copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: “We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars, combined.” (Nikki Haley, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2023-12-28): The magnitude of this calamity now dwarfs all previous drug epidemics, from the 1980s to the opioid crisis of the 2000s."We’ve seen an entire community devastated," Louise Vincent, a harm reduction activist in North Carolina, told NPR, the public radio system, who says she sometimes still uses street opioids, including fentanyl. [...] Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid much more powerful than heroin, which is associated with the majority of drug deaths in a nation where the large supply market for illegal narcotics is increasingly dangerous. [...] "We have had more Americans killed by fentanyl than in the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam combined," said Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina and candidate to the Republican presidential nomination.
Claim: “We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars, combined.” (Nikki Haley, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2018-02-22): What came next was a stream of increasingly more potent drugs, causing overdose fatality numbers to spike in Kentucky and across the US. By last year, more Americans had died from opioids than in the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined. More Americans die annually from the drugs than are killed in car accidents or firearm incidents. Of the 63,630 recorded drug overdose deaths in the US in 2016, 42,249 were from opioids. [...] Nationally, from 2014 to 2015, the number of fentanyl-related overdose deaths increased by 72%, to nearly 10,000. In 2016, that number had doubled, to 20,100. "Emerging year-over-year figures and episodic outbreaks of fentanyl-related deaths paint a grim picture of an uncontained, plague-like contagion," write Professors Leo Beletsky and Corey Davis in a paper on the fentanyl crisis published last year in the International Journal of Drug Policy.
Claim: “We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars, combined.” (Nikki Haley, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2023-09-27): Nikki Haley claim: Fentanyl has killed more Americans than the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq Fentanyl has killed more Americans "than the Iraq, Vietnam or Afghanistan wars combined." -Haley [...] In 2021 alone, there was a total of 106,000 drug overdose deaths reported in the U.S., including about 70,000 involving synthetic opioids other than methadone, which is primarily fentanyl, according to the National Institutes of Health. That makes Haley's claim true.
Claim: “We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars, combined.” (Nikki Haley, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2023-11-08): HEWITT: Thank you Lester. When NBC News talks to voters, when I talk to voters every day, they all say that the border is a top issue. It can mean a lot of different things. It can mean 2 million people who crossed illegally last year. It can mean more than 150 arrests of people on the terror watch list. It can mean the burden on states from having migrants move into their states from the southwestern border. But I want to talk about opioids specifically and fentanyl. And I'll start with you, Senator Scott. Tens of thousands of Americans families have suffered a death to fentanyl. Young people sometimes die taking one pill. What can you do as Commander in Chief on the first day to stop fentanyl and the waterfall of it into this country? [...] HALEY: I don't care what my colleagues at the United Nations think. What I'll tell you is first of all, you have to go to the source. We have lost more Americans in the Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq wars combined. We lost 75,000 Americans last year. Go to the source. It is the reason why we'll continue to say we will end all normal trade relations with China until they stop murdering Americans. You watch how quick that flow stops.
Claim: “We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars, combined.” (Nikki Haley, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2024-07-07): Fentanyl is now driving the drug overdose crisis across the country. It is the most lethal drug epidemic in American history, the fentanyl crisis. Synthetic opioids, mostly fentanyl, killed an estimated 75,000 Americans in 2023 alone. More than all of the US troops killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam combined. Deaths went up 94 percent in a three year period. [...] ZAKARIA: By 2017, fentanyl was causing more overdoses than any other drug in America. Meanwhile, in Mexico, a new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was embracing a new approach to the drug war. [...] ZAKARIA: And the Little Chapos' lethal product kept on coming. By 2021, American overdose deaths, mostly from fentanyl, were over seven times higher than in 2015.
Claim: “We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars, combined.” (Nikki Haley, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2023-03-08): Why it matters: Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid up to 50 times stronger than heroin, has killed more Americans than the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars combined. In 2021 alone, more than 107,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, with the main culprit being fentanyl mixed with other drugs or chemicals, often without the user's knowledge. Provisional data from the CDC show that 100,500 Americans died from a drug overdose in the 12-month period from September 2021 to September 2022. Americans aged between 18 and 49 are more likely to die from fentanyl poisoning than any other cause of death. [...] Moreover, fentanyl did not take such a hold on the U.S. drug market until recently. In 2016, 20,000 Americans died from synthetic opioid overdoses. Since then, fentanyl overdoses have been steadily increasing.
