“There are approximately 100,000 structural — structurally deficient bridges in America that could crumble or collapse at any moment.”
What Washington Post found
Jeffries doubles of the number of bridges in poor condition -- and wrongly suggests many are about to collapse.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Hakeem Jeffries (Member of Congress (D-N.Y.)) made this claim around 16 November 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 November 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Hakeem Jeffries has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- washingtonpost.comhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/18/bridge-too-far-jefferies-doubles-numbe…
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