“The cost of an automobile, it's kind of back to what it was before the pandemic.”
What PolitiFact found
New and used car prices began to increase in the summer of 2020, federal data shows. By June 2021, prices were almost 21% above their level right before the pandemic hit. Private-sector data shows the same pattern.
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In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 21 July 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 July 2021, 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
- cincinnati.comhttps://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/21/joe-biden-cnn-town-hall-transcr…
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