“At the end of the year, we put into that federal pot $116 billion more than we take out,” while Kentucky “takes out $148 billion more than they put in.”
Andrew Cuomo
Governor of New York. in a news conference. Claim dated 23 Apr 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
What PolitiFact found
Cuomo was right on the numbers, wrong on the timeframe.
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In short
Andrew Cuomo (Governor of New York) made this claim around 23 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 May 2020, 12 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Andrew Cuomo has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
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