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“$5,000 a year" is "the burden of Joe Biden’s inflation tax on Wisconsin families.”
Ron Johnson U.S. Senator. campaign TV ad. Claim dated 22 Jun 2022.
FactCheck.org rated thisMisleading

What FactCheck.org found

That's an estimate for how much more a U.S. household, on average, would have to spend for the same basket of goods in 2022, compared with last year, due to inflation. There's no breakdown by various inflation causes.

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Ron Johnson (U.S. Senator) made this claim around 22 June 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 June 2022, 8 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.

Ron Johnson has 43 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 21 misleading or mixed and 1 true.

This check was done by FactCheck.org, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.