copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. (Chris Larson, 2021-09-10)
Evidence (2023-11-09): Chris Larson stated on November 9, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter: Says expanding Medicaid in Wisconsin would save the state $530 million, which could pay for 3,287 K-12 teachers, or 7.8 educators per district. Chris Larson stated on September 10, 2021 in Twitter: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. Chris Larson stated on November 9, 2020 in Twitter: "Jurisdictions representing about 80% of WI residents have passed referendums or resolutions in favor of fair maps." Chris Larson stated on September 23, 2020 in a tweet: "(Republicans) have the power to overturn the (state of emergency) order by joint resolution and they refuse to do it." Chris Larson stated on August 24, 2020 in Facebook post: Police are "20.8 times more likely to kill than be killed by a criminal." [...] Chris Larson stated on September 10, 2021 in Twitter: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers.
Claim: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. (Chris Larson, 2021-09-10)
Evidence (2022-11-09): Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers wins re-election in a closely watched race against Republican Tim Michels Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has won re-election to a second term, NBC News projects, narrowly defeating Republican businessman Tim Michels. [...] Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is hoping to fend off Republican challenger Tim Michels. Evers was elected governor in 2018.
Claim: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. (Chris Larson, 2021-09-10)
Evidence (2023-02-28): Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers wearily delivered his speech during a July press conference inside French Island’s public library. Behind him hung a poster of a dinosaur, encouraging kids to "read beyond the beaten path." [...] Democratic lawmakers introduced bills in 2019 and 2021 that would have required the Department of Natural Resources to establish PFAS standards and reporting requirements or to apply the Department of Health Services’ recommended enforcement standards and offer well-testing grants. But neither bill received hearings in GOP-controlled committees. The Legislature also stripped measures from Evers’ budget that would have helped fund the state’s PFAS Action Plan. [...] That majority holds, in part, because Fred Prehn, an appointee of former Republican Gov. Scott Walker, refused to leave the board after his term expired in May 2021. Wisconsin’s conservative-majority Supreme Court ruled that he could do so until the Senate confirms Evers’ nominee; the chamber has yet to hold a hearing. Prehn, who did not respond to a request for comment, cast the deciding vote in contentious decisions on PFAS.
Claim: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. (Chris Larson, 2021-09-10)
Evidence (2024-10-01): One of the Republican lawmakers who introduced the bills says they are necessary because "far too many people have sincere concerns about our electoral system...These bills will help restore trust and make sure our elections are handled fairly for everyone."[297] Wisconsin Democrats have meanwhile labelled them an "attack on voter rights",[297] with the three Democratic members on the Assembly Elections Committee going so far as to say they are a "full-on assault on our elections and the ability for Wisconsinites to vote".[294] Republican leaders in the state say the measures represent a legislative priority for them and intend to move forward with the bills, even though Democratic governor Tony Evers is unlikely to sign them into law (according to the Associated Press, the measures are intended to show "what [Republicans] may try to enact if a Republican is elected governor in 2022."[294]).[298]
Claim: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. (Chris Larson, 2021-09-10)
Evidence (2023-09-18): On Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection held a public hearing on Wolfe’s reappointment. Chair Sen. Dan Knodl, R-Germantown, said he wouldn’t "abdicate" his or the Senate’s authority, despite Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul and the Legislature’s own nonpartisan attorneys concluding Wolfe needed at least four commission votes to be considered. [...] In summer 2022, the GOP-controlled Legislature successfully sued to stop clerks from curing absentee ballot envelopes. A Waukesha County Circuit Court judge ruled that clerks cannot add the missing information and the WEC cannot instruct them to do so.
Claim: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. (Chris Larson, 2021-09-10)
Evidence (2020-04-14): Madison: The Legislature will pass a coronavirus response bill with bipartisan support this week in first-of-their-kind virtual sessions that lawmakers will attend remotely, Republican leaders said Monday. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said he hadn’t reviewed the final version of the bill, which is intended to complement more than $2 billion in federal aid coming to the state, but he’s optimistic bipartisan agreement could be reached. "Hopefully, this will not be a one-shot answer to the crisis here in Wisconsin but an opportunity to establish a dialogue," Evers said on a conference call with reporters. Evers said he was particularly interested in getting aid to struggling Wisconsin farmers and businesses. Evers had objected to an earlier version that would have given the Legislature’s GOP-controlled budget committee the power to make any cuts in spending it wanted.
