Veria - Claim Fact Check

10%

Based on my investigation, this claim does not appear to be supported by any verifiable source.

Reasoning:

No credible database or fact-check verifies the specific statistic that "approximately 80% of issues, including crime, open borders, and secure elections, are not passed by Congress."¹²
The "80%" figure appears to conflate unrelated statistics. One Yale/Harvard study found that 80% of passed laws were supported by a majority of Americans—not that 80% of issues failed to pass.³ The study actually concluded Congress acted in accordance with public opinion 55% of the time, and failed to reflect public sentiment 45% of the time.³
A Pew Research Center survey found that 80% of Americans said the U.S. government was doing a bad job handling the migrant influx at the border in January 2024.² This measures public opinion on government performance, not the percentage of issues Congress failed to pass.
Congress has passed numerous bills related to crime, border security, and elections, including the Laken Riley Act, the Secure the Border Act (H.R. 2), and various election security measures.⁴⁵ While comprehensive immigration reform has faced repeated gridlock and some border security bills have failed in the Senate,⁶ this does not equate to 80% of all issues in these categories failing.
GovTrack data shows that the vast majority of introduced bills (around 90%+) don't become law,⁷ but this refers to all legislation introduced, not specifically to the subset of issues mentioned in the claim.

The claim appears to be a fabricated or misattributed statistic that merges public opinion data with legislative failure rates.

Overall validity: 10%