“Democrats voted to send reopening money to schools that refuse to reopen.”
Marco Rubio
Republican senator from Florida. In a tweet.. Claim dated 6 Mar 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
What PolitiFact found
Schools don't necessarily refuse to open; some reopened partially and then retrenched when infections spiked.
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In short
Marco Rubio (Republican senator from Florida) made this claim around 6 March 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 March 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Marco Rubio has 16 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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