“Federal “agencies and government have grown 50% since 2019.”
What PolitiFact found
Federal spending is on track to grow 43% to 55% over 2019 levels by 2024, depending on the metric. But spending is an imperfect way to measure the size of "agencies and government."
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron DeSantis (GOP presidential candidate) made this claim around 9 July 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 July 2023, 4 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Ron DeSantis has 64 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 38 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbv1GnCejg&t=415s
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