“But how did we get into this debt? It’s not the result of some mysterious, cosmic force that nobody could have prevented. It’s the result of giant tax cuts on corporations and the wealthy.”
Pete Buttigieg
Democratic candidate for president. Ottumwa, Iowa town hall. Claim dated 28 Jan 2020.
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Pete Buttigieg (Democratic candidate for president) made this claim around 28 January 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 January 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Exaggerates”.
Pete Buttigieg has 33 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 17 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
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