Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, claimed that Republican Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio has never supported pro-worker legislation, a claim that a fact-check by The Washington Post found was false.
“He's one of four senators who has never voted for a pro-worker bill in his lifetime,” Walz said of Vance during Tuesday's floor session. speech In Los Angeles. “Never.”
When asked to substantiate this claim, the Harris-Waltz campaign said: AFL-CIO The AFL-CIO, the largest labor union federation in the United States, evaluates lawmakers' voting records on bills and personnel decisions it deems “important” to workers. According to A Washington Post fact check found that Vance and three other Republican senators received 0% of the vote, but because all four were in their first year as senators at the time, the scorecard only considered 2023. Only seven votes were deemed worthy of a score by the AFL-CIO over the past year, five of which were for Biden administration personnel nominees.
Waltz's criticism comes as Vance is running for the 2023 Railway The SAFETY Act, introduced in the wake of the Norfolk Southern derailment, would impose new safety requirements to protect railroad workers. The bill has stalled in the Democratic-controlled Senate but has broad support. Union According to The Washington Post, it's garnering support.
Waltz's indictment also makes no mention of Vance breaking party lines. support Reauthorization of Radiation Exposure Compensation Activities A bill to improve compensation for uranium miners. The bill passed the Senate in March.
The Washington Post dispels Tim Walz's lie that J.D. Vance never supported pro-worker legislation.
He got four Pinocchios, which is the biggest lie you can tell.
J.D. Vance fully supported the pro-labor bill. pic.twitter.com/7DKgwH4wSP
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) August 15, 2024
At the beginning of his speech, Waltz said, “Those two guys [former President Donald Trump and Vance] What you need to know about your workers is how to work with them to get the most out of them.”
Vance grew up in Middletown, Ohio, a Rust Belt city that suffered from deindustrialization and the decline of its major employer, Armco Steel. According to According to the Ohio Capital Journal, the median household income in Middletown is roughly $25,000. Down That's the highest number in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Vance's mother was a heroin addict, and, according to his best-selling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” he was raised by his grandmother and grandfather, who were pro-union Democrats who worked at the Armco Steelworks and belonged to the local union with Vance's uncle. According to In The Washington Post.
The Washington Post quoted Waltz as saying:The four PinocchiosIt was ranked as “..”, the most falsehood on the media's scale.
The Harris-Waltz campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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