID-19. "We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!," Trump said. We rate this  !
Statement: The media was silent that "the Colorado school shooter is a transsexual, Trump-hating, Christian-hating, leftist freak.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 9, 2019
Topics: religion;sexuality;facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed that a Colorado school shooter is a "transsexual, Trump-hating, Christian-hating, leftist freak" and that the media hasn’t reported on those facts. Journalists have reported that one of the STEM school shooters is transgender and that some of the other shooter’s social media posts were critical of Trump and Christians. We rate this post .
Statement: A part-time Congress with half the pay would still make $38,000 a year more than the average American family.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: November 16, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: income
Context: a letter to Nancy Pelosi
Fact-check justification: It does not include any one-person households. As one might expect, the median income of "family households" is larger than that of the broader category ($61,544 vs. $49,445). Had Perry used the family figure in his calculation, his statement in the letter to Pelosi would have had to change a bit: Half of the current congressional salary is still $25,456 (not $38,000) more than what a typical American family makes in a year. Perry errs around the fringes, but his big-picture point holds. We rate Perry’s statement .
Statement: The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan office, did an analysis and said that passing comprehensive immigration reform will reduce the federal deficit by $200 billion over the next decade.
Speaker: david cicilline
About the speaker: David Cicilline was elected to the 1st Congressional District in 2010. Before that, he was mayor of Providence, beginning in January, 2003. A Brown University graduate, he received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
Date: July 21, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: immigration;children;congress;debt;deficit;economy;families;legal issues;workers;taxes
Context: an appearance on WPRI-TV's "Newsmakers" program
Fact-check justification: The CBO estimated that immigration reform would reduce the deficit by $700 billion from 2024 to 2033, but those longer-range projections are less certain. PolitiFact usually doesn't offer rulings on predictions such as the ones in the CBO report. But  we can say that Cicilline is correctly quoting the federal nonpartisan report. We rate the   . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Says Russ Feingold "voted to raise taxes on Social Security benefits for seniors, he even tried to give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants.
Speaker: ron johnson
About the speaker: Ron Johnson is a Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin. A businessman and accountant, Johnson defeated Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in the 2010 election. He is seeking re-election in 2016.
Date: October 10, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: immigration;federal budget;income;social security;taxes
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: Our rating Johnson says Feingold "voted to raise taxes on Social Security benefits for seniors, he even tried to give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants." On a proposal that would have removed a tax increase on Social Security benefits from the 1994 federal budget, Feingold voted no and indicated he was satisfied the increase applied only to higher-income senior citizens. The tax increase wasn’t imposed on all Social Security recipients. Feingold did not vote to give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants. For a statement that has an element of , our rating is .
Statement: Says a report of unvaccinated Florida teachers dying from COVID-19 isn't real.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: August 13, 2021
Topics: corrections and updates;education;public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: More than 40,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the state. An Instagram user implied that a CNN news report about teachers who died from COVID-19 was  because the school year hadn’t started yet.   Broward County Public Schools reopened Aug. 18, a week after the post was made. However, the Broward Teachers Union and additional news reports confirm that the teacher deaths did occur. We rate this post .
Statement: There's no money in Social Security.
Speaker: barry hinckley
About the speaker: Barry Hinckley ran an unsuccessful race, as a Republican running, for the U.S. Senate in Rhode Island in 2012. A graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, he is the founder and former president of Bullhorn Software in Boston. He is also an aviator and has raced sailboats professionally.
Date: July 24, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;federal budget;social security;taxes
Context: an appearance on Channel 6
Fact-check justification: But Hinckley, in his Channel 6 comments, said Social Security has no money now . At the time he said it, the checks were still going out. And they still are. (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Says Gov. Scott Walker is "cooking the books" by releasing numbers "he just dreamed up" that show Wisconsin gained jobs in 2011.
Speaker: tom barrett
About the speaker: Tom Barrett served as the 44th mayor of Milwaukee from 2004 until 2021. The mayoral position is non-partisan. A member of the Democratic Party, he was previously elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly (1984–1989), Wisconsin Senate (1989–1993) and U.S. House of Representatives (1993–2003).
Barrett lost bids for governor in 2002, 2010 and in the 2012 recall race against Gov. Scott Walker. He was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg on Dec. 23, 2021.
Date: May 17, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs;workers
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Barrett said Walker is "cooking the books" by releasing 2011 jobs data "he just dreamed up." The figures Walker released haven’t yet been verified by the federal government. But they are based on job counts done quarterly by the state that involve about 95 percent of Wisconsin employers. And Barrett provided no  that the number Walker submitted was somehow manipulated. We rate Barrett’s statement .