“We don’t have an Iron Dome in this country, yet, we’re vulnerable to nuclear missile attacks any given day.”
What PolitiFact found
The US military is actually spending funds on the tech and using Iron Dome defenses in limited ways. But because the US is larger and doesn’t have the same threats from its, the technology is less useful here.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Vivek Ramaswamy (Republican presidential candidate) made this claim around 9 October 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 October 2023, 4 days later. Its rating was “This is misleading”.
Vivek Ramaswamy has 19 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 8 of them false or fake, 10 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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