Alabama GOP Sen. Katie Britt on Sunday responded to allegations that her response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address was misleading.
The criticism centers on a story Britt told about a victim of human trafficking, which she implied happened during Biden's tenure.
Britt spoke in her Thursday-night speech about visiting the U.S.-Mexico border in 2023 and speaking to this woman.
"She had been sex-trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12. She told me not just that she was raped every day, but how many times a day she was raped," Britt said in her response to the State of the Union.
"We wouldn't be OK with this happening in a Third World country. This is the United States of America, and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it," she added. "President Biden's border crisis is a disgrace."
Shortly after the address, a viral social media post by journalist Jonathan Katz looked more closely at the story and noted that the trafficking did not happen during Biden's presidency, or even in the United States; it happened during the administration of President George W. Bush, in Mexico.
On "Fox News Sunday," Britt did not acknowledge making any mistake or leaving a wrong impression.