“They claim pandemics only happen once every hundred years but what if that’s no longer true? We want to be early, ready for the next one, because clearly the Obama administration did not leave to this administration any kind of game plan for something like this.”
What Washington Post found
McConnell is wrong to say the Obama administration left “no game plan” to deal with a pandemic; the Obama team crafted a detailed document setting forth questions and policies that should be considered.
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In short
Mitch McConnell (Senate Majority Leader) made this claim around 11 May 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 May 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Mitch McConnell has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- washingtonpost.comhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/mcconnell-incorrectly-says-obama-did-not-le…
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