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# Fact-checking the fourth 2024 Republican presidential primary debate * National ![\\"Republican](\\" Republican presidential candidates from left, Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy participate in Republican presidential primary debate Dec. 6, 2023, at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP) By PolitiFact Staff December 7, 2023 Fingers pointed and tempers flared as Republican candidates for the 2024 presidential nomination faced off during the fourth primary debate. The debate, held in solidly Republican Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was the last GOP presidential debate of 2023 and came just 40 days before Jan. 15, when the first official votes will be cast in the Iowa caucuses. In this debate, the Republican field was whittled down to four qualifying candidates: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. The candidates squabbled over electability, corruption and support for Israel. They also discussed former President Donald Trump’s recent comments on immigration, inflation and how he’d handle a second presidency. Trump, the GOP front-runner, skipped this debate, as he had the previous three. Here, we fact-check the candidates’ claims. LGBTQ+ DeSantis: \"I did a bill in Florida to stop the gender mutilation of minors. It’s child abuse and it\'s wrong. (Haley) opposes that bill. She thinks it\'s fine and the law shouldn\'t get involved with it.\" This claim has two parts, and each needs more context. In May 2023, the Florida Legislature passed a bill that banned gender- affirming surgeries for minors. Experts told PolitiFact that gender-affirming surgeries are not the same as genital mutilation. And the law didn’t ban just surgeries — it banned all gender-affirming medical care, including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which are supported by most major U.S. medical organizations. Surgeries are rarely provided as part of gender-affirming care for minors. In a June CBS interview, Haley said when it comes to determining what care should be available for transgender youth, the \"law should stay out of it and I think parents should handle it.\" She followed up by saying, \"When that child becomes 18 if they want to make more of a permanent change they can do that.\" Haley’s campaign pointed to a May ABC television appearance in which she said that a minor shouldn’t have a \"gender-changing procedure\" and opposed \"taxpayer dollars\" funding one. Haley: \"I said that if you have to be 18 to get a tattoo, you should have to be 18 to have anything done to change your gender.\" During the debate, Haley likened her position on gender-affirming care for minors — that it should be up to parents until the child is 18 — to age requirements for getting a tattoo: \"I said that if you have to be 18 to get a tattoo, you should have to be 18 to have anything done to change your gender.\" We’ve heard that comparison before. Two-thirds of U.S. states allow minors to get tattoos if their parents consent. And medical experts have told us gender- affirming care is in many cases considered medically necessary, while tattoos are cosmetic. DeSantis: \"South Carolina had a bill to try to say that men shouldn’t go into girls’ bathrooms, and (Haley) killed that bill.\" DeSantis has a point that the bill died and Haley had criticized it. As governor, Haley said in 2016 that she didn’t believe it was \"necessary\" to pass a Senate bill that would have required people to use the bathroom that aligned with their sex. A similar law in North Carolina, H.B. 2, had sparked backlash and boycotts. The South Carolina bill, which would have applied to public and school restrooms, stalled in committee, so it never reached Haley’s desk. In a 2022 appearance on Fox News, Haley said that she \"strong-armed\" the bill and that schools should resolve the issue with parents. Moderator Megyn Kelly, to Christie: \"When you were governor in 2017, you signed a law that required new guidelines for schools dealing with transgender students. Those guidelines required schools to accept a child\'s preferred gender identity, even if the minor’s parents objected. And it said that there is no duty for schools to notify parents if their son or daughter changes their gender identity, allowing this serious issue to remain a secret between the school and a child. Christie: \"That\'s simply not true. That law was put into effect in 2018 and regulated in 2018 after I was out of office.\" This needs clarification. In July 2017, Christie signed into law a bill passed by the Democratic-led New Jersey Legislature that required the state’s Department of Education to issue guidance to public schools for policies regarding transgender students. The Legislature asked for guidelines on several topics, including the use of restrooms and locker rooms, and whether students should be required to use facilities that conflicted with their gender identities. It also required guidance on privacy, \"including ensuring that school personnel do not disclose information that may reveal a student\'s transgender status.\" It did not specifically mention parental notification. The department’s guidelines came in 2018, during Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration, when Christie was no longer governor. That guidance said a school district should accept a student’s stated gender identity and that \"parental consent is not required.\" \"There is no affirmative duty for any school district personnel to notify a student’s parent or guardian of the student’s gender identity or expression,\" it said. ![](\\" Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, left, talks with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, right, during a commercial break at a Dec. 6, 2023, Republican presidential primary at the University of Alabama. (AP) Ramaswamy: \"Transgenderism is a mental health disorder.\" PolitiFact rated Ramaswamy’s claim False after he introduced it at the second primary debate. In the past, medical professionals viewed the experience of being transgender as a \"disorder,\" but they no longer agree on that categorization. In the last decade, diagnostic manuals published by the World Health Organization and American Psychiatric Association contained updated language to clarify that being transgender is not a mental illness. Experts told us that persistent gender dysphoria can cause other mental health problems, but it is not itself a mental health disorder. Israel Haley: \"Fifty percent of adults 18 to 25 think that Hamas was warranted in what they did with Israel\" in the Oct. 7 attacks. Haley’s claim appears to stem from a Harvard-Harris poll of 2,116 respondents conducted after the Hamas attacks. It asked, \"Do you think the Hamas killing of 1,200 Israeli civilians can be justified by the grievances of Palestinians or is it not justified?\" Fifty-one percent of respondents 18 to 24 (not 25 as Haley said) said the attacks were justified; 49% said the attacks were not justified. But this statistic carries several caveats. First, the sample size for this age group was small, about 199 people. That means the 51% to 49% result could be much wider because of sampling error. Second, not one of three other polls conducted around the same time, revealed support for Hamas among young people to be that high. Finally, 18-to-24-year-olds in the Harvard-Harris poll gave wildly inconsistent answers to other questions. By 2-1 margins, those respondents said Hamas’ Oct. 7 action \"was a terrorist attack\"; that the attacks \"were genocidal in nature\"; that Israel has \"a responsibility\" to retaliate \"against Hamas terrorists\"; and that Hamas \"is a terror group that rules Gaza with force and fear and is not supported by them.\" Dritan Nesho, founder and chief executive officer of HarrisX, the polling company, told PolitiFact these seemingly contradictory views might stem from younger Americans’ relatively unformed views on the conflict and its political complexities. This extra information is why we rated a similar claim from Ramaswamy about young Americans’ purported support for Hamas Mostly False. Haley: \"The idea that (three university presidents) would go and allow that kind of pro-Hamas protest or agree with the genocide of Jews and try and say that they needed context on that? There is no context to that.\" Haley was referring to a Dec. 5 congressional hearing in which Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., pressed the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania on whether they would discipline students who called for the genocide of Jews. In back-and-forth exchanges, the three university presidents responded similarly — disciplinary action for statements about genocide would depend on the context. The presidents did not say they agreed with the genocide of Jews. When Stefanik asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews constituted bullying or harassment, University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill said, \"It is a context-dependent decision.\" Responding to the same question, Harvard President Claudine Gay said, \"The rules around bullying and harassment are quite specific and if the context in which that language is used amounts to bullying and harassment, then we take action against it.\" Again to the same question, MIT president Sally Kornbluth said, \"I have not heard calling for the genocide of Jews on our campus.\" Stefanik responded, \"But you’ve heard chants for intifada.\" (Intifada is an Arabic word that means uprising. Some people see this word as a call for violence against Jewish people.) Kornbluth said, \"I’ve heard chants which can be antisemitic depending on the context when calling for the elimination of the Jewish people.\" The White House, elected officials and academics criticized the university presidents for their responses. ![](\\" Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks Dec. 6, 2023, during Republican presidential primary at the University of Alabama. (AP) Immigration Haley: \"All of the 7 or 8 million illegals that have come under Biden’s watch absolutely have to go back.\" This misinterprets available data. From February 2021, Biden’s first month in office, to October 2023, immigration authorities encountered migrants almost 8 million times at and between ports of entry. But that doesn’t mean 8 million people have entered the country. Customs and Border Protection’s data tracks events, not people. If one person tries crossing the border three times, for example, that would register as three encounters. Immigration data also doesn’t tell us how many people have entered and stayed in the U.S. under Biden. Customs and Border Protection data shows that millions of encounters led to removals. DeSantis: \"Nikki Haley said the other day there should be no limits on legal immigration and that corporate CEOs should set the policy on that.\" This is misleading. Haley has not called for unlimited immigration. At a rally and in an interview with the conservative outlet Breitbart, she said legal immigration should be \"based on merit\" and not on an \"arbitrary number.\" Every year, the U.S. allows a specific number of immigrants to enter the country for permanent employment. But Haley said that debating what is the best number is \"the wrong way to look at\" legal immigration. \"Yes, the fabric of America is legal immigration,\" Haley said at a November rally in New Hampshire. \"But let’s get the right ones in that are going to make America better.\" Haley said the U.S. should ask the agriculture, tourism and technology sectors what they need. The focus should be on \"those who will lift our economy,\" Haley told Breitbart in August. Claims of corruption Ramaswamy used his opening statement to claim that Haley was \"bankrupt\" when she left her post as United Nations ambassador in 2018, but quickly became a millionaire. \"After you left the U.N. you became a military contractor. You actually started joining service on the board of Boeing, whose back you scratched for a very long time, and then gave foreign multinational speeches like Hillary Clinton is, and now you\'re a multimillionaire,\" Ramaswamy said. \"That math does not add up. It adds up to the fact that you are corrupt.\" Haley responded, \"My husband is in the military and I served our country as U.N. ambassador and governor. It may be bankrupt to him, but it certainly wasn\'t bankrupt to us.