“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.”
Charles Schumer
Senate Majority Leader. in remarks to reporters after a Senate vote. Claim dated 6 Mar 2021.
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Charles Schumer (Senate Majority Leader) made this claim around 6 March 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 March 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “Lacks context”.
Charles Schumer has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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