“Thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure bill,” workers will be “removing lead pipes” so that “every American can turn on a faucet and drink clean water.”
What FactCheck.org found
The new law provides $15 billion for lead pipe removal, but that's not nearly enough funding to remove all lead pipes in the country.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (U.S. President) made this claim around 19 January 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 January 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “Exaggerates”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/01/19/remarks-by-president…
Links recorded by FactCheck.org. Some posts may have been deleted since.
This check was done by FactCheck.org, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.