“Just in the last four years, $80 billion in federal funding has come to West Virginia — $22 billion more than we've ever received.”
What PolitiFact found
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., actually understated the flow of federal money. West Virginia has received $92.4 billion in federal funds from 2020-2023.
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In short
Joe Manchin (U.S. Senator, D-W.Va.) made this claim around 2 September 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 October 2023, 33 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Joe Manchin has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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