\" Was she really bankrupt? According to Haley’s 2018 financial disclosure, she carried different kinds of debt, including: $25,000 to $65,000 in credit card debt; a $250,000 to $500,000 line of credit; and a mortgage of $250,000 to $500,000. The form also showed a $1 million mortgage on an investment property she took on from her parents in 2017, but sold in 2018 for $1.2 million. Haley’s office told the Post and Courier, a Charleston, South Carolina, newspaper, that her finances were not why she resigned from the U.N. and that her overall debt was less than $500,000. Haley’s net worth has quickly risen since then, and is now estimated to be around $8 million, according to Forbes. Her income increased by giving high- paying speeches, writing books and joining corporate boards, including for aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co. and homebuilder United Homes Group, her financial disclosures show. Ramaswamy has the second-highest estimated net worth of the Republican presidential candidates, Forbes reported, at $880 million. (Former President Donald Trump’s is at $2.6 billion.) Ramaswamy started his career investing in biotech stocks before founding a drug development company in 2014 that’s now worth close to $7 billion. Haley and DeSantis accuse each other of China loyalties DeSantis and Haley repeated familiar attacks on China. DeSantis quipped that Haley wrote a \"love letter\" to recruit Chinese business to South Carolina when she was governor. Fox News reported that Haley wrote to Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai in 2014 during her governorship, writing, \"We consider your country a friend and are grateful for your contributions on the economic front.\" She recruited multiple Chinese companies to the state, including a fiberglass company with connections to the Chinese Communist Party. Haley countered that DeSantis accepted campaign support from a \"Chinese\" refrigerant company. McClatchy reported DeSantis held a 2022 rally at iGas USA, a Tampa-based refrigerant company, which has \"backing from China.\" CEO Xianbin (Ben) Meng wrote DeSantis a check in August for more than $11,000, McClatchy reported. As Haley continued, DeSantis said fact-checkers have not found \"one instance of me recruiting a Chinese business\" to Florida. That’s consistent with what PolitiFact reported in November. ![](\\" Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy speaks Dec. 6, 2023, during a Republican presidential primary at the University of Alabama. (AP) Ukraine Ramaswamy: \"These people want to send your sons and daughters to go die in Ukraine. They’ve been arguing for it for a year.\" The other candidates have not said this. In the second Republican debate, on Sept. 27, DeSantis said, \"It\'s in our interest to end this war. And that\'s what I will do as president. We are not going to have a blank check. We will not have U.S. troops.\" Haley said at an August campaign stop, \"I don’t think we need to put troops on the ground. But what we do need to do is get with our allies and make sure they have the equipment and ammunition they need to win.\" Although Christie has strongly supported Ukraine in its fight against Russia, we couldn’t find an instance in speeches and other public statements in which he backed sending U.S. troops to fight there. Policy and legislation DeSantis: President Joe Biden wants \"a central bank digital currency.\" This is misleading. Biden has not proposed a central bank digital currency. In March 2022, he issued an executive order directing a feasibility study for one, however. As a result, the Federal Reserve is studying a central bank digital currency’s pros and cons, as are dozens of countries. The Federal Reserve said a central bank digital currency would not replace cash. It also said it has not decided to institute such a system and that congressional approval would be required to create one. DeSantis also said during the debate that a central bank digital currency would take away Americans’ privacy and regulate their purchases. Bryan Griffin, then DeSantis’ press secretary, told PolitiFact in April the fact that the Fed is studying it \"leaves plenty of room for concern.\" But experts we spoke with in March said current U.S. laws wouldn’t permit the kind of control and surveillance DeSantis described. Haley: DeSantis \"tried to push a law that would stop anonymous people from talking to the press and went so far to say bloggers should have to register with the state if they’re gonna talk about, write about elected officials.\" Haley got some things right and some things wrong. DeSantis did push a Florida bill that would have suppressed journalists’ use of anonymous sources and make it easier to sue news organizations for defamation. The measure, filed in February, died in committee. It would have removed many protections journalists have against defamation claims, including being able to refuse to identify anonymous sources in most cases. It also would have declared that anonymously sourced statements are \"presumptively false for purposes of a defamation action.\" But DeSantis didn’t support a failed bill that would have required bloggers to register with the state. The legislation, filed in February by state Sen. Jason Brodeur, R-Lake Mary, required journalists to submit reports if they are paid to write about elected officials, or face fines. DeSantis said in a press conference shortly after the bill’s filing that he’s never supported the measure. It also died in committee. DeSantis: \"100% of the things I promised as governor, I delivered on those promises.\" This is inaccurate. DeSantis has followed through on some of his campaign promises, but not all, PolitiFact’s DeSant-O-Meter promise tracker shows. Of the 15 promises PolitiFact tracked, DeSantis kept five and compromised on six. We’ve rated one Stalled and one In the Works. His remaining two pledges were rated Promise Broken. DeSantis failed to follow through on his 2018 promise to lower the corporate tax rate in Florida. The rate dropped temporarily from 2019 to 2021 before rebounding in 2022 to 5.5% — the rate it was before he took office. We also rated Promise Broken his pledge to reduce the state’s communication services tax. The tax is levied on services such as cable and satellite television, video and music streaming and telephone and mobile communications. Florida’s total communications services tax rate of 7.44% has consistently ranked as one of the nation\'s highest. It hasn’t budged during DeSantis’ governorship. ![](\\" Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie makes a point Dec. 6, 2023, during Republican presidential primary at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. (AP) Elections Ramaswamy: \"The 2020 election was indeed stolen by Big Tech.\" This is wrong. Allegations of a rigged or stolen 2020 election have been rebutted by audits, judges, and officials in Trump’s administration. We contacted Ramaswamy’s campaign during the debate to ask for his evidence and received no immediate response. On NBC’s \"Meet the Press\" on Aug. 27, Ramaswamy said, \"There\'s hard data showing that many voters, many independent voters, would have changed their result enough to influence the outcome of the election if they had been exposed to what we now know to be the truth about the Hunter Biden laptop story.\" The laptop was left at a Delaware computer repair shop, and some of the laptop’s contents were reported by the New York Post in October 2020, weeks before the presidential election. The laptop story was suspected to be Russian-planted disinformation, but subsequent reporting contradicts that premise. Twitter blocked users from sharing the story. Executives at the tech giant now say that was done errantly. Since the 2020 election, news organizations such as CBS News, The New York Times and The Washington Post have independently verified at least some of the laptop’s contents. But there isn’t evidence that Twitter’s actions resulted in the election being stolen. A 2022 poll by a self-identified \"right-leaning outfit\" found that among a group of people who had been following the story, 28% would have been \"very likely\" to change their vote had they known the laptop was not disinformation, and 25% were \"somewhat likely.\" However, the pool of respondents who answered this question leaned Republican more strongly than the general population, so most of these voters would not have been voting for Biden in the first place. Ramaswamy: \"Jan. 6 now does look like it was an inside job.\" This is Pants on Fire. Numerous investigations into what happened Jan. 6, 2021, including by a congressional committee, have found the U.S. Capitol attack was orchestrated and executed by people who supported Donald Trump’s presidency and believed or pushed false claims that the 2020 election was \"stolen.\" Extensive court records involving more than 1,200 defendants also back this up. The public record for hundreds of defendants shows that many considered their actions patriotic; they believed they were on the front lines of a revolution or civil war. Rioters scaled walls, broke windows, forced their way into the building and clashed with police. Among people sentenced for seditious conspiracy are multiple members of far- right groups including the Proud Boys extremist group and militia groups including the Oath Keepers. History DeSantis: When Calvin Coolidge was president, \"the country was in great shape.\" Historians disagree about the success of Coolidge’s presidency, which ran from 1923 to 1929. Coolidge’s reputation has risen in the past two decades, especially among conservatives, who value his record of balanced budgets, low taxes, light regulation and limited government. Biographer Amity Shlaes, who chairs the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, wrote that, under Coolidge, Americans began buying cars and electric appliances, and patents \"increased dramatically.\" Coolidge’s hands-off approach appeared to be reasonably popular with Americans. But the Roaring ’20s ended abruptly with the Great Depression five months after Coolidge left office. This sequence of events has been hard for historians to ignore: A periodic survey of historians currently places Coolidge 24th in the ranking of presidents, just below average. \"Much was happening both at home and abroad, and one must ask whether Coolidge’s policy of apparent inertia was really appropriate for a twentieth- century presidency,\" wrote Peter Clements, author of \"Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal.\" Coolidge \"spoke in his inaugural address of problems such as lynching, child labor and low wages for women. Yet he did nothing to overcome any of these issues.\" David Greenberg, another Coolidge biographer and a Rutgers University historian, has faulted Coolidge failing to help farmers in the run-up to the Depression and for a foreign policy approach that failed to forestall fascism’s rise in Europe. Guest moderator Tom Fitton on approval ratings for federal agencies Citing an \"arrangement with the Republican National Committee,\" debate moderator Megyn Kelly introduced Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, to briefly question the candidates. As he spoke about Trump’s legal cases, Fitton contrasted approval ratings for the FBI, Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Service: \"A recent Gallup poll shows that Americans think more highly of the U.S. Postal Service than they do the FBI or Justice Department.\" This is accurate, although people have viewed the Postal Service favorably for years, according to Gallup polling. In September 2023, Gallup asked 1,016 adults living in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., to rate the performance of 16 federal agencies \"excellent,\" \"good,\" \"only fair,\" \"poor\" or \"no opinion.\" Four of 16 agencies received positive ratings from a majority of people surveyed. The Postal Service got the highest percentage of positive feedback; 62% of respondents rated its job performance \"excellent\" or \"good.\" By comparison, 46% of Gallup poll respondents rated the FBI \"excellent\" or \"good.\" Thirty-three percent of respondents rated the Justice Department \"excellent\" or \"good.\" Among all 16 agencies, the Justice Department had the highest percentage of \"poor\" ratings. Reporting by Grace Abels, Marta Campabadal Graus, Jeff Cercone, Madison Czopek, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman, Sara Swann and Loreben Tuquero.

