“Just in the last four years that Democrats were in the majority, they increased discretionary spending by 30 percent. When Republicans were in the majority for the eight years prior, they didn’t increase it by $1.”
What Washington Post found
McCarthy is relying on a technicality here but he is ignoring what Republican leaders actually did when they controlled Congress.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kevin McCarthy (House Speaker (R-Calif.)) made this claim around 15 January 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 January 2023, 4 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Kevin McCarthy has 34 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 20 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- foxnews.comhttps://www.foxnews.com/video/6318725351112
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