“Since the start of my presidency, my economic plan has helped ... achieve zero percent inflation in July.”
What FactCheck.org found
But inflation remains elevated. The overall inflation rate for the past 12 months is 8.5% — a point that Biden and the Democrats tend to gloss over.
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In short
Joe Biden (U.S. President) made this claim around 15 August 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 August 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “Not the Whole Story”.
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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