“You remember just a few years ago when Trump and my Republican colleagues voted for almost $2 trillion in tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country and the largest corporations.”
What Washington Post found
Sanders is wrong to claim that $2 trillion in tax breaks went to the “wealthiest people in this country and the largest corporations.” Most Americans, across all income spectrums, received some sort of tax cut.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Bernie Sanders (Senator (I-Vt.)) made this claim around 29 January 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 February 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
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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