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FactCheck.org says: A state Senate analysis of the legislation said it will have an "indeterminate fiscal impact on residents and businesses currently served by a special district dissolved by the bill."
FactCheck.org says: The number of food-processing plant fires in 2022 isn't unusual, according to the NFPA. But conservative pundits suggested a rash of "mysterious fires" may be part of a plan to disrupt the food supply.
FactCheck.org says: There is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccination is involved. Most of the children are too young to even qualify for one of the vaccines. The J&J vaccine is not authorized for use in children.
FactCheck.org says: Biden said students are “not somebody else’s children; they’re like yours when they’re in the classroom.”
FactCheck.org says: Vance agreed with the premise that “some” had “racist reasons” for voting for Trump. He went on to say “the thing that really motivated people to vote for Trump … was three words — jobs, jobs, jobs.”
FactCheck.org says: Republican Sen. Rick Scott says he wants all federal legislation to “sunset” in five years, and “[i]f a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again.” But Scott says he doesn’t want to end Social Security.
FactCheck.org says: The National Law Review said the funds were “significantly more” than the government had ever dedicated to this issue, but “will likely represent only a fraction of the money needed to address PFAS issues nationwide."
FactCheck.org says: La Cruz Roja Americana y otras agencias de donación de sangre en Estados Unidos solicitan encarecidamente que todas las personas saludables donen sangre, incluyendo quienes han recibido la vacuna contra el COVID-19.
FactCheck.org says: Deficits fell between fiscal year 2020 and 2021 far less than initially projected after Biden added to them with more emergency pandemic and infrastructure spending.
FactCheck.org says: The American Red Cross and other blood collectors in the U.S. strongly encourage everyone who is feeling healthy to donate blood, including people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine.
FactCheck.org says: Vance has called for higher taxes for some companies that, in his view, "use their money to fund anti-American radical movements."
FactCheck.org says: A California bill would do away with mandatory investigations of stillbirths. Opponents misleadingly claim it would “legalize infanticide.” Authorities would investigate if there were evidence of foul play.
FactCheck.org says: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that he couldn't even "imagine a circumstance" where "parents complaining" at a school board meeting would be "labeled as domestic terrorism."
FactCheck.org says: Booth was active in the Know-Nothing Party, and there are no surviving statements in which Booth declares he is a Democrat.
FactCheck.org says: Walker voted against Trump’s first impeachment in late 2019, and he wasn't in Congress the second time Trump was impeached in 2021. In mid-2019, Walker missed a procedural vote on an impeachment resolution that failed.
FactCheck.org says: Las personas que no están vacunadas contra el COVID-19 son más propensas a padecer la enfermedad grave y mueren en mayor proporción que las vacunadas.
FactCheck.org says: La pandemia del COVID-19 fue causada por un nuevo coronavirus, aislado por primera vez en enero de 2020. Y el veneno de serpiente no contiene virus. Es una secreción que contiene toxinas.
FactCheck.org says: The COVID-19 pandemic was caused by a novel coronavirus, first isolated in Jan. 2020. But a viral video has been spreading a conspiracy theory that the pandemic has actually been a plot to poison people with snake venom.
FactCheck.org says: After George Floyd's murder, McCormick emailed his staff, urging them to "be agents of change” and to show "solidarity by denouncing and eradicating structural bigotry around us." The email didn't mention BLM.
FactCheck.org says: McDonald's said it does not use xylitol in its ice cream, and the sweetener does not appear in the list of ingredients on the company website.