“The last administration enacted a $2 trillion tax cut that overwhelmingly benefits the top 1 percent, the very wealthy and the biggest corporation, and exploded the federal deficit. They added more to the national debt than any presidential term in American history.”
Joe Biden
U.S. president. remarks during the 2024 State of the Union address. Claim dated 7 Mar 2024.
Washington Post rated thisMisleading
What Washington Post found
The tax cut was not the main reason for the increase in the deficit under Trump.
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In short
Joe Biden (U.S. president) made this claim around 7 March 2024. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 March 2024, 1 day later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
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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