“The Keystone pipeline was scheduled to have more than 11,000 jobs, including 8,000 union jobs, for contracts worth $1.6 billion.”
Ted Cruz
Senator (R-Texas). remarks at a hearing on Pete Buttigieg’s nomination to be transportation secretary. Claim dated 21 Jan 2021.
Washington Post rated thisTwo Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
Cruz cited a real estimate of approximately 11,000 jobs, but he left out that they were all temporary.
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In short
Ted Cruz (Senator (R-Texas)) made this claim around 21 January 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 January 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “Two Pinocchios”.
Ted Cruz has 24 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 10 of them false or fake, 10 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- c-span.orghttps://www.c-span.org/video/?508035-1/transportation-secretary-nominee-pete-buttigieg-te…
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