“Joe Biden closed schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
What PolitiFact found
Schools closed in March 2020 while Donald Trump was president under the orders of state officials or governors. In 2021, local officials or governors made the school reopening decisions -- not Biden.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Lauren Boebert (U.S. Representative, R-Colo.) made this claim around 7 February 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 February 2023, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Lauren Boebert has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 0 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.
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