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“Something less than 6% ... of this proposal that President Biden has put forward is actually focused on infrastructure.”
Liz Cheney U.S. Rep., R-Wyo.. an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation". Claim dated 11 Apr 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire

What PolitiFact found

About 6% of the Biden proposal would pay for roads, bridges, and highways. But those aren’t the only types of public works that have traditionally qualified as “infrastructure.”

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In short

Liz Cheney (U.S. Rep., R-Wyo.) made this claim around 11 April 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 April 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.

Liz Cheney has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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