“Federal aid for state and local governments through a proposed coronavirus relief bill would amount to “half of what the Republicans put onto the national debt.”
What PolitiFact found
Pelosi's statement has merit, but it doesn't tell the full picture about what has caused increases in the national debt since 2017.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Nancy Pelosi (Speaker of the House) made this claim around 28 June 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 July 2020, 9 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Nancy Pelosi has 17 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- abcnews.go.comhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-28-20-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi/story?id…
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