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Facebook post compares votes past Rand Paul, Ilhan Omar on Sept. 11 victim compensation fund

Over the past few weeks, misinformation and personal attacks targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., have fabricated headlines.

Most notably, President Donald Trump said that Omar, a U.Due south. citizen who immigrated equally a Somali refugee, said that al-Qaida was "wonderful." PolitiFact rated Trump's statement False — he twisted her words.

On Facebook, some users are pushing back against the notion that Omar has downplayed attacks past terrorist groups. A photo published on Facebook July 21 claims that Omar "voted yes to provide further funding for the nine/xi Kickoff Responders Victims Fund," while Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky "voted no."

"Who hates America again?" reads the photo, which includes headshots of both politicians and was shared hundreds of times.

The mail service was flagged as role of Facebook's efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed, and then we wanted to bank check it out. (Read more than about our partnership with Facebook.)

(Screenshot from Facebook)

PolitiFact reached out to the Facebook user who shared the photo asking for their source. We'll update this story if we hear back.

Congress created the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund in 2001 to pay the people and relatives harmed or killed during the 9/eleven terrorist attacks. The original program operated until 2004.

The fund was revived betwixt 2011 and 2016 with the passage of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Deed of 2010. In December 2015, President Barack Obama signed a neb that extended the fund until 2020.

For the past several months, lawmakers have been deciding whether to extend the fund through 2090 — and Paul has come up under attack for his activeness on the bill.

A quick Google search for the Victim Compensation Fund surfaced several contempo articles about how Paul blocked the Senate from extending the fund July 17. The Business firm passed the bill July 12.

Nosotros checked footage from the session. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., asked the Senate to pass the bill without argue, and Paul objected.

"It has long been my feeling that we demand to accost our massive debt in this country," he said. "Therefore any spending that we are approaching, any new program that's going to take the longevity of 70, 80 years, should exist offset by cutting spending that'southward less valuable. We demand to, at the very least, have this fence."

The senator's objection delayed a vote on the bill to July 23. Rand's movement didn't technically establish a vote — he was objecting to Gillibrand'due south move to pass the bill without debate and put information technology on the unanimous consent docket. Information technology would be more than accurate to say he stalled the bill's passage, even if that did finer impale the legislation for the time being.

The Facebook post was shared before the Senate took its full vote. On July 23, Rand and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, were the two senators who voted confronting the neb. Both proposed amendments; Rand's would have required offsets for money spent on the fund, and Lee's would have restricted the extension to x years. Both were defeated in roll telephone call votes.

As for Omar, nosotros checked the voting record and found that the congresswoman voted in favor of the bill July 12.

Our ruling

A Facebook photo claims Omar "voted yes" to pass a beak extending the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund while Sen. Rand Paul "voted no."

The congressional voting record shows that Omar did vote for the mensurate in the House. At the time the photo was published, Paul objected to a movement to pass the bill in the Senate without contend. The move did not technically constitute a nay vote, but information technology did effectively halt the legislation. Later, he did officially vote confronting the bill — he was i of two Republican votes against it.

We charge per unit the Facebook post Truthful.

Bowling Green Daily News, "Paul defends stance on 9/11 bill," July 22, 2019

Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Roll call vote 474, July 12, 2019

C-SPAN, "Senate Session, Part 2," July 23, 2019

Donald Trump, remarks at the White House, July 15, 2019

Facebook postal service, July 21, 2019

The Hill, "Rand Paul blocks Senate from approving 9/eleven victim compensation fund," July 17, 2019

Kirsten Gillibrand, remarks in the Senate, July 17, 2019

New York Daily News, "9/xi Victim Compensation Fund renewal set up for a Senate vote, $10.2B compensation parcel expected to pass," July 23, 2019

PolitiFact, "Donald Trump twists Ilhan Omar's comments virtually al-Qaida," July sixteen, 2019

Rand Paul, remarks in the Senate, July 17, 2019

The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, "About the Victim Compensation Fund," accessed July 23, 2019

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Source: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/24/facebook-posts/facebook-post-compares-votes-rand-paul-ilhan-omar-/