“Catherine Cortez Masto "was the deciding vote” to send COVID-19 stimulus checks to more than 1 million prisoners.”
What PolitiFact found
Her vote was not the deciding vote. She did nothing, such as withholding her support until the last moment, that would justify singling her out.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Club for Growth Action (Super PAC) made this claim around 21 October 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 October 2022, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Club for Growth Action has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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