“Forecasters on Wall Street project that over the next 10 years our economy will expand by trillions of dollars, and it [the infrastructure bill] will create an additional 2 million jobs a year beyond what was already projected.”
What FactCheck.org found
Biden is likely citing instead an economic forecast that includes the much larger and partisan "human infrastructure" bill.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 10 August 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 August 2021, 2 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/2021/08/10/remarks-by-president…
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