“There's over a trillion dollars of money unspent from previous (coronavirus) relief bills ... still sitting in a bank account.”
What PolitiFact found
A lot of the money has yet to reach its final destination, but much is ready for allocation and isn't sitting in some budget account. And the government's figures show a lower figure of about $500 billion.
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In short
Steve Scalise (House Republican Whip) made this claim around 21 February 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 February 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Steve Scalise has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- abcnews.go.comhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-21-21-jen-psaki-rep-steve/story?id=760291…
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