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You are in: Home Page > Health > **Cut onion in the fridge is bad and becomes a magnet for flu bacteria #rumor** # Cut onion in the refrigerator is harmful and becomes a magnet for flu bacteria #rumor * Health * 03/20/2022 * by Edgard Matsuki ![\\"Cebola](\\" cut-in-the-refrigerator-is-harmful-and-becomes-a-magnet-of-flu-bacteria-says rumor.jpg\\") Rumor – Storing the onion in the refrigerator to consume the next day is a great danger. As it is a magnet for bacteria (such as the flu), onions in refrigerator become a poison and harms people. Today we are going to talk, without a doubt, about one of the greatest classics when it comes to rumors on the internet. It is a message that tells an incredible story and talks about onions, flu, refrigerators and health. The text in question (which goes viral throughout the year, including in 2020) “tells a short story” that points out that a farmer decided to get rid of the “flu bacteria” with a very simple initiative: placing the onions in the corners of the house. After the “incredible feat”, a doctor would have tried to understand what had happened happened and discovered that onions are a magnet for bacteria. More than that, he discovered that because of the farmer's story, an onion should never be placed in the refrigerator because it would become poisonous, a magnet for bacteria, etc. etc etc. Read the message circulating online: LIVING AND LEARNING Here's something we do and it's so dangerous! ONIONS! I had never heard that one! In 1919, when the flu killed 40 million people there was a doctor who visited many farmers to see if he could help them fight the flu, as many of them who had contracted the disease had died. ATTENTION. On a visit to another farmer's property in the same region, the The doctor was surprised to learn of the good state of health he found there. All they were very healthy. When the doctor asked the farmer what they what they were doing to protect themselves from the flu, his wife promptly replied that she put a cut onion (unpeeled) on plates and distributed them in the rooms of the house. The Doctor couldn't believe what he heard. He asked the farmer to hand over one of the onions he was using and put it under his microscope, when then observed enormous numbers of flu bacteria accumulated there. Taken to a pulmonologist, he explained that onions are a huge magnet for bacteria, especially raw onions. In short, never keep sliced ​​onions to be used the next day, even if placed in closed, airtight bags or in the refrigerator. Your consumption it must be immediate, as it could be dangerous to consume them afterwards. In addition Furthermore, dogs should never eat onions. Their stomachs can't metabolize onions. Remember: it is dangerous to cut an onion and consume it the next day. The onion becomes highly poisonous, even after a single night, and creates bacteria toxic. These bacteria can cause adverse stomach infections because excess bile secretions and food poisoning. Pass this Message to everyone you love and care about! ## Onion cut in the refrigerator is harmful and becomes a magnet for bacteria, such as flu? It's incredible how this same information continues, even with countless debunked, circulating on the internet year after year. Just for this comment, you You can already imagine that the story that says you shouldn't eat onions placed in the refrigerator because of bacteria is more fake than a three-dollar bill real. Don't worry, we'll explain everything to you. Just to give you an idea, this is the seventh time we have discussed this subject. We already talked about the “legend of the onion” in 2013, in 2017 (denying a print from a printed publication), in 2018 (using the name of a doctor on one occasion and through an audio in another), in 2019 (mentioning the name of another doctor) and through a video. As all explanations on the subject have already been put, remember what was said on each occasion: 2013: Let's get to the facts: the text does not cite many reliable details. Doesn't say where this story happened, who was the doctor and who was the pulmonologist who proved the thesis of onions as a magnet for bacteria. At a time when the world was being ravaged by a pandemic, these people would certainly be famous people such as, for example, Oswaldo Cruz, who spread the fever vaccine yellow in Brazil. The message also has some errors in Portuguese and, mainly, in agreement. Worse than that, the text talks about “flu bacteria”. In In reality, influenza is a disease caused by a viral agent, as can be seen on the website of doctor Dráuzio Varella. This shows that the text was not written by an expert. When looking for some reference about the effectiveness of onion against the flu, no results were found. An article from Veja He even mentions that eating onions to prevent flu is a myth. 2017: Focusing only on the “danger of onions” part, we can say based on three points that the story is false. The first is that the text does not have much coherence. What is the cause-consequence relationship between the story of 1919 and the onion? be fatal? Even if the tale were true (and it isn't), one thing doesn't have nothing to do with anything else. The second point is the number of deaths caused by a chopped onion and consumed later. Do you know how many reported cases there are in the world? If You said none, you got it right. If you believe this means the danger It's not that big, you got it right too. Add this to a text that does not have authorship and that “asks for sharing” (characteristics of rumors) and we have more a bullshit. 2018: You can already see that the story is false and fake. Now let's get to the authorship. The woman who recorded the audio is not an infectious disease specialist at Emílio Ribas. We have two proofs for this (besides the obvious one, which is the fact that the onion story is fake and her name is wrong). The first is that the story has been debunked by the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases. The second is that we know who recorded the audio. This is the same woman who spread false stories like the one that Dr. Dráuzio Varella said that mammograms cause cancer. In other words: it is a source full of fake news. 2018 (II): As per “tradition”, let’s not waste too much time with rumors now denied. The only differences between the 2013 and 2017 denials and the today it is the “moral of the story” that circulated online and the first sentence of the text. 2019: We return to talk about the “part” that attributes the authorship of the audio to Dr. Juliana Miguita. Two reasons lead us to the conclusion that it is false. The first is searching the social networks of the doctor (who works at the Hospital of Clinics). On some occasions (2018 and 2019), she denied authorship of the text. The second reason was presented when we denied that the same audio had was actually created by Dr. Marinella Della Negro. Remember: “we Know who recorded the audio. This is the same woman who spread stories false ones like the one that pointed out that Dr. Dráuzio Varella said that mammography causes cancer. In other words: it is a source full of fake news”. After so many denials, we don't even have anything else to say. We just have to reinforce that the story that points out that putting onions in the fridge is a danger and that onions are a bacteria magnet are false. It's just another rumor that always insists on circulating on the internet. P.S.: This article is a suggestion from Boatos.org readers. If you want suggest a topic to Boatos.org, get in touch with us via the website, Facebook and WhatsApp on phone (61) 99177-9164.

