“Raising the debt limit is usually a bipartisan undertaking.”
What PolitiFact found
During the Trump administration, Democrats joined Republicans three times to raise the debt limit. But there have also been times when the party in power had to raise the debt ceiling without the other party’s support.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 4 October 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 October 2021, 2 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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- FactStream: Half-True“Raising the debt limit is usually a bipartisan undertaking.”
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