copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded. (Nikki Haley, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-05-08): "We start by clawing back the $500 billion of unspent COVID money," she said at an April 10 town hall in Salix, Iowa. [...] Haley said there is "$500 billion in unspent COVID money" that could be rescinded. [...] The statement is partially accurate because more than $400 billion in COVID-19 relief funds remain unspent. But it leaves out the critical detail that the majority of the funding has been allocated and would therefore be hard to rescind.
Claim: There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded. (Nikki Haley, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2021-01-19): For allocations of CRF funds shown in Figure 1, Finance has taken steps to validate the expenditure data it collects from state departments, cities, and counties, but can improve its monitoring by continuing to implement its recently developed monitoring plan to ensure that recipients of CRF funds have appropriate documentation to demonstrate that their expenditures comply with the CARES Act. For the $9.5 billion in federal CRF funds, the State must ensure that its use of the funds complies with the requirements of the CARES Act—for necessary expenses incurred because of the COVID-19 public health emergency—and that it follows the reporting and record retention requirements issued by the U.S. Treasury. Specifically, the U.S. Treasury requires the State to report the amount of CRF funds spent or obligated in specific categories and return funds that it determines the State spent on ineligible expenditures, or funds the State did not spend or obligate for costs incurred between March 1 and December 30, 2020.In late 2020, this CARES Act requirement was amended to December 31, 2021.
Claim: There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded. (Nikki Haley, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2020-03-20): The government allocated KD 500 million ($1.6 billion or 1.5 percent of GDP) additional funds to support efforts in fighting the spread of COVID-19. It has formed a committee to implement stimulus measures to ease the negative impact of COVID-19 on economic activity. In particular, the authorities implemented the following measures: [...] The Federal Government adopted a revised budget for 2020 in response to the COVID-19 shock. A N500 billion (0.3 percent of GDP) COVID-19 intervention fund is included in the revised budget to channel resources to additional health-related current and capital spending (tests, supplies and facilities) and public works programs to support the incomes of the vulnerable, including N7.5 billion to Nigeria's Center for Disease Control and grant of N10 billion to Lagos State. The coverage of the conditional cash transfer program has been broadened and an allocation of N150 billion to support state and local governments' spending needs has been made available through the budget. Import duty waivers for pharmaceutical firms were introduced. Regulated fuel prices have been reduced, and an automatic fuel price formula introduced to ensure fuel subsidies are eliminated. Electricity tariff was increased. The social register was increased by 1 million households to 3.6 million to help cushion the effect of the lockdown. A broader economic stimulus plan that includes the N500 billion COVID-19 intervention fund (of which 288 billion has been released so far) was introduced to support the real sector.
Claim: There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded. (Nikki Haley, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-08-02): - Proposes pulling back approximately $280 million in unspent funds from the 2021-22 CalWORKs Single Allocation, which funds employment services, eligibility determination, and administrative costs.
Claim: There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded. (Nikki Haley, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-06-01): What the deal does: The White House and House Republicans agreed to take back nearly $28 billion in Covid-19 relief funds, including money slated for highway infrastructure programs and strengthening the food supply chain. [...] Consolation for Democrats: They say they protected several programs intended to maintain readiness if Covid infections, hospitalizations and deaths spike again. The agreement keeps $5 billion to support research into new Covid vaccines and treatments, and roughly $800 million for Defense Production Act investments, including efforts to strengthen pharmaceutical supply chains. [...] What the deal does: The rescinding of Covid-era funding also removes $1 billion that was supposed to help states revamp their creaky unemployment insurance systems. The weaknesses in those systems had become apparent when many states were unable to quickly deal with the crush of claims for benefits at the height of the pandemic — or to stem widespread fraud.
Claim: There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded. (Nikki Haley, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2024-07-03): 3.24.21 – USDA announced its new $6 billion financial assistance initiative, called USDA Pandemic Assistance for Producers. Combining existing programs with new spending, the initiative aims to resolve disparities in previous assistance distribution through a four-part agenda: $6 billion in Consolidated Appropriations Act and unspent coronavirus funds for new program spending, including assistance for the Dairy Donation Program, biofuels, specialty crops, and farmworker personal protective equipment; $500 million in additional existing program spending, including the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program and the Local Agricultural Marketing Program; continuation of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) payments, including rate increases and automatic payments for cattle producers, price trigger crop producers, and flat-rate crop producers with eligible CFAP 1 and CFAP 2 applications; and enhancing the CFAP 2 program through $2.5 million in outreach and promotional spending and reopening the CFAP 2 application window for at least 60 days, beginning April 5, 2021.
