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Joe Biden
stated on January 17, 2025 in a statement:

“The Equal Rights Amendment has become part of our Constitution.”

By Caleb McCullough • January 22, 2025

Joe Biden
stated on July 13, 2024 in a statement to the media:

“The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.”

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on May 14, 2024 in an interview with Yahoo Finance:

Inflation “was 9% when I came to office.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on May 12, 2024 in a fundraising event in Seattle:

“China’s in a situation where they have more retired than working.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 14, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on April 26, 2024 in an interview with Howard Stern:

Says he “got arrested” while protesting in favor of desegregation.

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Jeff Cercone • April 29, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on February 8, 2024 in a speech:

On classified documents in his possession, “none of it was high classified.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 9, 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 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 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 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 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 March 9, 2023 in a speech about his budget proposal:

“More cops are killed responding to domestic violence calls than anything else.”

By Amy Sherman • March 15, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2023 in a speech in Lanham, Maryland:

The “average tax” for billionaires is “about 3%,” which is “a lower tax than a schoolteacher or a firefighter.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on February 7, 2023 in the State of the Union:

“In the past two years, democracies have become stronger, not weaker. Autocracies have grown weaker, not stronger.”

By Samantha Putterman • February 9, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on December 16, 2022 in a town hall for U.S. veterans:

After Joe Biden became vice president, at the behest of his father, he gave his uncle, Frank H. Biden, a Purple Heart for serving in the U.S. military during World War II.

By Yacob Reyes • December 20, 2022

Joe Biden
stated on December 16, 2022 in a speech:

Says he has been to “Afghanistan, Iraq and those areas” twice as president.

By Tom Kertscher • December 20, 2022

Joe Biden
stated on October 27, 2022 in a speech in Syracuse, N.Y.:

The price of gas is “down from over $5 when I took office.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2022

Joe Biden
stated on October 23, 2022 in a forum with Now This:

Student loan forgiveness is “passed. I got it passed by a vote or two. And it’s in effect.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 25, 2022

Joe Biden
stated on July 6, 2022 in a speech in Cleveland:

The “average federal income tax” paid by the richest Americans is “8%. … If you’re a cop, a teacher, a firefighter, union worker, you probably pay two to three times that.”

By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2022

Joe Biden
stated on June 2, 2022 in a speech:

Gun manufacturers are “the only industry in the country” that have immunity from lawsuits.

By Samantha Putterman • June 8, 2022

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