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The Poynter Institute Menu Donate State Editions * California * Florida * Iowa * Michigan * New Hampshire * New York * North Carolina * Pennsylvania * Texas * West Virginia * Wisconsin Issues * All Issues * Online hoaxes * Coronavirus * Health Care * Immigration * Extremism * Taxes * Marijuana * Environment * Crime * Guns * Foreign Policy * LGBTQ+ People * Joe Biden * Kamala Harris * Donald Trump * Mitch McConnell * Hakeem Jeffries * Ron DeSantis Media * PunditFact * Tucker Carlson * Sean Hannity * Rachel Maddow * Bloggers * PolitiFact Videos Campaigns * 2024 Elections Truth-o-Meter * True * Mostly True * Half True * Mostly False * False * Pants on Fire Promises * Biden Promise Tracker * Trump-O-Meter * Obameter * Latest Promises About Us * Our Process * Our Staff * En Español * Who pays for PolitiFact? * Advertise with Us * Suggest a Fact-check * Corrections and Updates * Newsletters Donate #### Follow us The Facts Newsletter Sign up English Español ### Get PolitiFact in your inbox. * Weekly Email Newsletter * Daily Email Newsletter Your Email Address Sign Up ![](\\" ![](\\" End Citizens United stated on August 22, 2016 in a campaign ad: Says U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin voted to \"force seniors to pay more for prescription drugs.\" ![\\"true\\"](\\" half-true/6479cbc723379f0ee49c269b0b9790b7.jpg.\\") ![\\"half- true\\"](\\" true.jpg\\") * National * Candidate Biography * Congress * Drugs * Health Care * History * Medicare * Voting Record * End Citizens United ![\\"C.](\\" By C. Eugene Emery Jr. August 30, 2016 # PAC ad say Bruce Poliquin voted to force seniors to pay more for prescription drugs The political action committee End Citizens United has launched a multi- pronged attack ad against Rep. Bruce Poliquin, R-Maine, accusing the businessman of making health care more costly for older Americans. In a 30-second television commercial, the PAC says Poliquin voted for a Medicare proposal that would \"force seniors to pay thousands more.\" \"He’d even force seniors to pay more for prescription drugs,\" the ad says. Poliquin\'s office objected to the ad, saying in a news release, \"Congressman Poliquin has been working to get prescription drug prices down, not up. That’s why he strongly supported Medicare coverage for prescription drugs for our seniors.\" Who\'s right here? Both sides are spinning the truth. End Citizens United spokesman Adam Bozzi says the claim is a reference to Poliquin\'s March 25, 2015, vote for a Republican budget that called for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The measure passed the House, but it had no shot of passing the Senate and surviving the veto of President Barack Obama Obama. The language of the ad itself if difficult to understand. We watched the ad several times and weren’t entirely sure if the ad said, \"He’d even force seniors to pay …\" or \"He even forced seniors to pay …\" The wording difference might mislead voters as to what Poliquin did or hoped to do. Either way, End Citizens United says a vote to repeal Obamacare is a vote to force seniors to pay more for drugs because repealing Obamacare would eliminate a fix to Medicare Part D known as the prescription drug doughnut hole. Here\'s what they’re talking about. In 2010, seniors had to pay full price for the first $310 worth of prescription drugs purchased. Between $310 and $2,830, insurance kicked in and Medicare paid 75 percent of the cost. But once the bill exceeded $2,830, seniors had to pay the full price of their drugs until the annual bill reached $4,550 (the doughnut hole). Then catastrophic insurance kicked in and insurance covered 95 percent of the cost. So the \"hole\" was the $1,720 gap between $2,830 and $4,550. In 2006, 4 million seniors ended up paying full price for some of their prescriptions because of the gap. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on September 29, 2024 in a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania Vice President Kamala Harris “even wants to legalize fentanyl.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Amy Sherman • September 30, 2024 The health care law, passed in 2010, sought to shrink and eliminate that gap in coverage. The gap is in the process of being phased out and will close completely in 2020. But even closing it gradually, combined with other features of Obamacare saved nearly 10.7 million seniors more than $20 billion on drug costs, according to a February 2016 estimate by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. That\'s nearly $2,000 per senior since the law was enacted. Repealing Obamacare would cost seniors in other ways, as we outlined two years ago. Poliquin’s campaign argued that Poliquin actually voted against an attempt to repeal Obamacare in February 2015, because there was no plan to replace it. He voted for repeal the following month because the Republican budget had a better plan that would have kept traditional Medicare \"as a plan option\" for people in or near retirement but privatized part of the program. There was another vote on repealing Obamacare on Jan. 6, 2016. Poliquin voted in favor of it. His spokesman, Michael Byerly, said that wasn\'t really a vote to repeal \"as it technically only repealed the harmful taxes and provisions that have caused prices to go up.\" But sponsor Rep. Tom Price, R-Georgia, opened debate on the measure by saying, \"For the first time since the law was enacted, Congress is one vote away from sending a broad repeal of Obamacare to the president’s desk.\" Byerly, Poliquin\'s spokesman, also argued that prescription drug prices have gone up because of Obamacare itself, referring us to a 2010 letter from the Congressional Budget Office predicting a 1 percent increase for established drugs. Democrats, in turn, have argued that Obamacare has kept health costs lower than they would have been without the legislation. As we\'ve reported in the past, such arguments are debatable. To sum it up, Poliquin never voted to raise drug prices directly. He voted to repeal the health care law -- a show vote that could have resulted in drug prices going up for Medicare recipients. Our ruling End Citizens United\'s ad says Poliquin voted to \"force seniors to pay more for prescription drugs.\" It gives the misleading impression that he voted on that specific issue when, in fact, he was voting to repeal the 2010 health care law. If the repeal bill had become law — it didn’t — it would have removed provisions phasing out a prescription drug doughnut hole for Medicare recipients. End Citizens United’s claim is partially accurate but takes things out of context. We rate it Half True. #### Read About Our Process The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter ### Our Sources Emails, Adam Bozzi, spokesman, End Citizens United, Aug. 25-29, 2016 Emails, Michael Byerly, spokesman, Bruce Poliquin, Aug. 25-29, 2016 YouTube, \"Wall Street Playbook,\" End Citizens United channel, Aug. 22, 2016 End Citizens United, \"ME-02 TV Spot: \"Wall Street Playbook,\" accessed Aug. 25, 2016 Bangor Daily News, \"Poliquin defends votes on astere GOP budget bills, touts constitutional amendment,\" March 25, 2015 PolitiFact, \"Health care bill will gobble up doughnut hole -- eventually,\" March 26, 2010 and \"Tom Cotton says he wouldn\'t back changes for those on Medicare, but the ACA repeal he supports would,\" Oct. 16, 2014 Department of Health and Human Services news release, \"Over 8.2 million seniors have saved more than $11.5 billion on prescription drugs since 2010,\" July 29, 2014 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, \"More than 10 million people with Medicare have saved over $20 billion on prescription drugs since 2010,\" Feb. 8, 2016 Bloomberg, \"House Republicans Seek Medicare Cuts That Senate Is Sure to Reject,\" March 17, 2015 PolitiFact, \"Sen. Ron Johnson voted for Paul Ryan plans to make Medicare a voucher program, Democratic Party says,\" June 10, 2016 and \"Gwen Moore says Obamacare created lowest-ever inflation in health care costs,\" Dec. 5, 2014 Congressional Budget Office, Letter to Paul Ryan on projected prescription drug prices, Nov. 4, 2010 Congressional Record, January 6, 2016, \"Restoring Americans\' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015\" The Washington Times, \"House votes to gut Obamacare through budget process,\" Oct. 23, 2015 ## Browse the Truth-O-Meter ### More by C. Eugene Emery Jr. ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on October 25, 2016 in a speech: \"The man who was in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton accepted essentially from Hillary Clinton $675,000 that went to his wife.\" ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" th.jpg\\") ![\\"barely-true\\"](\\" barely-true.jpg\\") By C. 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Says US Rep Bruce Poliquin voted to force seniors to pay more for prescription drugs

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Become a Member Dark Mode Become a Member * Naukri Crisis * Uncovering Hate * Haryana Election * Manipur Conflict * Jammu and Kashmir Election * Climate Change * Members Only * WebQoof * My Report * More * Brand Studio * FIT * Gender * Opinion * Videos * Entertainment * Sports * World * Explainers * More * Podcasts * Politics * The Quint Lab * Graphic Novels * Law * Education * Members\' Opinion * South Asians * NEON Dark Mode Become a Member * Home * Naukri Crisis * Haryana Election * Uncovering Hate * About Us * T&C * Privacy Policy ## BECOME A MEMBER Created by potrace 1.16, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2019 FOLLOW US ON About UsContact UsPrivacy Policy ADVERTISEMENTREMOVE AD # Did Mamata Say Will ‘Show How to Make Hindus Cry’? No, It’s Fake ## The actual headline mentions her talking about “shaking Delhi”. Aditi Parida Updated: 03 May 2019, 5:17 PM IST WebQoof 3 min read ![\\"story-hero- img\\"](\\" i Aa Aa Small Aa Medium Aa Large ![\\"The](\\"\\") Don’t fall for fake news, click here to check out The Quint’s WebQoof stories. CLAIM A newspaper clipping of a leading Bangla daily, Bartaman, made rounds on social media with the headline: “Give me 42 seats and I’ll show you how to make the Hindus cry: Mamata”. Madhu Kishwar tweeted about this clipping, asking “is this for real?”. > Is this for real? Mamta says give me 42 seats and I will show you how to > make Hindus cry! pic.twitter.com/UshzbGwNyt > > — MadhuPurnima Kishwar (@madhukishwar) May 1, 2019 This clipping was shared on Facebook as well. ![\\"The](\\"\\") Sourced from Facebook.(Photo: Screenshot) Also Read ### If Mamata Wants to Return to NDA, We’ll Take a Call: Vijayvargiya ![\\"alsoRead-img\\"](\\"\\") ADVERTISEMENTREMOVE AD TRUE OR FALSE? The clipping is a photo-shopped image where the actual headline has been doctored. The actual headline for the newspaper read: “Give me 42 seats and I’ll show you how to shake Delhi: Mamata”. WHAT WE FOUND OUT On going through the website of the daily newspaper, Bartaman Patrika, The Quint found the original article. ![\\"The](\\"\\") Original article with the correct headline.