“The cost of an automobile is kind of back to what it was before the pandemic.”
What FactCheck.org found
The Consumer Price Index for new and used cars in cities was up about 20% between January 2020 and June of this year. But a car price expert says that's partly because people are buying bigger, more expensive cars.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 21 July 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 July 2021, 1 day 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
- transcripts.cnn.comhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2107/21/se.01.html
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