“They left the strategic national stockpile empty," referring to the Strategic National Stockpile for national emergencies, such an the pandemic.”
What FactCheck.org found
As of 2016, the year before Trump took office, there were at least six warehouses holding “approximately $7 billion in products across more than 900 separate line items,” according to an NAS report.
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In short
Mike Pence (Vice President) made this claim around 7 October 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 October 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Mike Pence has 46 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 25 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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