Claim: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. (Chris Larson, 2021-09-10)
Evidence (2024-09-13): Prominent Republican donor Jere Fabick asked the court late Tuesday to issue a temporary injunction to block the mask order Evers issued on Feb. 4, just after the GOP-controlled Legislature voted to repeal an earlier order. Fabick's lawsuit challenging Evers' authority to issue multiple emergency orders remains before the Supreme Court, which heard arguments in November but has yet to issue a ruling. [...] Fabick and the GOP-controlled Legislature argue that Evers must get legislative approval to extend a health emergency beyond 60 days if it's for the same event. Evers contends the changing nature of the pandemic warranted him issuing new health orders. Fabick's attorneys argued in the filing Tuesday that the Supreme Court needed to take ``immediate action'' to stop the latest order from Evers. Republicans in the Legislature have said they are awaiting a court rule before taking any action to strike down the latest mask order, which runs until March 20.
Claim: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. (Chris Larson, 2021-09-10)
Evidence (2024-04-29): Pennsylvania: Despite a veto threat from Gov. Tom Wolf, the GOP-controlled Senate has passed a rewrite of Pennsylvania’s election code that tightens deadlines and expands voter identification requirements. The bill sponsored by House State Government Committee Chairman Seth Grove, R-York, also moves back the deadlines to apply for a mail-in ballot and voter registration, creates new restrictions on returning mail-in ballots in-person, and implements in-person early voting in 2025. It’s the product of 10 committee hearings on election reform held after the 2020 General Election. After an hour of debate and three days after it passed the state House of Representatives, the upper chamber voted 29-21 to send the 150-page bill to Wolf, who promised to veto the legislation because of its voter identification requirements. Among the proposed changes are giving counties five days to process mail-in ballots ahead of an election, as well as moving back the application deadline for absentee ballots from seven to 15 days before Election Day.
Claim: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. (Chris Larson, 2021-09-10)
Evidence (2024-03-27): Chris Larson stated on September 10, 2021 in Twitter: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. Tim Kaine stated on May 24, 2021 in an op-ed on CNBC: "New Haven, Conn., had to issue bonds for a bridge after using funds for that bridge to pay for a police misconduct settlement." Cory Booker stated on February 9, 2021 in a statement: "There is a direct connection between discriminatory policies within the USDA and the enormous land loss we have seen among Black farmers over the past century." Chris Larson stated on November 9, 2020 in Twitter: "Jurisdictions representing about 80% of WI residents have passed referendums or resolutions in favor of fair maps." Chris Larson stated on August 24, 2020 in Facebook post: Police are "20.8 times more likely to kill than be killed by a criminal." Planned Parenthood stated on March 4, 2020 in news release: "If Roe is overturned, Wisconsin has a law on the books that would immediately make abortion a crime." [...] Chris Larson stated on September 10, 2021 in Twitter: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers.
Claim: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. (Chris Larson, 2021-09-10)
Evidence (2020-04-06): The ruling came after the GOP-controlled state legislature challenged Evers’ order. The state Supreme Court split 4-2 along ideological lines, with Justice Daniel Kelly, who is up for reelection in Tuesday’s balloting, abstaining. [...] "The clerks of this state should stand ready to proceed with the election," state House Speaker Robin Vos and state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said in a joint statement upon appealing Evers’ order. "The governor’s executive order is clearly an unconstitutional overreach." [...] Evers had called the state legislature back for a special session and asked them to act to postpone the election on Friday. The GOP-controlled legislature declined to do so, gaveling in and out of sessions in a matter of minutes on Saturday and earlier on Monday.
Claim: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. (Chris Larson, 2021-09-10)
Evidence (2024-10-04): Dec 20th, 2023 by Gov. Tony EversGOP Legislators Probe Views of Evers’ New DNR Appointees [...] Oct 17th, 2023 by Anya van WagtendonkRepublicans Reject 7 Evers Appointees [...] Jan 9th, 2022 by Erik GunnState Senate Won’t Confirm Evers’ Appointees
Claim: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. (Chris Larson, 2021-09-10)
Evidence (2021-04-21): Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in May suspended rules so people wouldn’t lose coverage during the pandemic through BadgerCare, the state’s main Medicaid program. But some co-pays for childless adults on the program, adopted by previous Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the GOP-controlled Legislature, have begun.
Claim: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. (Chris Larson, 2021-09-10)
Evidence (2024-10-04): Legislature won't okay Evers appointee to replace Fred Prehn so Prehn won’t step down. [...] Jan 9th, 2022 by Erik GunnState Senate Won’t Confirm Evers’ Appointees [...] Thwarting voters’ choice by refusing to approve Evers appointees to boards, commissions.
