“Democrats have accomplished a lot in just 2 months ... 1 Million energy jobs destroyed.”
Kevin McCarthy
House Minority Leader. In a tweet and an interview on Fox News.. Claim dated 14 Mar 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
What PolitiFact found
McCarthy distorted the results of a forecast based on a different policy than is currently in place.
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In short
Kevin McCarthy (House Minority Leader) made this claim around 14 March 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 March 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Kevin McCarthy has 34 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 20 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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