“54 senators said, let's do background checks, let's get rid of assault weapons, and with 54 senators it failed because of the filibuster.”
Elizabeth Warren
U.S. Senator, D-Mass.. Claim dated 12 Sep 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
In short
Elizabeth Warren (U.S. Senator, D-Mass.) made this claim around 12 September 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 September 2019, 1 day later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Elizabeth Warren has 28 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
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