Claim: The GOP-controlled Legislature has "refused to act on at least 150" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers. (Chris Larson, 2021-09-10)
Evidence (2021-02-05): 9:44 AM CT on 2/4/21 (AP) The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly is scheduled Thursday to vote on repealing the statewide mask mandate issued by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, but the order will remain in effect until the state Senate concurs. [...] The Supreme Court could end the legislative back and forth with a ruling that says Evers must get lawmakers’ approval every 60 days. The court could also say he doesn’t need approval, which would then force the Legislature to repeal every order Evers issues if Republicans disagree with it. [...] Evers also promised during his speech to present a package of legislation addressing the virus. He did not say what measures the bills would enact. Republicans control the Legislature but hasn't met since April, when it passed a coronavirus aid package. Pressure has been building for the GOP to act but so far Republican leaders haven't signaled they plan to do anything.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-07-07): Project 2025, a conservative agenda proposed by a coalition of more than 100 organizations, calls for making sweeping changes to the federal government under the next Republican president. Contrary to social media claims, the policy plan does not call to eliminate the Occupational Safety and Health Administration or banning overtime wages. The plan does call for changes to some OSHA regulations and to overtime rules. Some changes, if enacted, could result in some people losing overtime protections.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-09-12): What does Project 2025 propose? [...] Roberts also stressed that Project 2025 was a "tool … built for any future administration to use." [...] The Harris campaign also has paid for TV ads that say Project 2025 proposes "eliminating the Department of Education" while "requiring the government to monitor women’s pregnancies."
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-08-11): Project 2025 wants the Department of Labor to make it harder for people to earn overtime pay. [...] Project 2025 doesn’t want to raise this threshold. Instead, Project 2025 proposes lowering the threshold and taking away overtime eligibility for millions of workers. This would leave at least four million working people in industries that pay annually but still at lower wages stuck working long hours without overtime pay — everything from hospitality to manufacturing, administrative roles, and more. [...] Project 2025 is a radical playbook that presents a profound threat to the American people, our freedoms, and our democracy. Join us to expose this effort by far-right extremists and fight back.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-08-08): - Let employers avoid time-and-a-half pay: Project 2025 proposes allowing employers to substitute time off for traditional time-and-a-half pay. But giving employers more power would mean that they could prevent workers from using their banked paid time off, effectively eliminating overtime benefits of any kind. [...] - Contend that millions fewer workers should get overtime pay: The Trump administration’s overtime threshold was only $35,568 a year, or $684 per week. Beyond the many ways Project 2025 proposes reducing employee power in the overtime system, even just reverting to the former overtime pay rules put in place by the Trump administration would take overtime away from 4.3 million workers. "Project 2025’s far-right vision of overtime eligibility and benefits is designed to disempower workers," said Lily Roberts, managing director for Inclusive Growth at CAP and author of the column. "It would put more power in the hands of employers to exploit employees, which is seemingly part of Project 2025’s larger goal: pad corporate bottom lines at the expense of workers."
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-06-24): Project 2025 fundamentally seeks to upend our democratic principles by rolling back our civil rights, legalizing discrimination and limiting workplace protections, gutting programs like Medicare, and outright eliminating critical government services like Head Start," said Skye Perryman, President and CEO of Democracy Forward. "Project 2025 is a grave threat to communities across the country and our leadership abroad—and that’s why our report seeks to help the American people understand what’s at stake and how we plan to fight back." [...] "Project 2025 is different and much more sinister than the policy wish lists we’ve seen in the past from groups like the Heritage Foundation. This is a detailed roadmap for consolidating and wielding executive power, written by MAGA extremists who could hold key positions in a future far-right administration. It is, in the words of MAGA leaders, a "war plan" they aim to complete in their first 180 days. It calls for the rapid dismantling of the federal workforce and democratic institutions, elimination of checks and balances on executive power, eviscerating church-state separation, and politically weaponizing what’s left of the federal government to impose a dystopic social and political agenda that takes away fundamental rights and freedoms," said Rep. Huffman, Founder of the Stop Project 2025 Task Force. "Together with our pro-democracy allies, our Task Force is uniting leaders across the political spectrum and experts in every policy area to bring this scheme out of the shadows so that the American people can understand how dangerous it is, and why it must be stopped now."
