To kick off the new year, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy released an open letter to his caucus on Sunday in which he once again blamed the nation's problems on President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress.

"No matter how you slice it, the first year of the Biden administration with Democrat [sic] control of Washington has set our nation back," the California Republican wrote. "What was promised to be a year to break free from the effects of the coronavirus turned out to be a year that only worsened them. And every day brings worse news."

McCarthy said he hopes Republicans will regain control of Congress in November's midterm elections, and promised to spend 2022 "working to solve our country's challenges." But McCarthy and his fellow Republicans in Congress have only helped worsen those challenges while falsely pinning the blame on Democrats.

Here are some of the false or misleading claims from McCarthy's letter:

False Claim No. 1: Democrats are making the coronavirus pandemic worse

"People are really suffering, and the Democrats are making a bad situation even worse," McCarthy wrote of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts. "We are seeing the President’s central promise — 'to shut down the virus' — be so mismanaged that Americans are starting the year with as much uncertainty and unease as at the start of the pandemic."

But McCarthy and GOP lawmakers across the country have consistently tried to undermine Biden's efforts to curb the pandemic. He and the...

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