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Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator, R-Texas

“In 2013, under a Democratic Senate, "a majority of the Senate voted in favor of" gun-related legislation sponsored by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ted Cruz, “but the Democrats filibustered it.”

PolitiFact rated this: Half True

PolitiFact says: Democrats did set a supermajority threshold, but only after Republicans pledged to filibuster the underlying bill, and Republicans unanimously agreed to the voting plan.

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“Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman commented – “My family buys groceries and other things with Indian rupees, we do not use US dollars. Why should we be concerned about dollar value then?”

FACTLY rated this: FALSE

FACTLY says: No such comments have been made by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The picture in the post was taken from her speech in Lok Sabha on 04 December 2019. She did not make such statements in Lok Sabha on that day