“(Republicans) have the power to overturn the (state of emergency) order by joint resolution and they refuse to do it.”
What PolitiFact found
State law lets the Legislature end any emergency order with a simple majority vote, and Republicans control both the Senate and the Assembly. But the bodies have chosen not to convene.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Chris Larson (State Sen., D-Milwaukee) made this claim around 23 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 September 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “True”.
Chris Larson has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
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