“Thanks to the insane tax-and-spending spree of President Joe Biden and Democrats in Washington, we are seeing six straight months of raging inflation.”
What PolitiFact found
Most of the government spending came before Biden took office. And not only have there not been tax hikes, if there had been, that would tend to reduce inflation pressures.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rick Scott (Republican senator from Florida) made this claim around 26 July 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 July 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Rick Scott has 28 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 15 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- rickscott.senate.govhttps://www.rickscott.senate.gov/sen-rick-scott-and-heritage-foundation-release-episodes-…
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