Claim: “We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars, combined.” (Nikki Haley, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2024-06-25): And then you look at the fact we’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars combined. 75,000 Americans last year alone. There are Chinese police stations throughout our country. There’s a Chinese spy base that’s going off our shores in Cuba, and China’s now building up their military at a scary pace. They have 500 nuclear warheads. That’s a hundred more than they had last year. They have the largest naval fleet in the world. They have 370 ships. They’ll have 400 ships in two years. We won’t even have 350 ships in two decades. They’re doing artificial intelligence, they’re doing space, they’re doing cyber. They’ve developed hypersonic missiles. We’ve barely gotten started. And now China’s the lead developer on neuro-strike weapons, weapons engineered to change the brain activity of military commanders and segments of the population. That’s who we’re dealing with. So when Biden tells you that China’s a competitor, I’ve dealt with China every single day at the United Nations. They never saw us as a competitor. They always saw us as an enemy. We’ve got to start looking at them the way they look at us.
Claim: “We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars, combined.” (Nikki Haley, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2023-12-28): "We do have fentanyl that's dangerous, we have xylazine that's poison," Vincent told NPR. "We've had an entire community swept away. I can't even think of all the people I know who have died. My daughter died. Our mentors are dead. It is so dangerous right now." Public health experts say fentanyl, a synthetic opioid far more powerful than heroin, is responsible for the majority of drug deaths. But the supply of illegal drugs is increasingly complex and perilous. [...] "We've had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam wars, combined," said Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who is now seeking the GOP presidential nomination, speaking to voters in New Hampshire on Dec. 14.
Claim: “We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars, combined.” (Nikki Haley, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2024-07-12): Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic-opioid painkiller, is at the center of the deadliest drug epidemic in American history. More people around the country have died of synthetic-opioid overdoses than the number of U.S. military personnel killed during the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined. Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 49, according to a Washington Post analysis of death data for 2021 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fatal overdoses involving fentanyl among children ages 10 to 19 increased by 182% from 2019 to 2021. To combat the growing number of fentanyl overdose deaths in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott has announced a $10 million fentanyl awareness campaign and plan to distribute doses of Narcan to every county in the state. Narcan is a life-saving medication that can reverse the effects of opioid overdose and save lives. It is available in all 50 states and can be purchased from a local pharmacy without a prescription in most states. [...] Fentanyl is 100 times more powerful than morphine and 50 times more powerful than heroin. The drug has become readily available on the illicit market. As little as 2 milligrams, about the size of five grains of salt, can be deadly depending on a person’s body size and tolerance. Overdose deaths involving fentanyl in Texas rose nearly 400%, from 333 people dying in fiscal year 2019 to 1,662 dying in fiscal year 2021.
Claim: “We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars, combined.” (Nikki Haley, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2024-09-24): We are in the midst of the worst drug crisis in U.S. history. The drug is fentanyl, and unlike cocaine and heroin, it's a purely chemical, man-made drug. It's cheap to produce, easily smuggled, and packs an incredibly addictive punch – 50 times more powerful than heroin. Nearly all the fentanyl flooding into the U.S. is made in Mexico by two powerful drug cartels, with chemicals primarily purchased from China. And as you're about to hear, it is frequently hidden in counterfeit pills made to look just like prescription drugs. It's the scourge of our time. Last year more than 70,000 Americans died from fentanyl; that's a higher death toll than U.S. military casualties in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined. [...] Three years ago, Anne Milgram – a former attorney general of New Jersey – took over the Drug Enforcement Administration. Since then fentanyl has claimed more than 200,000 American lives, although deaths appear to be leveling off. [...] She started putting pictures of people who died from fentanyl in the lobby of DEA headquarters, a daily reminder of the drug's catastrophic impact.
