“Republicans’ “plan would cut Social Security benefits. … Average benefit cut would be 13%.”
What PolitiFact found
A House Republican proposal supports cuts to beneficiaries by setting a higher retirement age and changing benefit formula. But the proposal is vague, and Biden ignored that his status quo approach could also force cuts.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 27 November 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 November 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/11/27/remarks-by-president…
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