“Decades ago we used to invest 2% of our GDP on research and development. Today, that’s less than 1%.”
Joe Biden
president. a speech to Congress. Claim dated 28 Apr 2021.
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Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 28 April 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 April 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “Data backs it up”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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