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Drugs are the wild card
"In Canada, for a number of decades, they have provided quality care to all people without out-of-pocket expenses. You go in for cancer therapy, you don't take out your wallet."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, February 22nd, 2019
Numbers are accurate, but misleading
GOP tax plan "is better for working, middle-class families" since "88% of the tax relief goes to those making $100,000 or less."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, February 22nd, 2019
Data needs disentangling
"Thanks to successful federal, state, and local efforts, preliminary statistics show opioid overdose deaths are down 8.5% in West Virginia."
— PolitiFact West Virginia on Thursday, February 21st, 2019
Language of origin: French
The word picnic is a "racially insensitive word."
— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, February 21st, 2019
No such scam exists
A photo of Trump having a stroke is really a virus that will wipe out all information on your computer.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, February 21st, 2019
Takers or Medicare for All?
Says Kamala Harris said, "We will take their (health) insurance away."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, February 21st, 2019
Basically on target
Federal workers "are paid well above the HOUSEHOLD income in southern Missouri."
— PolitiFact Missouri on Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
Claim is severe exaggeration of the facts
"In 2017, illegal aliens murdered 1,800 Americans."
— PolitiFact California on Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
Not kneeling during anthem
A photo shows Joe Namath and Al Woodall kneeling on the sideline of a football field during the national anthem.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
Not all affected in same way
The partial government shutdown in early 2019 affected "18,000 federal employees in West Virginia."
— PolitiFact West Virginia on Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
Remembering an old CBO score
"Comprehensive immigration reform, the bill we had back in 2013 ... brought the debt down $158 billion."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
Puts words in Northam's mouth
Says Gov. Ralph Northam "stated that he would even allow a newborn baby to come out into the world... then talk to the mother and talk to the father and then execute the baby."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
Company has an internal veteran group
Says former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz once said that he would "hire an illegal immigrant" before he would hire a veteran.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
Federal policy has seen many changes
A provision in the first bill passed by House Democrats would "allow the billions of dollars of aid we send to other countries to be used for abortions."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
Overheated rhetoric
"Climate change is nothing but a bunch of computer models that attempt to tell us what's going to happen in 50 years or 30. Notice the predictions are never for next year or the next 10 years. They're always for way, way, way, way out there, when none of us are going to be around or alive to know whether or not they were true."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
Claim not backed by data
"One out of every five people that the federal government charges with murder is an illegal alien."
— PolitiFact Florida on Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
Faux quote dates back to 2017
Quotes Mike Pence as saying that people with pre-existing conditions need "more Jesus care," not health care.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Monday, February 18th, 2019
This claim boils down to guilt by association
Says Bill Daley, as part of former Gov. Bruce Rauner’s transition team, wrote "the blueprint" for record Springfield gridlock.
— PolitiFact Illinois on Sunday, February 17th, 2019
Ignores critical facts on abortion
"We’re talking about a law that would allow a child to be aborted right up to the moment of birth."
— PolitiFact Vermont on Friday, February 15th, 2019
Let's look at the word "nearly"
Says "nearly half" of House Republicans have supported a nonpartisan redistricting bill.
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Friday, February 15th, 2019
