“The relief bill signed by President Joe Biden "punished the states that opened earlier, and it rewarded the states that stayed closed the longest.”
What PolitiFact found
Experts say that no method for targeting aid to the states is perfect; each has pluses and minuses. Preliminary academic research shows that government policies on reopening had only a modest impact on unemployment.
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In short
John Barrasso (U.S. Senator, R-Wyo.) made this claim around 14 March 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 March 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “Linkage isn't perfect”.
John Barrasso has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- abcnews.go.comhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-14-21-speaker-nancy-pelosi-sen/story?id=7…
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