“He’s proposing to eliminate a tax that pays for almost half of Social Security without any way of making up for that lost revenue, resulting in cuts.”
What Washington Post found
Biden is relying on confusing comments made by President Trump after he signed an executive order that called for a payroll tax holiday after negotiations broke down with Congress on a coronavirus relief package.
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In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 20 August 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 August 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “In dispute”.
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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