“The Republican plan would cut federal law enforcement officers — 30,000 — including 11,000 FBI agents, 2,000 border agents, DEA agents, and so on.”
Joe Biden
president. Claim dated 10 May 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
What Biden presents as certain is really more of a guess. The White House made assumptions for broad cuts prescribed in the House-passed Republican bill; the measure does not say it would cut those numbers.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 10 May 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 May 2023, 8 days later. Its rating was “Mostly 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.
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