“Only about 6% of the president’s proposal actually goes" to infrastructure, meaning "water, wastewater ... highways, roads, bridges, perhaps broadband.”
John Thune
U.S. senator. Fox News interview. Claim dated 11 Apr 2021.
FactCheck.org rated this6% is too low
What FactCheck.org found
Thune’s low figure doesn’t hold up when we counted the very things that Thune describes as infrastructure, which add up to nearly 17% of the total spending.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
John Thune (U.S. senator) made this claim around 11 April 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 April 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “6% is too low”.
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- foxnews.comhttps://www.foxnews.com/transcript/pete-buttigieg-on-opposition-to-bidens-massive-infrast…
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