Thread by @pleasesaveour

I guess just plain lying is part of the GOP plank

Democrats and Iron Dome funding
McCarthy mentioned Israel's Iron Dome aerial defense system, then told a Democrat that "your party actually defunded that."

Facts First:
cnn.com/2021/11/20/pol…

This is false. Democrats did not defund Iron Dome; in September, the Democratic-controlled House approved $1 billion in funding for Iron Dome in an overwhelming and bipartisan 420-9 vote.

Democrats and energy

Blaming Dems for high gas prices, McCarthy claimed that they "banned oil and gas."

Facts First: Neither of these claims is true. It's obviously not true that Democrats completely banned oil and gas.

Pipelines and jobs

McCarthy said that Biden's Keystone decision resulted in "thousands" of blue-collar workers losing their jobs. But at another point, he claimed that there are "more than one million people who lost their job after President Biden was sworn in because he shut

down a pipeline"

Facts First: McCarthy's "more than one million people" claim is false

Biden and separated families

McCarthy criticized the Biden administration for "considering paying illegal immigrants $450,000 per family."
Facts
The Biden admin is not considering $450,000 payments to every undocumented family or a large percentage of undocumented families