“President Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) plan “is fully paid for, or even more than fully paid for. And CBO just completed a comprehensive review of it in which they found essentially the same thing.”
Janet Yellen
Treasury Secretary. remarks during a Senate Banking hearing. Claim dated 30 Nov 2021.
Washington Post rated thisTwo Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
The CBO's estimate, with or without IRS tax enforcement, found a budget deficit.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Janet Yellen (Treasury Secretary) made this claim around 30 November 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 December 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “Two Pinocchios”.
Janet Yellen has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- washingtonpost.comhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/01/yellens-claim-that-cbo-found-biden-pla…
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