“These figures are what you would consider regular appropriations-plus. So it’s baseline-plus.”
What Washington Post found
Capito clearly offered hints during her presentation that care must be taken when comparing the Senate GOP proposal and Biden’s plan.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Shelley Moore Capito (Senator (R-W.V)) made this claim around 22 April 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 April 2021, 4 days later. Its rating was “Correct”.
Shelley Moore Capito has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
- c-span.orghttps://www.c-span.org/video/?511176-1/senate-republicans-unveil-568-billion-infrastructu…
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