“We have money laying in the ground, far greater than anything we can do by hurting senior citizens with their Social Security.”
What Washington Post found
The money from oil and gas leases would have to be 27 times larger to solve Social Security's imbalance
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (former U.S. president) made this claim around 5 December 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 December 2023, 7 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFfM61kK6c
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