“Republicans used it in 2017 to pass the GOP tax scam, where 83 percent of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 percent and they saddled us with approximately $2 trillion in debt to subsidize the lifestyle of the rich and shameless.”
What Washington Post found
He's using a number for 2027 -- far in the future -- that only emerges because of a quirk in how the bill was drafted.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Hakeem Jeffries (Member of the House (D-N.Y.)) made this claim around 14 July 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 July 2021, 6 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Hakeem Jeffries has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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