“A study shows that households neighboring West Virginia could be on the hook for upwards of $70,000 in the first year alone under the Green New Deal!”
Shelley Moore Capito
U.S. Senator, R-W.Va.. a Facebook post. Claim dated 20 Aug 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
In short
Shelley Moore Capito (U.S. Senator, R-W.Va.) made this claim around 20 August 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 October 2019, 49 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Shelley Moore Capito has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
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