“Over the last decade, the single largest contribution to the debt, aside from the pandemic, were the Trump tax cuts — skewed to the wealthy and large corporations — for $2 trillion.”
Joe Biden
US president. during remarks on the national debt ceiling in Valhalla, N.Y.. Claim dated 10 May 2023.
Washington Post rated thisMisleading
What Washington Post found
The Trump tax cut has not yet reduced revenues by $2 trillion, and Biden is ignoring a Obama tax cut
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In short
Joe Biden (US president) made this claim around 10 May 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 May 2023, 6 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
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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