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Ashlie D. Stevens

House GOP swallows fake hot dog news

Customers line up with social distancing to purchase food at a Costco Wholesale store in San Mateo County, San Francisco Bay Area, the United States, May 21, 2020. Xinhua/Wu Xiaoling via Getty Images

On May 18, Twitter user @JohnWRichKid, whose username at the time was "Breaking911," sent out this tweet: "***BREAKING--COSTCO ANNOUNCES PLANS TO RAISE FOOD COURT HOT-DOG PRICES BY $1 DUE TO INFLATION." 

Two hours later, @HouseGOP, the official account of the Republican Conference of the U.S. House of Representatives, retweeted the announcement, adding that "#Bidenflation comes for everything."

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