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Checked by FactCheck.org11 Mar 2021United States Crime and security

John Barrasso, U.S. senator

“American Rescue Plan Act stimulus checks are "going to people in prison, they’re going to people who are illegal immigrants.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Spins the Facts

FactCheck.org says: Two relief bills he voted for last year included stimulus checks and didn’t prohibit payments to prisoners. The bills included the same language denying checks to “any nonresident alien individual."