“The Biden administration inherited gains of “50,000 jobs a month. We're now finally back to 500,000 jobs a month. We inherited a country where 4,000 people a day were dying from Covid. That's now down 75%.”
What PolitiFact found
The Biden administration can trumpet improvements in both employment and the coronavirus pandemic, but Klain’s numbers are off.
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In short
Ron Klain (White House chief of staff) made this claim around 7 November 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 November 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Ron Klain has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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