“This also is the largest cut that Congress has ever voted on, more than $2.1 trillion.”
Kevin McCarthy
House Speaker (R-Calif.). during an interview on the Hugh Herwitt Show. Claim dated 30 May 2023.
Washington Post rated thisThree Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
Under no metric does this deal rank as the biggest
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In short
Kevin McCarthy (House Speaker (R-Calif.)) made this claim around 30 May 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 31 May 2023, 1 day later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Kevin McCarthy has 34 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 20 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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