“The child tax credit passed under President Joe Biden “has helped 97% of the families with children who are living in poverty.”
What PolitiFact found
The 97% success rate was a pre-implementation estimate of how many families would benefit. Post-implementation analyses suggest the success rate was closer to 75% or 80%.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Raphael Warnock (U.S. Senator, D-Ga.) made this claim around 29 August 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 September 2022, 9 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Raphael Warnock has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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