Claim: "If lawmakers fail to avert the fiscal cliff, 18 percent of the federal money that is sent to the states will be eliminated."
Fact-check: Campaign to Fix the Debt says failure of fiscal talks could cost states 18 percent of their federal grant money
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Dave Umhoefer
Date published: 2012-12-20T00:00:00