“Senate Democrats just voted to give stimulus checks to criminals in prison.”
Tom Cotton
Republican senator from Arkansas. In a tweet. Claim dated 6 Mar 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
What PolitiFact found
Democrats defended their stance, saying they didn't want to hurt the families of prisioners.
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In short
Tom Cotton (Republican senator from Arkansas) made this claim around 6 March 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 March 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Tom Cotton has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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