“Let me say that again: cut Social Security by $700 billion. … They want to raise the Social Security retirement age, which means a 13 percent cut in benefits for seniors who retires at age 67.”
Joe Biden
U.S. president. remarks during a speech in Maryland. Claim dated 14 Sep 2023.
Washington Post rated thisLacks context
What Washington Post found
Biden is bashing a weak GOP plan without offering his own plan.
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In short
Joe Biden (U.S. president) made this claim around 14 September 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 September 2023, 5 days later. Its rating was “Lacks context”.
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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