“Extreme MAGA Republicans want to ban books” on the Holocaust, Martin Luther King Jr., the LGBTQ journey, “Roberto Clemente and baseball" and the Native American experience.”
What PolitiFact found
House Republicans unanimously rejected an amendment to a parents’ rights bill that would have added language preventing the “banning or censorship of books in public elementary or public secondary schools.”
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In short
Hakeem Jeffries (House Democratic Leader) made this claim around 24 March 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 March 2023, 6 days later. Its rating was “GOP votes provide evidence”.
Hakeem Jeffries has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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