“In the time it’s going to take me to deliver this speech, we’ll go up another $20 million in debt.”
What PolitiFact found
The federal debt goes up by a lot every 20 minutes, and if you look at averages, the increase over that period is more than four times higher than what Johnson said.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Mike Johnson (House speaker) made this claim around 25 October 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 October 2023, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Mike Johnson has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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