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Cortez Masto stated her number one priority would be building a stronger economy with new jobs, growing wages, and tax fairness for the middle class.

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PartialFact-checker reviewConfidence: 68%

All three cited PRIMARY sources are reachable and independently verify. (1) Senate Roll Call 314 (117th Cong.) is H.R. 3684, the infrastructure bill; its official description "A bill to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes" matches the cited quote verbatim, the tally is 69-30 (Aug 10, 2021), and Cortez Masto voted Yea — delivering jobs/infrastructure investment to Nevada. (2) Senate Roll Call 110 is H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act; tally 50-49 (Mar 6, 2021), Cortez Masto Yea — delivering middle-class relief (expanded Child Tax Credit, direct payments). (3) The Aug 10, 2021 press release from her office genuinely documents the IIJA "creating jobs in Nevada and strengthening our state's economy" as a top priority. Together the sources substantiate that she concretely acted on the stated economic priority and enacted meaningful pieces (jobs, middle-class relief), while the aspirational tax-fairness and wage-growth components (Tax Fairness for Workers Act, EITC expansion, minimum-wage increases) did not become law — a genuine mix of delivered and undelivered that supports PARTIAL rather than FULL/CHAMPIONED or IGNORED. The inherent vagueness of a "number one priority" promise caps confidence. Adversarial notes: the vote-tally phrasings in sources 1-2 are paraphrases layered on verbatim/popular bill names but are factually exact; source 3's originally cited sentence did not appear verbatim, so I corrected it to the source's actual wording. None of these discrepancies alters the outcome, and no source overstates the evidence.

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