Checking Obama's claim about stimulus projects
By Bill Adair
Published on Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 at 11:51 a.m.
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"One of the interesting things about the Recovery Act was most of the projects came in under budget, faster than expected, because there's just not a lot of work there."
Barack Obama, Sunday, November 7th, 2010.
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President Obama was interviewed on "60 Minutes."
When we heard President Barack Obama say on 60 Minutes on Sunday that "most" stimulus projects had come in under budget, and faster than expected, we wondered if that was true.
So we called our colleagues at ProPublica, who have done extensive work on the stimulus, and dug into the facts. We found Obama was stretching the facts and have published our findings on ProPublica and in this Truth-O-Meter item.
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