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-08-24): Inside Project 2025’s plan to weaken unions and lower workers’ wages 11:44 Project 2025’s chapter on the Department of Labor aims to make union organizing more difficult, give unions less bargaining leverage and repeal long-standing anti-discrimination laws. Fmr. Acting Secretary of Labor under President Obama Seth Harris says the policies in Project 2025 are fit for "a society where your only goal is for employers to make more money."Aug. 24, 2024 [...] 11:37 'When we can’t speak, we can't think': Project 2025 plans bring a 'chilling' of liberties 11:16
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-04-24): The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) two-part approach to implementing its new overtime rule—establishing one raise of the salary-threshold level on July 1 and another on Jan. 1, 2025—gives employers options for adjusting the pay of their exempt employees. Effective July 1, the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA’s) annual salary-level threshold for white-collar exemptions to overtime requirements will increase from $35,568 to $43,888. As of Jan. 1, 2025, the annual salary threshold will rise to $58,656.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-09-29): In September 2024, less than two months before the U.S. presidential election, allegations continued to spread that Project 2025 — a conservative coalition's plan for a future Republican administration — sought to put limits on employers having to pay employees overtime by calling for a change in the way work hours are counted. The campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris shared the claim (archived) on Sept. 24: Rep. @DebDingell: Buried in Project 2025 is a plan to eliminate overtime pay. It is a generous gift to corporations and an insult to the American worker. Under Trump's Project 2025, employers could force workers to work more than 40 hours a week without paying them… pic.twitter.com/B2Ji5JsYJA — Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 24, 2024 [...] Buried in Project 2025 is a not-so-secret plan to eliminate overtime pay. It is a generous gift to corporations and an insult to the American worker. Many American families, especially in my state of Michigan, but in many others across the heartland of America and the rest of the country, rely on overtime to make ends meet and to save for their future. In fact, we know that many workers take on jobs specifically because employers offer over time.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-07-12): Does the conservative "Project 2025" initiative to reshape the U.S. government call for a ban on abortion and contraceptives, increased retirement age, cuts in Social Security and Medicare benefits, plus elimination of overtime pay and of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration? No, that's not true: Lead Stories found these claims, posted on Facebook, to be false by reviewing the Heritage Foundation's 887-page policy agenda. While the Project 2025 agenda would make sweeping changes to the federal government if implemented, it does not include the measures described. [...] This is false. However, Project 2025 does want to curb the power of many federal agencies like OSHA. Page 886 of the plan says: [...] This is false. However, Project 2025 does propose reforms that could change how overtime is calculated and also provide an option for paid time-off, as part of a plan of "Refocusing Labor Regulation on the Good of the Family." Page 587 says:
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-09-24): Project 2025’s proposed changes to overtime would slash workers’ paychecks, blocking many from qualifying while introducing loopholes that would erase the time-and-a-half they’re due after working 40 hours, experts said. Project 2025 calls for rolling back the Biden administration rule that raised the salary threshold to $58,656 and expanded the protection to 4.3 million more workers. Project 2025 calls for returning to the Trump-era threshold, which would mean millions fewer workers would be eligible for overtime. [...] Project 2025 calls for rolling back a Biden administration rule that makes it easier for Uber drivers and contracted-out janitors to secure employee status, and with it, essential workplace benefits. "The entire body of labor standards and labor rights is built on the foundation of employment," said Sojourner. Employee status ensures unemployment pay, workers’ compensation, union rights, discrimination protection, minimum wage, and overtime pay, as well as oversight by OSHA. Eliminating the rule will allow corporations to treat far more workers who should be classified as employees as independent contractors, stripping them of these benefits.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-08-28): Project 2025 calls for extending the 40-hour workweek to a 160-hour work-month, allowing employers to avoid paying overtime by cutting an employee’s hours later in the month if they worked extra hours near the start of the month. Project 2025 did propose allowing employers and employees to calculate overtime over extended periods, such as two or four weeks, which could potentially reduce the amount of overtime paid. The proposal suggested flexibility in choosing these periods rather than mandating a 160-hour work-month for all. The claim accurately reflects that this change could lead to fewer overtime payments, but it incorrectly implies that every company would be required to adopt this model.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-07-07): "Fun Fact: Project 2025 eliminates OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and overtime wages," a July 7 Threads post said. [...] A Project 2025 spokesperson told PolitiFact in an email that the claims about eliminating OSHA and overtime wages are "completely false". [...] A Threads post claimed Project 2025 would eliminate OSHA and overtime wages if enacted. The plan does not outright call to eliminate either of those things, but proposes changes that would affect them.