Donald Trump, during a a speech in New York on Wednesday, said: “For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America.”
Trump said that Clinton wants to spend hundreds of billions on refugees and for that money, “we could rebuild every inner city in America.” Trump’s campaign provided no supporting numbers.
Clinton has not said how much she would spend on refugees, but the Obama administration request for FY 2017 is about $2.2 billion. That figure could increase for Clinton, as she has said she wants to take in more Syrian refugees. If it doubles or even triples, it is nowhere near “hundreds of billions.”
It is also a scant fraction of the price tag to rebuild America’s inner cities. There is no comprehensive tally of what it would take to deal with substandard housing and infrastructure, but we quickly found a backlog of about $225 billion in projects.
Trump’s numbers are off by a huge margin.
We rate this claim Pants on Fire.
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