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“The proposed tax increases in the Biden administration’s infrastructure plan could lead to 1 million fewer jobs in the first two years.”

Washington Post says: Blunt tweeted about a study that did not even pretend to be about Biden’s infrastructure proposal or his actual tax proposal. (No Pinocchios because Blunt deleted the tweet.)

“The average rapist rapes about six times.”

Washington Post says: Biden conflated a statistic about college rapes that has come under attack from other researchers.

“States that have red-flag laws have seen the reduction in the number of suicides in their states.”

Washington Post says: Biden is too definitive. A Rand Corporation study in 2020 said it was too soon to make such a sweeping claims.

“A lot of folks reaching the breaking point. Suicides are up.”

Washington Post says: Preliminary data now indicates suicides fell in 2020, contrary to Biden's statement, but the picture may change with the final report.

“Independent analysis shows that if we pass this plan, the economy will create 19 million jobs — good jobs, blue-collar jobs, jobs that pay well.”

Washington Post says: The president uses finely-tuned language that sometimes leaves the wrong impression -- and which other administration officials have bungled.

“You look at this bill, the $2 trillion in the [Biden infrastructure] bill that, only about 5 to 7 percent of it is actual roads and bridges and ports and things that you and I would say is real infrastructure and that we tried to get passed under the last administration with President Trump.”

“The New York Times is running a story that I have traveled with a 17-year-old woman, and that is verifiably false. People can look at my travel records and see that that is not the case.”

Washington Post says: As a House member, Gaetz is not required to file disclosures concerning his private life and expenses. So his records show nothing.

“Democrats also want to register illegal aliens [to vote].”

Washington Post says: Heritage Action has taken a somewhat remote possibility that undocumented immigrants would be registered as voters under AVR and turned it into a Democrat desire

“What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It’s sick. It’s sick … deciding that you’re going to end voting at five o’clock when working people are just getting off work.”

Washington Post says: Not a single expert we consulted who has studied the law understood why Biden made this claim, as this was the section of law that expanded early voting for many Georgians.

“And the irony of this, as we looked it up, this is actually the law in the president’s home state of Delaware right now.”

Washington Post says: Delaware makes no mention of food or water — just “compensation, inducement or reward.”

“Well, look, the idea that I’m going to say, which I would never do, that if an unaccompanied child ends up at the border, we’re just going to let them starve to death and stay on the other side — no previous administration did that either, except Trump.”

Washington Post says: Many reports of malnutrition but none of death by starvation.

“We can ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country once again. I got that done when I was a senator. It passed. It was the law for the longest time. And it brought down these mass killings.”

Washington Post says: For years, the 1994 law was seen as largely ineffective. But new research bolsters the argument that the ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines had an impact on mass shootings.

“The filibuster was created so that slave owners could hold power over our government.”

Washington Post says: Lawmakers dedicated to preserving slavery or segregation may have exploited the filibuster for their own purposes, but they did not create it.

“Out of 7,750 protests last summer associated with BLM and Antifa, 570 turned into violent riots that killed 25 people and caused $1- $2 billion of property damage.”

Washington Post says: Johnson attributes 570 “riots” and 25 deaths to Black Lives Matter and antifa. But in reality not all of these events were associated with BLM or antifa.

“Mitch McConnell already partially eliminated the filibuster to install a right-wing Supreme Court, so he will not hesitate to completely remove that rule when back in power.”

Washington Post says: McConnell has consistently supported keeping the legislative filibuster

“I had covid, so I don’t believe, you know, I think that probably provides me the best immunity possible, actually having had the disease.”

“When I became a business owner, I needed to protect myself. There was an altercation outside of my restaurant where a man was physically beat to death. There were no weapons involved. He was beat to death by another man’s hands.”

Washington Post says: Contradicted by police and coroner reports.

“Sure, it would be nice if the Republicans would join us, but they didn’t. I thought it was a little bit hypocritical of Mitch McConnell to say, ‘Oh, we did it bipartisan.’ Yeah, when Trump was president, Democrats in the minority didn’t block things. We worked to get something done.”

Washington Post says: There are two narratives about what happened.

“I do not support defunding the police.”

“With this bill, they’re going to people in prison, they’re going to people who are illegal immigrants.”

Washington Post says: A small subset of undocumented immigrants might receive payments