“Inflation has been at the pre-pandemic level of 2% over the last half year.”
What PolitiFact found
Using two main inflation metrics, the U.S. inflation rate has ranged from 2.6% to 3% over the past six months. The White House said it’s referring to a different calculation that's less familiar to the public.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 4 February 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 February 2024, 3 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
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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