“I, like an awful lot of people in this audience was the first in my family to go to college.”
Joe Biden
U.S. president. during remarks at a student debt ceremony. Claim dated 8 Apr 2024.
Washington Post rated thisFalse
What Washington Post found
He was not the first to go to college
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (U.S. president) made this claim around 8 April 2024. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 May 2024, 30 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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
- rollcall.comhttps://rollcall.com/factbase/biden/transcript/joe-biden-remarks-student-debt-economy-cam…
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