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“Says Donald Trump “proposes cutting a half a billion dollars of local police support.”
Joe Biden Democratic presidential nominee. In an interview with ABC News. Claim dated 23 Aug 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True

What PolitiFact found

The Trump administration budget proposal would reduce state and local law enforcement spending by about $515 million.

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 23 August 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 August 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.

Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.

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