“Trade agreements like NAFTA and permanent normal trade relations with China, which forced American workers to compete against people making pennies an hour, has resulted in the loss of 160,000 jobs here in Michigan.”
Bernie Sanders
Independent Senator from Vermont. In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press". Claim dated 8 Mar 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
In short
Bernie Sanders (Independent Senator from Vermont) made this claim around 8 March 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 March 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Bernie Sanders has 49 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 35 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
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