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Iowans are bombarded with political claims on TV, radio or in the mail. The Gazette’s Fact Checker team hashes out some of those claims in our podcast. We argue a little, laugh a lot and eventually settle on a grade.
State Auditor Rob Sand, who is considering a run for governor in 2022, was critical of the amount of funding going to the Terrace Hill fence versus Iowa’s correctional system.
The Fact Checker is checking whether it’s true President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have not visited the U.S. border region since Biden came into office Jan. 20. That’s what Hinson said in May 10 fundraising video.
The state senator claimed: “In Iowa, net overall migration in 2020 was negative. We lost 2,348 folks who left this state. We rank 45th among states in ethnic diversity.”
Gov. Kim Reynolds claimed this past month that the Green New Deal proposed by progressive Congressional lawmakers would “destroy Iowa’s economy and our way of life.”
As Democratic President Joe Biden signs many executive orders in his first few months in office, many Republicans have rebuked …
Why don’t the union’s numbers match those from the Corrections Department?
