“She cast the deciding vote for the so-called Inflation Reduction Act that sent a lot of our resources to China.”
What Washington Post found
Vance’s claim that the IRA is sending jobs and resources to China is based on a facile hunch, not evidence.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
JD Vance (GOP vice-presdential nominee) made this claim around 7 August 2024. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 August 2024, 6 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
JD Vance has 38 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 21 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJNxGkcsQ_U&t=505s
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