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Checked by FactCheck.org11 Nov 2021United StatesEconomy and jobs
Lindsey Graham, U.S. senator

“But the House Democrats are saying openly that the tax credit for electric vehicles under their construct, the $4,500, the big part of it, will only be eligible for companies that hire union workers.”

FactCheck.org rated this: We Explain the Proposal

FactCheck.org says: The House's Build Back Better plan calls for extending a $7,500 tax credit for the purchase of electric vehicles, and it includes an additional $4,500 credit for electric vehicles built in the U.S. by union labor.

Checked by Washington Post10 Nov 2021United States
Pete Buttigieg, Transportation Secretary

“If an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach — or that would’ve been — in New York was — was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices.”

Washington Post rated this: Historians doubt

Washington Post says: This is a famous anecdote from Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses but it remains unconfirmed and historians increasingly doubt it.

Checked by FactCheck.org10 Nov 2021United StatesHealth
Ben Swann, Conservative commentator

“Statistically, the numbers" of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths "are pretty much the same as they were before the vaccine.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Spins the Facts

FactCheck.org says: The COVID-19 death rate for the unvaccinated is higher than the vaccinated. But Ben Swann claims that vaccines aren’t effective. But the charts he uses don’t distinguish between vaccinated and unvaccinated patients.