“Instead of fighting opioid addiction, a nonprofit founded by J.D. Vance paid his “top political adviser” and funded “political polling.”
What PolitiFact found
In 2017, the year a nonprofit Vance formed to fight opioid abuse was most active, it spent nearly half of its receipts to pay a Vance political adviser to be executive director and to pay for a survey.
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In short
Tim Ryan (U.S. representative, D-Ohio) made this claim around 19 July 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 July 2022, 8 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Tim Ryan has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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