“This isn’t going to be anything like my predecessor, whose unpaid tax cuts and other spending added nearly $8 trillion in his four years to the national debt.”
What FactCheck.org found
The total debt figure is correct, but trillions of that were due to bipartisan coronavirus relief packages.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 11 August 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 August 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Not the Whole Story”.
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/2021/08/11/remarks-by-president…
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