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11 October
5:11 pm

Twenty seven states have balanced budget amendments. And only about a third of them are actually balanced budgets.

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Kasie Whitener, at South Carolina U.S. Senate General Election Debate (SCETV)

5:11 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific figure of 27 states with balanced budget amendments and the claim that only about a third actually have balanced budgets are verifiable against state constitutional and fiscal records.
What we foundThe claim that 27 states have balanced budget amendments is not supported; authoritative sources consistently report that 49 of 50 states have some form of balanced budget requirement, while the '27' figure refers to states that have called for a federal constitutional convention.
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