“We have a national debt the size of our nation’s economy for the first time since World War II.”
What PolitiFact found
The national debt has been at 100% of gross domestic product since 2013 by one commonly used measure and since 2020 by another measure.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Mike Pence (former vice president) made this claim around 24 March 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 31 March 2023, 7 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.is/AXxoB
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