“More than half of the $739 billion tax increase (in the Inflation Reduction Act) will go to wasteful Green New Deal programs like tree equity, 'clean' garbage trucks, and studying cow farts.”
Citizens Against Government Waste
advocacy group. a Facebook ad. Claim dated 31 Aug 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
The bill’s environmental provisions do add up to $391 billion, or more than half of $739 billion. However, the amount spent on trees, clean trucks and cattle emissions account for a tiny fraction of that.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Citizens Against Government Waste (advocacy group) made this claim around 31 August 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 October 2022, 55 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_type=political_and_issue_ads&c…
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