“Only in Washington can you cut funding, add a pay-for to a new spending measure, and they say it's terrible for the deficit.”
What PolitiFact found
The Congressional Budget Office’s long-standing practice has been to classify cuts to the IRS’ enforcement budget — which decrease collections — as reducing tax revenue. Businesses use the same logic.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Mike Johnson (House speaker) made this claim around 5 November 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 November 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Mike Johnson has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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