“I hear all the folks on TV saying, ‘Why didn’t Biden get this done?’ Well, because Biden only has a majority of, effectively, four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.”
What Washington Post found
There’s no evidence that either Manchin or Sinema vote more with Republicans. But they are certainly more moderate than other Democrats and in a 50-50 Senate, they have the power to block any part of Biden’s agenda.
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In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 1 June 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 June 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
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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