“The Republican tax bill passed in 2017 "gave 83% of the benefits to the top 1%.”
What PolitiFact found
The imbalance toward the top 1% will only reach 83% by 2027, due to the expiration of several important middle-income tax cuts and a change in how inflation is calculated.
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In short
Nancy Pelosi (House speaker) 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 “Half True”.
Nancy Pelosi has 17 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 1 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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