“The United States "is the largest contributor to humanitarian assistance" of any country.”
What PolitiFact found
Based just on the dollar amounts, Biden is correct. But if you factor in the size of each country’s economy, more than 20 nations are more generous than the U.S.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 21 September 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 September 2021. Its rating was “By raw dollars, not share of GDP”.
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
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/09/21/remarks-by-president…
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