“But you know what Mitch McConnell said recently about helping the states and cities [during the pandemic]. He said, quote, ‘Let them go bankrupt.’”
What FactCheck.org found
McConnell said bankruptcy should be a legal option for states facing money woes unrelated to the coronavirus, such as debt due to pension programs.
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In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 12 October 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 October 2020, 10 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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