Claim: There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded. (Nikki Haley, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-06-06): (Updated 5/11/23) School districts and charter organizations can request an extra 14 months to spend down the second round of federal Covid-relief aid, but must still obligate the money to a contract or project by the September 2023 deadline, according to the latest U.S. Department of Education guidance. [...] A decision will come "at a later date" on extending deadlines for spending the $54 billion in ESSER funds allotted in the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSA) and the $122 billion in American Rescue Plan (ARP), the guidance states. In the meantime, the department encourages states and districts to spend "with urgency on activities that will support students’ academic recovery and mental health needs." [...] The December Covid relief deal was far smaller than the $2.2 trillion Democratic leaders had been seeking for much of the Fall but higher than the $500 billion that Senate Republicans favored. The measure left some education leaders disappointed. American Council of Education President Ted Mitchell released a statement calling the funding for higher education "wholly inadequate." Alliance for Excellent Education President and CEO Deborah S. Delisle praised the overall effort but faulted Congressional leaders for failing to include $3 billion for the E-Rate program, money that had appeared in previous relief proposals. School choice advocates found little of the support for private schools contained in Republican-backed bills.
Claim: There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded. (Nikki Haley, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-08-29): - Rescind, discontinue, and recover unspent and fraudulent COVID-19 funds. ($50 billion)
Claim: There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded. (Nikki Haley, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2024-02-15): Review Unallocated Funds and Reduce Lower‑Priority Grants. We recommend the Legislature review existing grants with unallocated funding and reduce or eliminate any grants that do not represent its highest priorities. One reasonable starting point would be to rescind some of the funding for community schools. For example, the Legislature could rescind $1 billion out of $2.4 billion currently set aside for future rounds of implementation grants and extension grants for current grantees. This would leave about $1.1 billion for providing implementation grants to roughly 400 grantees that are currently in the planning process and eligible for implementation grants this year and next year, as well as maintain $280 million for providing two‑year extension grants to current grantees. This reduction also accounts for the likelihood that in tighter fiscal times, districts are likely to have less interest in implementing the community schools model this grant is intended to support. Any savings the Legislature identifies from unallocated grants would help address the budget shortfall and reduce the likelihood of other reductions that districts might find more disruptive.
Claim: There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded. (Nikki Haley, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-09-20): The Limit, Save, Grow Act would return total discretionary spending to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 level in FY 2024 and cap annual growth at 1 percent for a decade thereafter; rescind unspent COVID relief funds; repeal most of the Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) energy and climate tax credit expansions; rescind the IRA's increased Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding; make changes to energy, regulatory, and permitting policies; impose or expand work requirements in several federal safety net programs; and prevent implementation of President Biden's student debt cancellation and Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) expansion. [...] The bill proposes another $300 billion of savings through the repeal of most of the IRA's new and expanded climate tax credits and any unused COVID relief funds. The IRA included changes to several existing credits as well as new credits aimed at encouraging the adoption of clean energy, including credits for the production of clean energy and electricity, the production of energy-efficient homes and buildings, clean vehicles, and clean fuel. Policymakers approved about $6 trillion of COVID relief funds through legislative action, though there is likely significantly less than $100 billion of unobligated funds remaining.
Claim: There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded. (Nikki Haley, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2023-09-20): The Limit, Save, Grow Act would return total discretionary spending to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 level in FY 2024 and cap annual growth at 1 percent for a decade thereafter; rescind unspent COVID relief funds; repeal most of the Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) energy and climate tax credit expansions; rescind the IRA's increased Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding; make changes to energy, regulatory, and permitting policies; impose or expand work requirements in several federal safety net programs; and prevent implementation of President Biden's student debt cancellation and Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) expansion. [...] The bill proposes another $540 billion of savings through the repeal of most of the IRA's new and expanded climate tax credits, some of its spending, and any unused COVID relief funds. The IRA included changes to several existing credits as well as new credits aimed at encouraging the adoption of clean energy, including credits for the production of clean energy and electricity, the production of energy-efficient homes and buildings, clean vehicles, and clean fuel. It also included various spending programs for energy- and climate-related items. Policymakers approved about $6 trillion of COVID relief funds through legislative action, though there is likely significantly less than $100 billion of unobligated funds remaining. CBO estimates rescinding the remaining unspent COVID relief would save another $30 billion.
