Lie January 14, 2018 · Remarks · Foreign policy

“There shouldn’t be [a government shutdown], because if there is, our military gets hurt very badly. We cannot let our military be hurt.”

Said
January 14, 2018
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
5 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 2068)

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