(Photo: Screenshot of original news article from Bartaman’s website) The original headline that the newspaper carried stated that Mamata Banerjee said, “Give me 42 seats and I’ll show you how to shake Delhi.” The doctored image has replaced two words from the original headline which alters the meaning completely. The following image shows the photo-shopped image. Here the words highlighted are “Hindus” and “Weep/Cry”. ![\\"The](\\"\\") Photo-shopped Headline(Photo: Screenshot) The following is the actual headline produced by the newspaper. The highlighted words are “Delhi” and “Shake”. ![\\"The](\\"\\") Actual headline.(Photo: Screenshot) Thus, “Delhi” was replaced by “Hindus” and “Shake” was replaced by “Weep/Cry”. With further research, The Quint also came across a clarification regarding the photo-shopped image that the daily put out. ![\\"The](\\"\\") Bartaman responding to the photo-shopped news clipping.(Photo: Screenshot of Bartaman’s website) The headline reads: “Fabricated news item of \'Bartaman\' made viral on social media”. > They also mention how distorting the headline made it “provocative” and can > lead to disturbing the communal harmony of the state. On Tuesday, Bartaman filed a written complaint on this matter with the state\'s Chief Election Officer (CEO) Ariz Aftab and Lalbazar\'s cyber crime cell. Also Read ### No, Raveena Tandon Did Not Say Hindus Are Becoming a Minority! ![\\"alsoRead-img\\"](\\"\\") (Not convinced of a post or information you came across online and want it verified? Send us the details on WhatsApp at 9910181818, or e-mail it to us at webqoof@thequint.com and we\'ll fact-check it for you. You can also read all our fact-checked stories here.) (At The Quint, we question everything. Play an active role in shaping our journalism by **becoming a member** today.) ### Read Latest News and Breaking News at The Quint, browse for more from news and webqoof ### Topics: Delhi Mamata Banerjee Fake Published: 03 May 2019, 3:00 PM IST Read Full Article Speaking truth to power requires allies like you. Become a Member Check Member Benefits Read More Loading Comments... ADVERTISEMENTREMOVE AD Stay Updated ADVERTISEMENTREMOVE AD × × SECTIONS * FIT * Gender * Opinion * Videos * Entertainment * Sports * World * Explainers * Podcasts * Politics * The Quint Lab * Graphic Novels * Law * Education * Members\' Opinion * South Asians * NEON TRENDING TOPICS * Anti-Cheating Law * Rasika Dugal Interview * Arundhati Roy * Euro 2024 * T20 World Cup * Kohli, Rohit & Jadeja Retire * Climate Change News * Electoral Bonds News * Rahul Gandhi * ‘Kill’ Review * PM Modi * Robert F Kennedy Jr * Rahul Dravid FOLLOW US ON Quint Hindi FIT About Us Contact Us Privacy Policy T&C

West Bengal CM said she will make Hindus cry if her party wins 42 seats

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Twitter locked US President Donald Trump's account after severe violations of the company's Civic Integrity policy

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O estudo aqui citado mede o efeito da vacina da Pfizer em linhagens de células do fígado em laboratório, em condições experimentais, e não em humanos ou qualquer outro ser vivo, o que é apontado como limitador da pesquisa pelos próprios autores. Além disso, não faz previsões a respeito de nenhuma doença. Eles concluíram que a vacina entra nas células do fígado em meio de cultura seis horas após a administração e que surge DNA convertido a partir do RNA mensageiro em células hospedeiras, mas apontam não saber se o DNA convertido está integrado ao DNA das células, ou seja, se ele compromete o genoma. Especialistas ouvidos pelo Comprova destacam que outros estudos atestam que não há a modificação do DNA pela vacina. Vacina contra a Covid é segura e eficaz \- Kamil Krzaczynski - 22.fev.2021/Reuters Ao Comprova, a Pfizer afirmou que, até o dia 5 de outubro, distribuiu mais de 4,6 bilhões de doses da vacina ComiRNAty em mais de 181 países. 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In a video a doctor states citing a study that vaccines will cause in the future an epidemic of cardiovascular disease an epidemic of autoimmune disease an epidemic of cancer and that's if in one or two generations we Do not have an epidemic of infertility together among other things by changing people’s genetic code

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Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info ### I would like to contribute One Time Monthly Yearly Join Now ![](\\" ![](\\" Facebook posts stated on May 1, 2024 in a Facebook post: Video shows Dr. Mehmet Oz promoting his “exclusive pills” to lose weight. ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") * Facebook Fact-checks * Facebook posts ![\\"Ciara](\\" By Ciara O\'Rourke May 3, 2024 # Altered video appears to show Dr. Mehmet Oz hawking diet pills. That’s not what actually happened. #### If Your Time is short * Altered footage of Dr. Mehmet Oz appears to show him hawking diet pills. In the original footage, posted on his TikTok account, he discusses mental health and urges people suffering from depression to get help. See the sources for this fact-check Sitting outside in a checkered shirt, celebrity heart surgeon and onetime U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz appears to promote diet pills to combat obesity in a video shared May 1 on Facebook. \"To address these issues, we developed this product,\" Oz appears to say. \"It helps dissolve fat throughout the day, even while you sleep. No need for dieting or exercise.\" The Facebook account sharing the video, \"Keto Slimmer,\" wrote: \"Dr. Oz’s exclusive pills is key to your success in shedding those extra pounds.\" This post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.) #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Social Media stated on August 29, 2024 in a post on Instagram “BREAKING: Illegal Aliens in San Diego, California, tried to hijack 2 school buses filled with children.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Madison Czopek • September 4, 2024 The video in the post is altered. PolitiFact found the original posted March 26 on Oz’s TikTok account. \"If you’re feeling down or depressed this time of year you’re not alone,\" Oz said in the original video. \"It happens to everyone. Feelings like this are a sign to pay attention to something that’s just not working in your life. So, use it as a way to focus in on what needs to change in your life, like pain or sadness, anxiety — it’s a clue to find what’s not working so you can make a different choice. 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Video shows Dr Mehmet Oz promoting his exclusive pills to lose weight

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Fast Check CL investigated the information and confirmed its falsehood. By Gabriela Tapia In times of pandemic, many workers have had to reinvent their jobs. No stranger to this phenomenon, Juan Andrés Salfate, publicist and TV panelist, changed his usual theories about UFOs and life outside the planet, due to covid-19 theories. On December 8, through his Twitter account, Salfate assured that had censored a revealing scientific article. Supposedly, this would demonstrate that in 2020 there were no excess deaths due to the pandemic and deaths were “falsely attributed to the pandemic.” > They censor a scientific article that shows that many #Deaths have been > falsely attributed to the #Pandemic and were due to #Heart Diseases, > respiratory and #Flu![VIDEO] ¡Have access > exclusive to my videos by subscribing to my channel! #Censorship > pic.twitter.com/oHsv0baxlo > > — Juan Andrés Salfate (@RinconSalfate) December 9, 2020 ## The source of misinformation The video talks about a document from the Johns Hopkins News-Letter, a media outlet students of the study house. This was written based on the talk “COVID-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Data“, by Genevieve Briand, deputy director of the Program Master's degree in Applied Economics. The document mentions that in 2020 “deaths related to covid-19 They exceeded deaths from heart disease. This was very unusual already that heart disease has always prevailed as the main cause of death.” The phrase indicated in the previous paragraph mainly summarizes the video of Save yourself. However, this question has a fairly simple: people with prevalent illnesses – such as heart problems and respiratory – has a higher risk of death from covid. It should be noted that the document to which Salfate refers was never censored, but withdrawn from circulation due to errors. It is even still found available on the News-Letter page. ## Clarification from Johns Hopkins After a series of conspiracists who drew erroneous conclusions, the Johns Hopkins University itself referred to the issue. In a clarification, They assured that Briand's statements are incorrect: “there is no evidence that COVID-19 has created excess deaths.” “This statement is incorrect and does not take into account the increase in the count gross deaths from all causes compared to previous years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there has “There have been almost 300,000 excess deaths due to COVID-19,” The Johns noted. Hopkins News-Letter. Furthermore, regarding the alleged miscategorization of deaths, they indicated that “Covid-19 disproportionately affects people with medical conditions.” pre-existing conditions, so people with those underlying conditions have statistically more likely to be severely affected and die at cause of the virus." ![\\"\\"](\\" briand-500x500-1.jpg\\")Genevieve BriandSource: Johns Hopkins University ## Excess deaths in Chile Taking this issue to a more local level, it is possible to observe in Chile that this year there has been an increase in deaths linked to covid-19. According to information of the Department of Statistics and Health Information (DEIS) of the Ministry of Health, the total number of deaths had remained at an average of 106,642 deaths per year between 2016 and 2019. 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CENSORED SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE THAT SHOWS THAT MANY DEATH HAS BEEN FALSELY ATTRIBUTED TO THE PANDEMIC

