“I'm going to share a story that I heard secondhand, so I can't verify it. But there was a Top Gun, a fighter pilot, who said that his least favorite time of the year is at the end of the fiscal year, because he flies over the Pacific Ocean and dumps oil into the ocean. ... Because they have to use all the oil that's budgeted, or else they won't get the same amount budgeted the following year.”
Andrew Yang
Democratic presidential candidate. CNN town hall. Claim dated 4 Sep 2019.
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In short
Andrew Yang (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 4 September 2019. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 September 2019, 9 days later. Its rating was “No Evidence”.
Andrew Yang has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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