“This will not only lower the cost of prescription drugs and health care for families, it will reduce the deficit and help fight inflation.”
What Washington Post found
Inflation is a top concern of Americans these days and the Biden administration is eager to show it is addressing the problem. But any inflation impact of this bill would not be instantaneous.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 15 July 2022. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 July 2022, 7 days later. Its rating was “Not immediate relief”.
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/statements-releases/2022/07/15/statement-by-pres…
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