“Says Rep. Matt Gaetz and Sen. Ted Cruz took two weeks paid sick leave to self-quarantine. Gaetz “voted in 2013 to make it illegal for any city in Florida to enact paid sick leave,” and Cruz “voted in 2015 in the U.S. Senate against paid sick leave.”
Occupy Democrats
advocacy group. Claim dated 12 Mar 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
In short
Occupy Democrats (advocacy group) made this claim around 12 March 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 March 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Occupy Democrats has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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