Claim: There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded. (Nikki Haley, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2024-01-01): It Should Be Easy to Offset Additional COVID Funds [...] - Rescinding COVID Relief Funds Saves $30 Billion (5/24/23) [...] - It Should Be Easy to Offset Additional COVID Funds (3/18/22)
Claim: There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded. (Nikki Haley, 2023-04-10)
Evidence (2022-04-04): The new bill would use $1.6 billion of unspent funds that were previously given to the US Department of Agriculture by both the Democrats’ coronavirus relief package, known as the American Rescue Plan Act, and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, which was signed into law by then-President Donald Trump in 2020, according to a summary from Senate Democrats. [...] The new bill would also use remaining unspent money in the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund, totaling $500 million. That program provided funds to colleges so that they could give emergency financial aid grants to students whose lives were disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The relief package would rescind more than $1.8 billion from the $10 billion in Covid-19 relief funds provided to the State Small Business Credit Initiative Program. The program aims to help states, the District of Columbia, territories and tribal governments "expand access to capital for small businesses emerging from the pandemic, build ecosystems of opportunity and entrepreneurship, and create high-quality jobs." The bill would not rescind the money allocated specifically for small and disadvantaged businesses and very small businesses, according to a summary provided by Senate Democrats.
Claim: In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years." (Bryan Steil, 2022-11-15)
Evidence (2022-11-15): Milwaukee reached its grim homicide milestone the week of Nov. 23, when a 33-year-old man was killed in a shooting, bringing the homicide tally to 197 up to that date. In 2019, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s homicide tracker, there were 111 homicides. In 2020, the number rose to 204; in 2021, the figure had climbed to 212 homicides. To have doubled in two years from 111 in 2019, the tally would have to have reached 222 in 2021. So Steil’s "nearly doubled" claim is in the ballpark.
Claim: In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years." (Bryan Steil, 2022-11-15)
Evidence (2023-01-12): MILWAUKEE — Violent crime remains a major focus in Milwaukee. In a news conference Thursday, the Milwaukee Police Department said serious crimes were down 15% from 2021, but homicides were up. In fact, for the third year in a row, Milwaukee broke its homicide record; 214 people were homicide victims in Milwaukee in 2022. In 2021, Milwaukee lost 193 lives to homicide — the previous record. Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson said efforts from law enforcement, city leaders and community members are essential to curb the crime rate, especially when it comes to homicides.
Claim: In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years." (Bryan Steil, 2022-11-15)
Evidence (2023-06-13): Milwaukee's rise in violent crime will require everyone — from government workers to business owners to residents — to join together and make it a safer place, a panel of community leaders said this week. [...] As of Monday, Milwaukee has 64 homicides this year, a 27% drop compared to the same time last year. [...] Last year, shootings in the city had a lethality rate of about 19%, meaning nearly one in every five shooting victims died from their injuries, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analysis.
Claim: In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years." (Bryan Steil, 2022-11-15)
Evidence (2022-05-12): Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Milwaukee was on a four-year historic decline in homicide, with around 100 homicides total in 2018 and 2019. All that changed in 2020, when the city saw an astronomical rise in violence — nearly doubling those numbers in 2020 and 2021. As of Wednesday, the city has had 74 homicides, about 45% more than at the same time last year. Jamaal Smith is a community injury and violence prevention manager at Milwaukee’s Office of Violence Prevention. He says the uptick in violence reflects the pain, frustration and anger that exists in Milwaukee communities from the emotional toll of the COVID pandemic, as well as the generational and current trauma that many people have experienced. [...] He notes the disparities had that already existed for Black and brown communities were exacerbated even more when COVID hit. He says this has all contributed to the historically bleak homicide numbers in Milwaukee.
Claim: In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years." (Bryan Steil, 2022-11-15)
Evidence (2023-05-16): MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee ranks within the top three for largest cities with the highest violent crime rate, according to a new report by SafeHome.org, which pulled from FBI data. Amongst the largest cities, Milwaukee ranked third highest for murder, aggravated assault, and robbery. This is not unlike national trends, which saw these three crimes surge in 2020 and rise again slightly in 2021. Murder rates jumped nearly 50% in a decade, from 2011 to 2021.
