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Latest Fact-Checks In Infrastructure

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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 3, 2022 in video:
The federal government is providing free solar panel installation and $8,500 incentive checks to eligible homeowners.
False
By Michael Majchrowicz • September 9, 2022
Jennifer McClellan
Jennifer McClellan
stated on February 15, 2022 in an op-ed.:
“More than half of Virginia’s school buildings are older than 50 years.”
True
By Warren Fiske • February 18, 2022
Kayleigh McEnany
Kayleigh McEnany
stated on February 8, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“President Trump sanctioned Russia. President Biden gave them a pipeline.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2022
Liz Mathis
Liz Mathis
stated on January 21, 2022 in 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
By Lauren White • January 21, 2022
Iowa Senate Democrats
Iowa Senate Democrats
stated on January 5, 2022 in 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
By Nina Baker • January 11, 2022
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on December 12, 2021 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in a tweet:
“Iowa ranks 45th in the U.S. for internet connectivity."
True
By Eleanor Hildebrandt • November 12, 2021
Lisa McClain
Lisa McClain
stated on November 6, 2021 in 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 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 in 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 in 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 in a Facebook post:
“California literally just told everyone to not charge their electric cars due to power shortage.”
False
By Sasha Hupka • July 2, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on June 6, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • June 7, 2021
Randy Feenstra
Randy Feenstra
stated on April 28, 2021 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
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