“American Rescue Plan Act stimulus checks are "going to people in prison, they’re going to people who are illegal immigrants.”
What FactCheck.org found
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."
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In short
John Barrasso (U.S. senator) made this claim around 7 March 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 March 2021, 4 days later. Its rating was “Spins the Facts”.
John Barrasso has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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