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Latest Fact-Checks In Infrastructure

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Liz Mathis
Liz Mathis
stated on January 21, 2022 a tweet
“Ashley Hinson voted against the bipartisan infrastructure bill that made this money (for Iowa's locks and dams) possible. Once again she’s taking credit for work she didn’t do.”
Mostly True
January 21, 2022
Iowa Senate Democrats
Iowa Senate Democrats
stated on January 5, 2022 a statement on Facebook
Gov. Kim Reynolds, touting $210 million for Iowa broadband, “failed to mention these are actually federal funds approved by Rep. Cindy Axne and signed into law by President Joe Biden.”
True
January 11, 2022
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on December 12, 2021 TV interview
The push for high-speed internet for rural areas, from the start, “was a Democratic thing.”
Half-True
By Madeline Heim • December 28, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on November 30, 2021 a conversation at a technical college in Minnesota
“I used to drive a tractor trailer … I only did it for part of a summer.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • December 3, 2021
Progress Iowa
Progress Iowa
stated on November 15, 2021 a press release
"Only one member of Iowa’s federal delegation" voted in favor of the bipartisan infrastructure legislation.
False
By Lyle Muller • November 18, 2021
Bob Good
Bob Good
stated on November 4, 2021 a radio interview.
“The infrastructure bill itself is only 10% true infrastructure.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson, Warren Fiske • November 15, 2021
Cindy Axne
Cindy Axne
stated on November 5, 2021 a tweet
“Iowa ranks 45th in the U.S. for internet connectivity."
True
November 12, 2021
Lisa McClain
Lisa McClain
stated on November 6, 2021 a tweet
In the infrastructure bill that just passed the House, “only 10% is actual infrastructure.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 8, 2021
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on October 24, 2021 in a TikTok video
Product shortages are manufactured; goods are stuck in warehouses.
Pants on Fire!
By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 4, 2021
Sean Casten
Sean Casten
stated on August 23, 2021 remarks at a press conference
Says the 1995 Chicago heat wave was “the largest single-day, non-war fatality in the United States” prior to 9/11, and “we are now expecting temperatures that hot in Chicago every summer.”
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • September 1, 2021
Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson
stated on July 5, 2021 TV interview
"We’ve got 115,000 miles of roads in this state and 90% is owned by the locals.”
True
By D.L. Davis • August 20, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 18, 2021 a Facebook post
“California literally just told everyone to not charge their electric cars due to power shortage.”
False
By Shasha Hupka • July 2, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on June 6, 2021 a Facebook post
“The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight.”
False
June 7, 2021
Randy Feenstra
Randy Feenstra
stated on April 28, 2021 a tweet
"Only <6% of the $2.1 trillion 'infrastructure' bill contains funding for roads & bridges.”
Half-True
By Lyle Muller • April 30, 2021
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on April 13, 2021 a TV interview
“We have 23% of all the lead pipe leads in America in the Chicagoland area.”
Half-True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • April 18, 2021
Liz Cheney
Liz Cheney
stated on April 11, 2021 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
“Something less than 6% ... of this proposal that President Biden has put forward is actually focused on infrastructure.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 13, 2021
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 4, 2021 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal “is fully paid for. Across 15 years, it would raise all of the revenue needed for these once-in-a-lifetime investments."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 7, 2021
Citizens United
Citizens United
stated on March 31, 2021 a tweet
Says Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan “is the Green New Deal.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 2, 2021
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on August 21, 2020 an ad
After a bridge collapse killed six people, Carlos Gimenez extended a $130 million contract to the construction company, where one of his sons worked and for which another lobbied.
Half-True
September 4, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 18, 2020 a tweet
“In California, Democrats have intentionally implemented rolling blackouts.”
False
By Chris Nichols • August 18, 2020
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