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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates 17 million workers would be “directly affected” by increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 — those workers would otherwise earn less than that. But the number in poverty would decline by 900,000. Those working full-time and earning the current federal minimum wage — $7.25 an hour — would be below the federal poverty guideline of $17,420 for a family of two. Such a worker would earn only $14,500 if working 40 hours a week for 50 weeks a year. A White House spokesperson referred us to those poverty guidelines, while another spokesperson told PolitiFact.com that Biden was referring to families of four. Workers earning between $11 and $13 an hour and in a family of four with no other income would still be below those poverty guidelines. But those earning $14 an hour — $28,000 a year — would be above the federal poverty level of $26,500 for a family of four. Federal guidelines include higher thresholds for Alaska and Hawaii. In those states, workers earning $14 or $15 an hour in a family of four would be below the poverty guidelines. Biden made the claim in an interview with CBS News that aired on Feb. 5. He said he expected a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour — which was part of his COVID-19 relief package — would not be included in the final legislation, the American Rescue Plan. “My guess is it will not be in it,” Biden said. But he went on to say that he supported the policy. “I am prepared, as president of the United States on a separate negotiation on minimum wage, to work my way up from what it is now, which is — look, no one should work 40 hours a week and live below the poverty wage. And if you’re making less than $15 an hour, you’re living below the poverty wage,” Biden said, without specifying the size of the worker’s family. ![\\"\\"](\\" guidelines2.jpg\\") Our calculations above show gross income, before taxes. Federal, state and local government programs offering assistance to low-income individuals may use before- or after-tax thresholds for eligibility. The Census Bureau uses before-tax money income and slightly different poverty thresholds to determine its poverty measure. While the federal minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009, 29 states plus Washington, D.C., Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands have set higher minimums, and some cities have enacted their own minimum wage hikes. Washington state currently has the highest statewide minimum wage at $13.69, while the wage is $15 in Washington, D.C. ##### Impact of Minimum Wage Increase As we said, raising the minimum wage as Biden proposes would lift some workers out of poverty, and raise the wages of millions more. But it also would cause job losses, according to a Feb. 8 report by the CBO. That also contradicts Biden’s claim in the CBS News interview that working up to a $15 minimum wage “all the economics show, if you do that, the whole economy rises.” The Washington Post Fact Checker wrote about that claim, explaining that economists disagree on the impact of a minimum wage hike, with liberal economists finding little to no job loss but competing research concluding employment would decline. The CBO estimated the effects of a Senate bill to increase the federal minimum wage annually, reaching $15 an hour by June 2025. In that year, the number of people in poverty would decline by 900,000, but employment would also drop by 1.4 million people, according to CBO’s average estimate. The report said there is a 33% chance that between zero and 1 million jobs would be lost, and a 33% chance that between 1 million and 2.7 million jobs would be lost. The “17 million workers whose wages would otherwise be below $15 per hour would be directly affected, and many of the 10 million workers whose wages would otherwise be slightly above that wage rate would also be affected,” the CBO said. Among the 10 million workers, “wages for many of those workers would increase as employers sought to retain some of the differences in pay that had previously existed among those workers.” The Economic Policy Institute, which receives some of its funding from labor unions, analyzed the same congressional proposal as the CBO but found more workers would see higher wages. It estimated the legislation would raise the pay of nearly 32 million workers and “meaningfully reduce the number of families in poverty.” EPI also argues that a single, full-time worker without kids needs $15 an hour “to achieve a modest but adequate standard of living.” Biden worded his claim differently in remarks on Jan. 22. He said: “No one in America should work 40 hours a week making below the poverty line. Fifteen dollars gets people above the poverty line. We have so many millions of people working 40 hours a week — working — and some with two jobs, and they’re still below the poverty line.” A $15 minimum wage would get some people “above the poverty line,” as the CBO report shows. But not everyone earning under $15 is below the poverty guidelines. Editor’s note: FactCheck.org does not accept advertising. We rely on grants and individual donations from people like you. Please consider a donation. Credit card donations may be made through our “Donate” page. 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No one should work 40 hours a week and live below the poverty wage And if you’re making less than 15 an hour you’re living below the poverty wage

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It does not represent all non-domestic transmission and it is misleading to suggest this. __1 of 2 claims > “NEU analysis of ONS figures shows that virus levels are now 9 times higher > amongst primary pupils and an astonishing 50 times higher amongst secondary > pupils.” > > National Educational Union, 2 November 2020. > “Just 4% of infections outside the home trace back to pubs and restaurants. > But by contrast, 38% of infections are caught in schools, by far the biggest > means of transmission.” > > Skwawkbox, 9 October 2020. As England prepares for another lockdown, but this time with educational settings remaining open, our readers have asked us about claims around the levels of coronavirus transmission in schools. We’ve written about the evidence on how Covid-19 is transmitted in schools before. Honesty in public debate matters You can help us take action – and get our regular free email Sign up ## The NEU figures on secondary school infections The National Education Union (NEU) is campaigning for schools and further education colleges to close during the lockdown. The union has said that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates 1% of primary school pupils and 2% of secondary school pupils have the virus. It also claims that virus levels are now nine times higher amongst primary school pupils and 50 times higher amongst secondary pupils than they were in September. According to ONS data, this is correct. The latest ONS coronavirus infection survey found that older teenagers and young adults “continue to have the highest positivity rates, while rates appear to be steeply increasing among secondary school children.” ONS data shows that, as of 23 October, an estimated 2.01% of pupils in England between Year 7 and Year 11 tested positive for Covid-19. On 1 September this rate was 0.04%, so the NEU is right that there has been a fiftyfold increase. The data also shows that 1.04% of children aged between two years-old and school Year 6 in England have tested positive for coronavirus by 23 October. Primary school pupils are included within this bracket, but it is worth noting that not all of the children in this category are primary school-aged. On 1 September this rate was 0.11%. ## Skwawkbox claims on school transmission Our readers have also asked us to check a blog post from Skwawkbox, which claimed that 38% of infections caught outside the home are in schools, compared to 4% in pubs and restaurants. When this article was published on 9 October, the latest weekly Public Health England (PHE) Covid-19 surveillance report said educational settings accounted for the 38% of Covid-19 acute respiratory infection (ARI) incidents reported to Health Protection Teams. However, ARI incidents are reported based on situations where two or more laboratory confirmed cases are linked to a particular setting, or an outbreak is suspected. This means that the data does not cover all Covid-19 cases linked to settings outside of the home, such as isolated cases. It also doesn’t necessarily mean that if a case was linked to, say, a school, that it would have been caught in a school. Therefore it’s incorrect to claim that 38% of all non-domestic infections are caught in schools. It’s also important to note that “educational settings” does not only cover schools in this case, but also colleges and universities. PHE also notes that a national school helpline began operating on 17 September, and a universities helpline on 7 October, which it said “is likely to have had an impact on the number of situations/outbreaks being reported”. 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Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info ### I would like to contribute One Time Monthly Yearly Join Now ![](\\" ![](\\" Clay Higgins stated on November 15, 2023 in a congressional hearing: A \"ghost bus … filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capitol on January 6th.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" false/33efdb6633e5e2fdc2d4e2f63383a1e0.jpg.\\") ![\\"false\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") * Crime * Jan. 6 * Clay Higgins ![\\"Rioters](\\" Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP) ![\\"Madison](\\" By Madison Czopek November 21, 2023 ![\\"Amy](\\" By Amy Sherman November 21, 2023 # Why a Republican\'s claim about ‘ghost buses’ of FBI informants on Jan. 6 is dubious #### If Your Time is short * Hundreds of rioters, many wearing Trump-branded apparel, stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. * Experts said they were unfamiliar with the term \"ghost bus\" and that there are reasons the FBI would not bus a group of informants to an event. * FBI Director Christopher Wray testified Nov. 15 that the agency’s sources and agents were not responsible for violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. See the sources for this fact-check Nearly three years after the violent breach on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a lawmaker presented FBI director Christopher Wray with a new theory about how people arrived at the Capitol that day. \"Do you know what a ‘ghost vehicle’ is?\" Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., asked during a Nov. 15 House Committee on Homeland Security hearing. \"You’re the director of the FBI, you certainly should. Do you know what a ‘ghost bus’ is?\" Wray said he wasn’t familiar with the term. Higgins expounded. \"These (ghost) buses are nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters, deployed onto our Capitol on Jan. 6,\" Higgins said. Higgins said that he had long sought a \"definitive answer\" from federal officials about whether FBI confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters were at the Capitol. But he barely gave Wray time to answer. \"If you are asking whether the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources or agents, the answer is an emphatic no,\" Wray said before Higgins cut him off. Numerous investigations into what happened Jan. 6, 2021, including by a congressional committee, have found the attack on the U.S. Capitol was orchestrated and carried out by people who supported Donald Trump’s presidency and believed or pushed false claims that the 2020 election was \"stolen.