“The COVID economic relief package “included $600 million for San Francisco, part of which goes to cover the tab for free alcohol and marijuana for the homeless.”
What PolitiFact found
There was no use of tax dollars for marijuana. The federal bill doesn't allocate money for San Francisco's program. The city aims to end the hotel program in June.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kevin McCarthy (House Minority Leader) made this claim around 14 March 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 March 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Kevin McCarthy has 34 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 20 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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