“Under H.R. 1, the Federal Election Commission “for the first time ever, instead of being an equal number of Republicans and Democrats (would be) three of one side and two of the other.”
What PolitiFact found
Blunt’s statement is directly contradicted by H.R. 1’s language. However, assuming that the fifth member will be genuinely independent requires some trust in the system.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Roy Blunt (U.S. Senator, R-Mo.) made this claim around 21 March 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 March 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Roy Blunt has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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