\" Evidence from court documents — including information that led to charges against 1,200 defendants, more than half of whom have been found guilty so far — shows, person-by-person, who ransacked the Capitol and fought with police officers. The rioters’ goal was preventing Congress from accepting the results of the election showing that Trump had lost. In 17 key findings, the House committee investigating the attack determined Trump himself disseminated false allegations about the election and summoned supporters to the Capitol and directed them to \"take back\" the country. Higgins’ statement about a \"ghost bus\" furthers the falsehood that FBI agents \"intentionally entrapped\" Americans, instigated or orchestrated the Capitol attack. Although evidence shows FBI informants were at the Capitol that day, none shows informants instigated the violence that followed. Experts familiar with the FBI told PolitiFact they were unfamiliar with the term \"ghost bus.\" They said it would make no sense for the FBI to pack informants into a bus together because that would draw attention to them and they generally work independently. On Jan. 6, 2021, Higgins wrote on Twitter that \"violence and lawlessness\" was unacceptable. Since then, he has used his influence to request leniency for the people arrested in the Capitol attack and in June accused the Justice Department of wanting \"J6 again,\" saying it had targeted Trump supporters with \"persecution and further entrapment.\" Higgins did not respond to PolitiFact’s request for comment. But he told HuffPost that the buses unloaded men with muscular physiques dressed as Trump supporters, and the buses were abandoned in the garage. \"They orchestrated what they orchestrated and don’t put words in my mouth,\" Higgins told HuffPost. The FBI directed PolitiFact to Wray’s testimony that FBI sources and agents did not incite violence at the Capitol. What is a ‘ghost bus’? Explaining \"ghost bus\" during the Nov. 15 hearing, Higgins, a former sheriff’s office captain, said it is \"pretty common in law enforcement,\" for vehicles to be \"painted over\" and \"used for secret purposes.\" Higgins pointed to a photo board with an image of buses in a parking garage, singling out two buses he said were \"painted completely white\" and the first to arrive at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station on Jan. 6, 2021. But experts, including an FBI spokesperson, told PolitiFact the term \"ghost bus\" was unfamiliar. We searched Google and the Nexis database for use of the term \"ghost bus\" from before Higgins made the claim and found no FBI-related references. One common use of the term refers to a frustrating public transportation phenomenon, in which an online application shows that a bus has nearly arrived — only for it to abruptly disappear or report significant delays. Searches for \"stealth vehicle\" revealed a law enforcement connotation: Some police departments use vehicles for covert operations that are emblazoned with stealth graphics they describe as \"ghost graphics\" because they blend in with the vehicle’s paint color, making them harder to see. Journalist Trevor Aaronson, who writes for The Intercept and has reported on the FBI for years, told PolitiFact the agency has undercover vehicles but that he had \"never heard of the FBI using buses specifically.\" He also said the FBI wouldn’t collectively bus informants to an event. #### Featured Fact-check ![](\\" ![](\\" Donald Trump stated on August 23, 2024 in a campaign event in Glendale, Ariz. “There’s been a 43% increase in violent crimes since I left office.” ![\\"true\\"](\\" mostly-false/6a6ef6075c162fdccf5eb960e683dcd1.jpg.\\") ![\\"barely- true\\"](\\" false.jpg\\") By Louis Jacobson • September 4, 2024 \"Informants don\'t know who the other informants are,\" Aaronson said in an email. \"This sometimes results in comic situations for the FBI: Informants start targeting other informants in investigations. So the idea that the FBI arranged some sort of field trip with a bunch of informants? Absurd.\" Mike German worked 16 years for the FBI, including 12 as an undercover agent investigating white supremacists and far-right groups. He said he also had never heard the term \"ghost bus\" and found the notion of putting \"a bunch of undercover agents or FBI informants together on a bus to send them to a rally\" to be \"ludicrous from a covert operations perspective.\" \"When you are doing undercover work you are trying to blend in,\" said German, who wrote a book critical of the FBI and now works for the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. German said that FBI informants generally work alone. And though he has heard of perhaps two or three working together, a bus full would be \"highly unlikely.\" What we know about Jan. 6, 2021, rioters Numerous federal investigations and years of reporting on the attack have not revealed evidence to support the conspiracy theory that the Capitol attack was a false flag event orchestrated by the FBI to entrap Trump supporters. Court filings, news reports and other information for hundreds of Jan. 6, 2021, defendants show that many considered their actions patriotic; they believed they were on the front lines of a revolution or civil war. Rioters scaled walls, broke windows, forced their way into the building and clashed with police. Among people sentenced for seditious conspiracy are multiple members of far- right groups including the Proud Boys extremist group and militia groups including the Oath Keepers. These groups, and other Americans, responded to Trump’s invitations to convene on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. ![](\\" In this Jan. 6, 2021 photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as President in Washington. (AP) The FBI’s role on Jan. 6, 2021 Government reports have criticized the FBI for failing to sound the alarm about Jan. 6, 2021, despite repeated tips in the preceding weeks that violence could occur. Steven D’Antuono, the former assistant director-in-charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, told the House Judiciary Committee in June that the agency had maybe a \"handful\" of informants present in the crowd on Jan. 6, 2021 — some the agency knew about ahead of time, some it did not. When asked about the theory that the FBI directed the attack, he replied \"that is furthest from the truth.\" Allegations that FBI informants played a key role in the day’s events have proved to be false. One viral claim repeated by some lawmakers involved Ray Epps, an Arizona man whom some people had identified as a possible undercover FBI agent or informant. But no evidence supported that claim and Epps’ own statements to the House committee investigating the attack rebutted it. The New York Times reported in 2021 that confidential records showed that the FBI had an informant in the crowd among the Proud Boys as its members marched to the Capitol. The informant texted his FBI handler during the day. Proud Boys’ defense attorneys claimed in court filings that there may have been eight informants inside the group in the months surrounding the attack. But evidence singled out Proud Boys, not FBI agents, for their actions: In May, a jury found former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members guilty of seditious conspiracy for their role in the day’s events. ![](\\" Supporters of former President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP) Our ruling Higgins said a \"ghost bus ... filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capitol on January 6th.\" FBI experts said they were unfamiliar with the term \"ghost bus,\" and cast doubt on the idea that the agency would pack informants onto a bus. Such a scenario would challenge informants’ ability to be inconspicuous and gather information independently. Higgins’ statement furthers the falsehood that FBI agents instigated or orchestrated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Numerous investigations into the day’s events, including a congressional review and federal cases involving 1,200 defendants, many of whom have been found guilty, show the attack was led by and executed by people who believed or perpetuated false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. There has been no credible evidence to support that the violence carried out at the Capitol that day was the work of the FBI. The onus is on Higgins to back up his statement with evidence, and he has failed to do that. We rate this statement False. PolitiFact Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report. 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NOTA numbers in Karnataka Election NOTA accounted for just over 3 lakh votes in this election which is 0.9% of the total votes polled. The 0.9% for NOTA in the 2018 Karnataka election is on the lower side when compared to the votes polled for NOTA in other state elections. For instance, NOTA polled 1.8% of the votes in Gujarat (2017), 2.5% in Bihar (2015) and 1.52% in West Bengal (2016). NOTA polled the highest in Bangalore South constituency. Here, NOTA polled 15829 votes and was in the 4th place after the three major parties. In 28 other constituencies, NOTA polled more than 2000 votes. Majority of these constituencies are in the urban areas.![\\"\\"](\\" content/uploads//2018/05/NOTA-2018-Karnataka.png\\") How many seats did BJP lose where NOTA vote was more than the margin? As per data released by the Election Commission of India (ECI), NOTA vote was more than the victory margin in only seven (7) constituencies in Karnataka. These include Aland, Badami, Gadag, Hirekerur, Kungdol, Maski and Pavagada. Out of these constituencies, six were won by the Congress while Aland was won by the BJP.![\\"\\"](\\" Victory-margin-2018-Karnataka.png\\") What about seats in the Bengaluru region? The 2nd claim is about BJP losing 6 such seats in the Bengaluru area. Out of the 28 seats in the Bengaluru region, elections were held in 26 while elections to two other seats were postponed. Out of the 26, BJP won 11 seats, Congress 13 seats and JD(S) won the remaining 2 seats. Out of the seats won by Congress & JD(S), there was not a single seat where the margin was less than the NOTA vote. In fact, except in Vijay Nagar, the margin exceeded the NOTA vote by at least 1000 votes. In Vijay Nagar, the margin exceeded the NOTA vote by 808 votes. Show 102550100 entries Search: Name of the Constituency| Winning Party| NOTA| Margin of Victory ---|---|---|--- Yelahanka| BJP| 2051| 42503 K.R.Puram| Congress| 2464| 32729 Byatarayanapura| Congress| 2154| 5671 Yeshvanthapura| Congress| 1453| 10711 Dasarahalli| JD(S)| 2011| 10675 Mahalakshmi Layout| JD(S)| 1739| 41100 Malleshwaram| BJP| 2157| 54000 Hebbal| Congress| 1450| 21140 Pulakeshinagar| Congress| 1402| 81626 Sarvagnanagar| Congress| 2405| 53304 Showing 1 to 10 of 26 entries PreviousNext Fact Check – Claim 1 The claim that BJP lost 13 seats where the margin is less than NOTA is WRONG. As noted above, BJP lost only 6 seats where the margin is less than NOTA. Fact Check – Claim 2 The claim that the BJP lost 6 seats in Bengaluru region where the margin is less than NOTA is also WRONG. As explained above, BJP did not lose a single seat in Bengaluru where margin was less than NOTA. ![\\"Factly\\"](\\" WhatsApp-channel-minified-scaled.jpeg\\") Share. 