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Joe Biden
stated on January 24, 2024 in a speech to the United Auto Workers:

“Tens of thousands of auto jobs were lost nationwide during Trump's presidency,” but during Biden’s presidency, “we've created more than 250,000 auto jobs.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on January 25, 2024 in Public appearance:

"There are a thousand billionaires now and you know what their average tax rate is? 8%."

By Sophia Voight • January 26, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on January 8, 2024 in a speech:

“The racial wealth gap is the smallest it’s been in 20 years.”

By Sara Swann • January 12, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on December 5, 2023 in a post on X:

“We’ve created close to 800,000 manufacturing jobs since I’ve taken office.”

By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on November 27, 2023 in remarks at the White House:

Republicans’ “plan would cut Social Security benefits. … Average benefit cut would be 13%.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 29, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on November 14, 2023 in remarks at the White House:

“Last year alone, natural disasters in America caused $178 billion in damages.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on November 1, 2023 in a speech in Northfield, Minn.:

"Over the past four decades, we’ve lost over 400,000 farms in America (and) over 140 million acres of farmland. And that’s an area roughly equal to the size of Minnesota, North and South Dakota combined.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 7, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on October 14, 2023 in remarks at the 2023 Human Rights Campaign National Dinner:

Republicans in Congress are “trying to wipe out federal funding to end the HIV epidemic.”

By Grace Abels • November 3, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on August 5, 2020 in an interview:

"There will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 11, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on August 31, 2023 in a speech:

“Under the Obama-Biden administration, we invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the state of Florida replacing wooden power poles with steel poles and we buried these electric lines."

By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on August 24, 2023 in a campaign ad:

Since Joe Biden “has taken office, unemployment in our (Latino) community has been cut in half."

By Marta Campabadal Graus • September 22, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on August 25, 2023 in an ad:

Video shows Donald Trump believes “there has to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions.

By Samantha Putterman • September 19, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on September 14, 2023 in a speech:

“I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years.”

By Louis Jacobson • September 19, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on September 11, 2023 in a 9/11 memorial speech in Alaska:

“Ground zero in New York — I remember standing there the next day.”

By Louis Jacobson • September 12, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on August 29, 2023 in a speech at the White House:

U.S. inflation is "now down close to 3%, the lowest among the world’s leading economies."

By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on August 29, 2023 in a speech at the White House:

“According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to seniors.”

By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on August 15, 2023 in a speech in Milwaukee:

“A higher percentage of American workers are working today than ever before.”

By Louis Jacobson • August 21, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on August 9, 2023 in an interview with the Weather Channel:

“I’ve already” declared a national climate emergency

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on July 28, 2023 in a speech in Maine:

"Wages are up after being adjusted for inflation."

By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on July 27, 2023 in a speech on extreme heat:

“The No. 1 weather-related killer is heat. 600 people die annually from its effects, more than from floods, hurricanes and tornadoes in America combined.”

By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on June 28, 2023 in a speech in Chicago:

Says that under his presidency, the unemployment rate has “been below 4% for the longest stretch in 50 years in American history.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on June 14, 2023 in a speech:

"We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean."

By Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa • June 22, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on June 15, 2023 in a speech:

"Twenty-six out of every 100 students” in K-12 speak Spanish.

By Maria Briceño • June 21, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on June 10, 2023 in a speech:

In the U.S., “a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon.”

By Grace Abels • June 16, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on May 21, 2023 in a press conference in Hiroshima, Japan:

Said he was “able to convince India, Australia, Japan, and the United States to form an organization called the Quad to maintain stability in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea."

By Louis Jacobson • May 26, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on May 10, 2023 in a speech in New York:

"The Republican plan would cut federal law enforcement officers — 30,000 — including 11,000 FBI agents, 2,000 border agents, DEA agents, and so on."

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 18, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on April 13, 2023 in a speech to the Irish parliament:

“Fewer people get hurt playing rugby” than American football.

By Louis Jacobson • April 14, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on March 28, 2023 in a speech:

In the U.S., “you’re not allowed to own a machine gun.”

By Amy Sherman • April 3, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on February 27, 2023 in An address at the White House:

“We cut Black child poverty in half in 2021 because of the child tax credit.”

By Matthew Crowley • March 22, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on March 13, 2023 in an executive action:

On drilling on federal lands.

By Tom Kertscher • March 15, 2023