Jenna Fischer issues apology for spreading misinformation regarding GOP tax bill

Jenna-fischer-tweets apology — Image credit: Jenna Fischer / Instagram

Actress Jenna Fischer issued a lengthy apology on Twitter regarding some misinformation she inadvertently posted. “The Office” alum asked her followers to share and retweet her apology in an effort to set the record straight. Her original tweet, now deleted, claimed that the newly passed GOP tax bill did away with the $250 deduction that teachers could claim for purchasing their own school supplies for students.

Although an earlier version of the bill did scrap that deduction, the final version signed into law by President Donald Trump just before Christmas kept the deduction, according to The Business Insider. Her original tweet posted on Christmas Eve and since deleted, read “I can’t stop thinking about how school teachers can no longer deduct the cost of their classroom supplies on their taxes…something they shouldn’t have to pay for with their own money in the first place. I mean, imagine if nurses had to go buy their own syringes. #ugh”

Her apology reads, “I was well-intentioned, but I was behind on my research,” Fischer tweeted. Fischer owned up to her mistake and tweeted that, “I’m not ashamed to say I was wrong and I’m not ashamed to correct it. I was taught that taking responsibility is the right thing to do.”