“More than 91% of the spending in this $1.9 trillion package is not used for pandemic relief.”
What PolitiFact found
About 9% of the American Rescue Plan funding is slated for direct COVID-19 intervention such as vaccines and testing. But the vast majority is related to pandemic relief, 85% by the calculations of one nonpartisan group.
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In short
Scott Fitzgerald (U.S. Rep., R-Wisconsin) made this claim around 27 February 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 March 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Scott Fitzgerald has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- fitzgerald.house.govhttps://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-fitzgerald-votes-no-pelosis…
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