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Joe Biden
stated on February 3, 2023 in a speech in Philadelphia:

“We created more new jobs in two years than any president did in their entire term.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on January 25, 2023 in a tweet:

“Two years ago this week, 18 million people were out of work needing unemployment benefits. Today, that number is under 1.6 million, the lowest in decades.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on January 20, 2023 in a speech at the White House:

“One quarter” of today’s $31.4 trillion federal debt “was accumulated in the four years of my predecessor,” Donald Trump.

By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on January 12, 2023 in remarks at the White House:

“Take-home pay for workers is going up.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on October 8, 2022 in an Instagram post:

The Biden administration has “created” more than double the number of jobs per month, on average, than any other administration going back to George H.W. Bush.

By Louis Jacobson • October 13, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on September 18, 2022 in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes":

“This year, it's going to be over $1.5 trillion (that we’ve) reduced the debt."

By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on June 16, 2022 in an interview with the Associated Press:

“In every other major industrial country in the world … inflation is higher.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on May 10, 2022 in remarks at the White House:

“My Treasury Department is planning to pay down the national debt this quarter, which never happened under my predecessor.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 13, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on April 14, 2022 in a speech at North Carolina A&T State University:

"For four years, I was a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania."

By Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on March 1, 2022 in his State of the Union address:

“Our economy created over 6.5 million new jobs just last year, more jobs in one year than ever before in the history of the United States of America.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on January 11, 2022 in a speech on voting rights in Georgia:

“In the 2020 election, President Trump voted from behind the desk in the White House in Florida.”

By Amy Sherman • January 13, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on October 21, 2021 in a town hall in Baltimore:

“We’ve created more jobs in the first eight months of my administration than any president in American history — total number of jobs created.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 22, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on October 7, 2021 in remarks in Elk Grove Village, Ill.:

People who are vaccinated for the coronavirus “cannot spread it to you."

By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on October 4, 2021 in a speech:

“Raising the debt limit is usually a bipartisan undertaking.”

By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on August 20, 2021 in a press conference:

There has been “no question of our credibility from our allies around the world” regarding how the U.S. is withdrawing from Afghanistan.

By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on August 18, 2021 in an interview with ABC News:

“We had already issued several thousand Special Immigrant Visas .. to the (Afghan) translators, when I came into office.”

By Jon Greenberg • August 19, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on July 21, 2021 in a CNN town hall:

“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”

By Amy Sherman • July 22, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on July 2, 2021 in remarks at the White House:

“We have now created over 3 million jobs since I took office, more jobs than have ever been created in the first five months of any presidency in modern history.”

By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on April 21, 2021 in remarks:

Says his administration’s efforts have led to more school reopenings.

By Amy Sherman • April 27, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on February 19, 2021 in a speech:

“The vast majority of the American people” support Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue plan, “including a majority of Republicans.”

By Amy Sherman • February 22, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on February 5, 2021 in an interview on CBS:

“If you're making less than $15 an hour, you're living below the poverty wage.”

By Amy Sherman • February 10, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on December 16, 2020 in a transportation secretary announcement:

“Tens and tens of thousands of bridges are in disrepair, some on the verge of collapse.”

By Jon Greenberg • December 17, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on December 3, 2020 in an interview with CNN:

"People have lost faith in the ability of the vaccine to work. Already, the numbers are really staggeringly low."

By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on October 24, 2020 in a speech in Dallas, Pa.:

Says President Donald Trump "thinks that $15 an hour minimum wage is too much for essential workers."

By Louis Jacobson • October 30, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on October 9, 2020 in a TV campaign ad:

Says Donald Trump “is pushing to slash Medicare benefits."

By Stephanie Stapleton • October 23, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 21, 2020 in a speech:

Says President Donald Trump started a trade war that “led to a surge in farm bankruptcies.”

By Eric Litke • October 2, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 29, 2020 in the first presidential debate:

“Suburbs are by and large integrated.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 27, 2020 in a campaign ad:

The typical elementary school teacher pays $7,239 in federal income taxes, and firefighters pay $5,328, while Donald Trump paid $750.

By Noah Y. Kim • September 29, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 18, 2020 in a video in a tweet:

Says Donald Trump is “the worst jobs president in recorded history."

By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 15, 2020 in a speech at a Florida event:

“24 of every 100 kids in school today speak Spanish.”

By Amy Sherman • September 23, 2020

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