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Some Republicans have misleadingly suggested that the amount of drugs seized is a negative development attributable to the immigration policies of President Joe Biden. But the steep rise started in mid-2020 under then-President Donald Trump. Rep. Elise Stefanik, chair of the House Republican Conference, was one of the Republicans citing fentanyl seizures in October as a sign of “Biden’s Border Crisis,” even though more pounds of illegal fentanyl were seized by border officials the previous October when Trump was president. > Over 800 pounds of fentanyl were seized at our Southern Border in October. > > This is Biden’s Border Crisis. > > — Rep. Elise Stefanik (@RepStefanik) November 29, 2021 Weeks earlier, on Nov. 1, Sen. Chuck Grassley, who is the co-chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, tweeted: “Welcome 2 Pres Biden’s America where 10,000 pounds of fentanyl hv been seized by Customs & Border patrol so far this fiscal yr which is enough to kill over 2 billion ppl or more than 1/4 of the world’s population.” There were 899 pounds of fentanyl seized at the border with Mexico in October, as Stefanik said, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It’s also plausible, as Grassley tweeted, that 10,000 pounds of pure, high- concentration fentanyl would be enough to cause the deaths of billions, assuming a fatal dose for most people is just 2 milligrams, as the U.S. Drug and Enforcement Administration has said. However, the DEA also said that much of the illegally made fentanyl being seized, particularly at the southwest border, has a very low concentration. “The stuff that’s seized at the southwest border is highly impure,” Bryce Pardo, a drug policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, told FactCheck.org in an interview. If they are seizing 10,000 pounds, the amount of pure fentanyl is a small fraction of that, he said. More important, if stopping large amounts of fentanyl from being distributed to Americans is indicative of a “crisis” at the southwest border, as those tweets imply, it’s a problem that Biden largely inherited from his predecessor. Border officials seized nearly as much fentanyl in the last nine full months of Trump’s presidency as had been seized during the first nine full months of Biden’s. ## Fentanyl Seizures Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that the DEA says is many times stronger than morphine and heroin. Pharmaceutical fentanyl is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a pain reliever and anesthetic, historically for use by cancer patients and during or after surgery. But the drug also is illegally manufactured in liquid, powder and pill form and trafficked into the U.S. from countries such as China, India and Mexico. CBP data show the amount of fentanyl seized at the southwest border — where well over 90% of total seizures occur — has more than doubled each fiscal year since 2019, when 2,633 pounds were confiscated. The vast majority of the illicit fentanyl is discovered during vehicle inspections at ports of entry by CBP’s Office of Field Operations. Smaller amounts are regularly found by agents for the U.S. Border Patrol at interior checkpoints and during apprehensions of people who illegally cross the border between the legal ports. The amount seized accelerated dramatically toward the end of fiscal 2020, while Trump was still president, when there was a 190% increase from 233 pounds seized in May to 676 pounds in June. May 2020 was the last time there were fewer than 600 pounds of fentanyl seized at the southwest border in a single month, and the largest monthly haul to date was 1,171 pounds in October 2020, the start of the 2021 fiscal year. In fact, southwest border officers seized 6,408 pounds of fentanyl from April 2020 to December 2020, the last full nine months of the Trump administration. That is about 83% of the 7,684 pounds seized from February 2021 to October 2021, the first full nine months of the Biden administration, which is the most recent CBP data available. An additional 682 pounds were seized in January 2021, when Trump was president for about 20 days. ## ‘Biden’s Border Crisis’? Republicans other than Stefanik and Grassley also have framed the increase in the amount of fentanyl being seized as a cause for concern and a failure of the Biden administration. Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, tweeted on Nov. 18, “899 lbs of fentanyl and 15,631 lbs of methamphetamine were seized at the southern border in October alone. That much fentanyl is the equivalent of 204 MILLION lethal doses. We need border security!” Later that month, on Nov. 29, Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana tweeted, “.@CBP seized enough fentanyl to kill the entire U.S. population 7 times over at the border THIS YEAR. When will Biden prioritize the safety of Americans? We need to #BuildTheWall.” We’ve already reported the reasons some experts doubt that a border wall would have much of an impact on smuggling — starting with the fact that much of the illicit drugs are known to come through legal ports of entry, as our chart above illustrates. In addition, as we noted earlier, Pardo from the RAND Corporation told us that lethality estimates are a “little bit misleading” because it assumes the seized fentanyl is 100% pure, which it is not. “It’s highly, highly impure stuff,” he said. But one also might wonder: Why is seizing more fentanyl an indictment of border security, rather than a sign that border security is working as intended? The RNC’s rapid response director, Tommy Pigott, described the GOP’s position in a Nov. 18 blog post criticizing “misguided” Democrats who have mocked the Republican claims and applauded the large amounts of fentanyl being impounded. “As anyone who pays even the smallest attention to the border knows, fentanyl seizures are used as a proxy for illicit drug trafficking,” Pigott said. “In other words, more seizures means more fentanyl is being smuggled across the border into the U.S., not less.” “This shows how little Democrats know about the border, and how little the American people can trust them to address the crisis Biden created,” he wrote. Sen. Rob Portman, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, raised a similar point about the level of undetected drugs in a Nov. 17 Senate hearing, in which he referenced the more than 40% increase in fentanyl seized at the southwest border this year, from September to October. “Can you give us a sense of what you think the amount of drugs are that are coming in that are not being seized?” Portman asked Diane Sabatino, deputy executive assistant commissioner for the Office of Field Operations. “If it’s 42% increase in seizures, what is it overall?” Sabatino did not provide a figure at the hearing, nor did CBP respond when we contacted its press office for this story. It’s likely the answer is unknowable. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service has said that, while the seizures data can help determine how and where illicit drugs enter the country, “There are no comprehensive data on the total quantity of foreign- produced illicit drugs smuggled into the United States at or between official ports of entry (POEs) because these are drugs that have generally evaded seizure by border officials.” “And because we can’t measure total flow, it’s pointless to try to say we’re doing a good job or a bad job,” Pardo said. “My sense is that drug trafficking organizations in Mexico are increasing their fentanyl production because it’s cheap, it’s easy to do and it’s more profitable than heroin in the short term. So, it’s likely that flows are increasing, but we don’t know that for sure.” He said fentanyl seizures also may have increased because the U.S., due to COVID-19, restricted inbound land border crossings from Mexico for all but essential travel. “Because of that, you’ve essentially doubled your enforcement capacity if you’ve essentially restricted the movement of people, but you have the same amount of officers on the front lines there,” he said. “That’s probably one reason why we’re seeing more seizures. It remains to be seen what happens now that you’ve opened up the border, but that could be one of the contributing factors.” Portman and other GOP lawmakers also have linked more fentanyl seizures to a nationwide increase in overdose deaths. “Over 100,000 people in the last year have died from drug overdoses,” Rep. John Katko, the ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said in a Nov. 28 interview, referencing provisional figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicating there were that many fatalities from April 2020 to April 2021. “The vast majority of them had been laced with fentanyl. They seized enough fentanyl at the border in the last year to kill every man, woman and child in the United States seven times over. Think about that,” Katko said. “And, given the fact that we seize that much, I know for a fact that when you seize that much, that much more is getting through. So, it’s a crisis that this administration has created, and he is not doing anything about it.” The CDC predicts that almost two-thirds of the overdose deaths were due to synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl. However, Biden was president for only three of the months in that one-year period. The CDC’s figures also show there were already about 95,000 overdose deaths from January 2020 to January 2021. In addition, border officials were on pace to seize record levels of fentanyl in fiscal 2021 prior to Biden taking office. An average of almost 1,040 pounds of the drug per month were seized at the southwest border during the first quarter of that fiscal cycle, from October 2020 to December 2020. The per month average under Biden has been about 854 pounds seized. Republicans may not agree with Biden’s approach on border security, or think he has done enough to reduce the flow of deadly drugs into the country. 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Over 800 pounds of fentanyl were seized at our Southern Border in October This is Biden’s Border Crisis

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Thousands of people are sitting on the road This picture is from Delhi where the farmers have reached during the protest

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