“Says he was the first person to call for invoking the Defense Production Act.”
What PolitiFact found
Biden was far from the first official to call for use of the Defense Production Act to boost manufacturing of urgently needed medical supplies.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 2 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 September 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “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
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnJuPNhPBE4
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