“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “cut $211 million in mental health funding.”
Gavin Newsom
California governor. Claim dated 7 May 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
In 2022, Texas officials moved $210.7 million out of the Health and Human Services Commission for a border initiative. But they replaced the funds with federal COVID-19 dollars.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Gavin Newsom (California governor) made this claim around 7 May 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 May 2023, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Gavin Newsom has 14 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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