“Don’t listen to my Republican friends in Congress — last year, we reduced — my budget reduced the — the deficit by $350 billion.”
What FactCheck.org found
Deficits fell between fiscal year 2020 and 2021 far less than initially projected after Biden added to them with more emergency pandemic and infrastructure spending.
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In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 21 April 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 April 2022, 6 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/04/21/remarks-by-president…
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