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Checked by FactCheck.org17 Nov 2021United States
Karen Bass, U.S. Representative

“Here, you have a 17-year-old boy [Kyle Rittenhouse] who was driven by his mother across state lines with an automatic weapon — frankly, she should have been detained for child endangerment.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: According to court testimony and police records, Kyle Rittenhouse drove himself from Antioch, Illinios, to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where the rifle he used to kill two men at a protest was being kept at a friend's house.

Lindsey Graham, U.S. senator

“But the House Democrats are saying openly that the tax credit for electric vehicles under their construct, the $4,500, the big part of it, will only be eligible for companies that hire union workers.”

FactCheck.org rated this: We Explain the Proposal

FactCheck.org says: The House's Build Back Better plan calls for extending a $7,500 tax credit for the purchase of electric vehicles, and it includes an additional $4,500 credit for electric vehicles built in the U.S. by union labor.

Checked by FactCheck.org10 Nov 2021United StatesHealth
Ben Swann, Conservative commentator

“Statistically, the numbers" of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths "are pretty much the same as they were before the vaccine.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Spins the Facts

FactCheck.org says: The COVID-19 death rate for the unvaccinated is higher than the vaccinated. But Ben Swann claims that vaccines aren’t effective. But the charts he uses don’t distinguish between vaccinated and unvaccinated patients.