“Jim Justice “broke his pledge, raised the gas tax.”
What PolitiFact found
Justice signed a gasoline tax increase in 2017, about six years before he signed a taxpayer protection pledge. He couldn’t have broken a pledge he hadn’t signed yet.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Alex Mooney (U.S. Representative, R-W.Va.) made this claim around 2 November 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 November 2023, 19 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Alex Mooney has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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