“It used to take 17 years, 18 years, 20 years, 21 years … to get approval to build a highway,” but “[w]e have it down to two years now, we’re going to have it down to one.”
What FactCheck.org found
Federal data show it took a median of 3.83 years in fiscal 2019 for projects yo complete environmental impact statements. That’s the same or a bit longer than it took during the last five years of the Obama admin.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 24 August 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 August 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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