Claim: “We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars, combined.” (Nikki Haley, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2024-09-17): Fentanyl is driving these numbers — and it is everywhere. We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl poisoning than were killed in the Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam wars combined. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fentanyl overdose is now the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45. Yet fentanyl was only briefly mentioned in last week’s presidential debate, and then only in the context of the border crisis, which seems to be the only time it gets mentioned. [...] As Tony Mattivi, Director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation told me recently, "When you look at the faces of the people that are dying from fentanyl, it looks like you’re just ripping pages out of a high school yearbook."
Claim: “We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars, combined.” (Nikki Haley, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2023-02-07): Reducing veteran suicide. Suicide among veterans is a public health and national security crisis. Since 2010, more than 71,000 veterans have died by suicide – more than the total number of deaths from combat during the Vietnam War and operations in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Since releasing a comprehensive strategy for reducing military and veteran suicide, both DOD and VA reported declines in suicide deaths, but much more remains to be done. This will include actions to: [...] Last year, President Biden announced his plan to beat the opioid epidemic as part of his Unity Agenda, because opioid use and trafficking affect families in red communities and blue communities and every community in between. Under President Biden’s leadership, overdose deaths and poisonings have decreased for five months in a row – but these deaths remain unacceptably high and are primarily caused by fentanyl. In the State of the Union, the President will announce key actions the Administration to tackle this issue head on, including by:
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2021-03-18): The law allocates money for an expanded paid-leave fund for federal workers dealing with certain COVID-19-related matters. There is no bonus check. It covers leave that would otherwise be unpaid.
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2021-03-18): No, COVID-19 relief law doesn’t give federal workers a $21,000 bonus [...] There is no bonus check. This appears to be a distortion of a limited-term provision in the package that provides additional paid family leave to some federal employees, covering leave that would otherwise be unpaid. [...] A Facebook post claims that the new COVID-19 relief package provides every federal employee with a $21,000 bonus check.
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2021-02-23): The U.S. House version of the "American Rescue Plan Act of 2021" – a $1.9 trillion emergency aid package to help America recover from the coronavirus pandemic has an extra perk for federal workers: Enhanced paid time off if your child is enrolled in a school that isn’t back to full-time, in-classroom instruction. Critics call it a personal bailout for bureaucrats. It is funded through a new $570 million family leave account exclusively for federal workers. [...] Buried on page 305 of the House bill released late last Friday night (included after the bailout details for states and localities), is a new Treasury Department fund called the "Emergency Federal Employee Leave Fund."
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2021-03-10): The House passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan Wednesday, marking a major Democratic legislative victory aimed at boosting the economy and ending the pandemic.
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2021-01-14): These are key parts of a $1.9 trillion proposal that President-elect Joe Biden unveiled Thursday evening.
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2021-01-20): President Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is ambitious, but achievable, and will rescue the American economy and start beating the virus. Congress should act expeditiously to help working families, communities, and small businesses persevere through the pandemic.
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2021-03-11): "Did you know? Line 17 of the $1.9 TRILLION CV #Stimulus awards a $25 MILLION BONUS to House Reps?" the post said. [...] The claim is FALSE, based on our research. The $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus, which has passed the House and Senate and been signed by Biden, does not include bonuses for members of Congress. [...] - Johns Hopkins University, accessed March 11, Coronavirus Resource Center - USA TODAY, March 10, "$1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill with $1,400 stimulus checks passes House, heads to President Biden for signature"
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2021-03-10): WASHINGTON — The House gave final passage Wednesday to a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package that will deliver $1,400 stimulus checks to millions of Americans, extend enhanced unemployment benefits and boost funding to ramp up vaccine distribution and reopen schools.
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2022-12-08): The $36 billion comes from Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, the COVID-19 relief package he signed into law in March 2021 without any Republican votes in favor. Its major provisions included $1,400 payments to about 85% of Americans, $360 billion for state and local governments, and $242 billion in expanded unemployment benefits.
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2021-03-09): COVID-19 relief package: $1,400 checks, $300 bonus for federal unemployment benefits Congress is poised to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan this week after the Senate narrowly approved the package over the weekend.
