“Our very first bill will repeal the funding for 87,000 new IRS agents.”
Kevin McCarthy
House Speaker (R-Calif.). in remarks on the House floor. Claim dated 7 Jan 2023.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
This claim has been repeatedly debunked.
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In short
Kevin McCarthy (House Speaker (R-Calif.)) made this claim around 7 January 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 January 2023, 3 days later. Its rating was “Four 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.
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