“President Joe Biden "has successfully guided this economy out of the teeth of a terrifying recession.”
What FactCheck.org found
The recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic officially lasted just two months and ended in April 2020.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Pete Buttigieg (Transportation Secretary) made this claim around 17 October 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 October 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “It Ended April 2020”.
Pete Buttigieg has 33 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 17 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
Where the claim appeared
- transcripts.cnn.comhttps://transcripts.cnn.com/show/sotu/date/2021-10-17/segment/01
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