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2021-03-10): By — Kevin Freking, Associated Press Kevin Freking, Associated Press Leave a comment 0comments Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/whats-inside-the-1-9-trillion-covid-19-bill-passed-by-congress Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter What’s inside the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill passed by Congress Economy Mar 10, 2021 2:58 PM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved a sweeping pandemic relief package over Republican opposition on Wednesday, sending it to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. The milestone political victory would provide $1,400 checks for most Americans and direct billions of dollars to schools, state and local governments, and businesses. Democrats said their "American Rescue Plan" would help the country defeat the virus and nurse the economy back to health. Republicans criticized the $1.9 trillion package as more expensive than necessary and they complain it inflates the national debt and sends money to projects not directly tied to the pandemic. The measure follows five earlier virus bills totaling about $4 trillion that Congress has enacted since last spring. A look at some highlights of the legislation: Aid to the unemployed Expanded unemployment benefits from the federal government would be extended through Sept. 6 at $300 a week.
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2021-03-11): The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package gives federal employees access to a new bank of paid leave, which will allow them to recover from COVID-19 and care fo... [...] Congress on Wednesday passed a sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, known as the American Rescue Plan, which will provide federal employees with a few new benefits. [...] The American Rescue Plan includes a few provisions that are notable for federal employees. At the top of the list is more paid leave for the vast majority of employees.
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2021-01-15): Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, "Biden to Unveil $1.9 Trillion COVID Response Plan," Jan. 14, 2021 [...] CNN, "Here's what's in Biden's $1.9 trillion economic rescue package," Jan. 15, 2021 [...] Washington Post, "Congressional Republicans balk at Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief plan, complicating push for quick passage," Jan. 15, 2021
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2021-02-26): Other "urgent needs" include $50 million for Planned Parenthood, $685 billion that isn’t scheduled to be spent for another two years – about a third of the entire cost of the bill, and an additional $1,400 per week, up to $21,000 total, for federal employees who have kids out of school, but ignores millions of parents outside of D.C. who are also suffering through school closures, a crisis that has already forced one million American moms to leave the workforce. [...] When you add it all up, the price tag of Democrats’ bill is jaw-dropping. At $1.9 trillion, it is the single most expensive bill in history. But don’t call it a rescue or relief bill. Call it a Pelosi Payoff. Because the amount of money that actually goes to funding public health is less than nine percent. This is not a serious attempt to fix the real problems of the American people.
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2020-12-01): The markets are super-volatile right now. A chief strategist for JPMorgan's $1.9 trillion asset management arm tells us how to play this.
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2021-02-05): 2:20 PM CT on 2/3/21 (AP) President Joe Biden told House Democrats on Wednesday he's "not married" to an absolute number on his $1.9 trillion COVID rescue plan but Congress needs to "act fast" on relief for the pandemic and the economic crisis. [...] White House press secretary Jen Psaki said there is "obviously a big gap" between the $1.9 trillion package Biden has proposed and the $618 billion counteroffer. [...] It would be the first significant legislative response to the pandemic since the landmark CARES Act passed virtually unanimously in March, delivering $1.8 trillion in aid, more generous $600 per week bonus jobless benefits and $1,200 direct payments to individuals.
Claim: “Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion bailout gives EVERY federal employee a $21,000 bonus check… they never lost their job!” (Facebook posts, 2021-03-18)
Evidence (2021-07-19): President Biden signed the $1.9 trillion pandemic-relief bill into law, Bloomberg reported, capping his first major legislative achievement and allowing aid to flow to tens of millions of individuals, businesses and state and local governments. [...] President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill cleared its final congressional hurdle Wednesday, with the House passing the bill on an 220 to 211 vote, sending it to the president for his signature. [...] The U.S. House of Representatives passed a budget that helps clear the path for a fast-tracking of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan, Bloomberg reported. The Senate plans to pass an identical version of the budget later this week.
Claim: “If you look at the one (hydroxychloroquine) survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape. They were very old. Almost dead.” (Donald Trump, 2020-05-19)
Evidence (2020-05-19): Trump spoke as though there was only one study that found no benefit from hydroxychloroquine, and said it only looked at people "that were in very bad shape," almost dead. There have been three studies, and all found no link between hydroxychloroquine and reduced deaths. All studies filtered out the impact of underlying health problems.