“Congress' 2024 federal spending bill includes $400,000 for "a group to give clothes to teens to help them hide their gender.”
What PolitiFact found
The funding is for Briarpatch Youth Services, a Madison, Wisconsin, nonprofit that runs a youth homeless shelter. The earmark can be used only for mental health services and counseling for kids experiencing homelessness.
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In short
Jesse Watters (Fox News host) made this claim around 21 March 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 April 2024, 11 days later. Its rating was “This claim is inaccurate”.
Jesse Watters has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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