“Ruben Gallego wanted to defund the police. He actually co-sponsored legislation to defund the police.”
What PolitiFact found
Gallego co-sponsored a 2019 bill that would have curbed transfers of military-grade weapons to police departments. But this is a different issue and it occurred the year before "defund the police" became a rallying cry.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kari Lake (U.S. Senate candidate, R-Ariz.) made this claim around 23 October 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 October 2024, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Kari Lake has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 7 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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