Claim: In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years." (Bryan Steil, 2022-11-15)
Evidence (2021-01-01): Milwaukee concluded its historically violent year with 189 homicides as of New Year’s Day, nearly doubling that figure from 2019 and smashing its previous record set in 1991 by more than 14% [...] But it’s not just fatal violence that skyrocketed in Milwaukee in 2020. As of Dec. 16, nonfatal shootings had already victimized more than 700 people in Milwaukee, a 64% increase from 2019, according to the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission. That also ended a two-year decline. [...] From 2010 through 2014, Milwaukee eclipsed 100 homicides annually just once before a spike of 147 in 2015 and 142 the following year, according to police. Those numbers continued to trend downward to 97 in 2019.
Claim: In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years." (Bryan Steil, 2022-11-15)
Evidence (2024-04-17): Homicides in Milwaukee are down nearly 50 percent this year compared to two years ago and 23 percent lower than the same time last year. [...] Milwaukee broke its homicide record three years in a row, from 2020 to 2022. Law enforcement experts have pointed to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the increasing number of guns on the street as possible reasons for the spike. [...] The city’s homicide clearance rate, or the number of homicides solved by the Milwaukee Police Department, is at 83 percent. That number has dipped below 50 percent in prior years.
Claim: In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years." (Bryan Steil, 2022-11-15)
Evidence (2024-01-10): The number of homicides in Milwaukee, long known for violent crime, set records in 2020, 2021 and 2022. [...] Milwaukee’s 2022 homicides more than doubled the total in 2019 and set a record for the third year in a row. Homicides totaled 111 in 2019; 204 in 2020; 213 in 2021; and 227 in 2022, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel database.
Claim: In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years." (Bryan Steil, 2022-11-15)
Evidence (2024-01-10): The city of Milwaukee is on pace to break its homicide record again this year. [...] Public data from the medical examiner’s website counts 81 homicide victims in Milwaukee County so far this year. That’s up from 65 deaths at this point last year. The state as a whole saw more than 300 homicide deaths last year, up 70 percent from before the coronavirus pandemic. According to the state Department of Justice, Milwaukee County alone accounted for nearly two-thirds of those deaths.
Claim: In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years." (Bryan Steil, 2022-11-15)
Evidence (2024-01-10): Homicides declined by 21 percent from 2022 to 2023, according to preliminary crime data from the Milwaukee Police Department. In 2023, there were 169 homicides in Milwaukee, 46 fewer than in 2022. [...] According to data from the Wisconsin Department of Justice, there were 97 homicides in Milwaukee five years ago. In 2022, the Milwaukee Police Department investigated 214 homicides — a 120 percent increase over three years. But the city wasn’t alone in dealing with a spike in violent deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. The homicide rate across the nation increased 30 percent between 2019 and 2020, according to a report from the Pew Research Center. According to a national study last year, Milwaukee had the fifth-highest homicide rate increase in the country since 2020.
Claim: In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years." (Bryan Steil, 2022-11-15)
Evidence (2022-11-23): Milwaukee has broken its annual homicide record for the third year in a row, reaching a grim milestone few thought possible when killings in the city and around the country began an alarming spike in 2020. [...] Milwaukee police have struggled to keep up with the caseload and has seen its homicide clearance rate fall from nearly 80% prior to 2020, to around 50% in the years since. As of Friday, it stood at 56%. [...] Homicides in Milwaukee have been steadily tapering off since peaking in July, with 26 reported. Although that could reflect seasonal crime patterns — violent crime tends to rise in warmer months — those seasonal variations have been less pronounced in Milwaukee since 2020. For example, January 2022 saw almost as many homicides, with 24 reported, as the peak month of July.
Claim: In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years." (Bryan Steil, 2022-11-15)
Evidence (2022-04-12): Milwaukee is again reaching historic homicide totals in 2022. Why police say a solution isn't easy. [...] Winter months are commonly associated with a downturn in violent crime, but 53 homicides were reported in the first three months of 2022. It’s a figure that more closely resembles Milwaukee’s homicide rate in warmer months over the last two years and it is double the number of homicides reported after the first three months of 2021, when the city broke its record for the second year in a row. [...] Milwaukee's homicide clearance rate stood at 57% as of April 1. And while police often do not detail the circumstances of homicides and nonfatal shootings, more details emerge after criminal charges are filed. Many of them filed this year portray impulsive actions.
Claim: In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years." (Bryan Steil, 2022-11-15)
Evidence (2021-12-14): Milwaukee reports its 192nd homicide, breaking the city's record for a second straight year. Uptick follows disturbing national trend [...] Milwaukee saw 190 people killed in homicides in 2020, more than doubling the figure from 2019 and smashing a record previously set in 1991 by more than 15%. [...] More: Two homicides reported Monday break Milwaukee's homicide record for second year in a row