“Under the Obama-Biden administration, we invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the state of Florida replacing wooden power poles with steel poles and we buried these electric lines.”
Joe Biden
president. Claim dated 6 Oct 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The White House pointed to FEMA grants, which added up to far less than the amount Biden cited, and to smart electrical grid projects, which are not the same as burying power lines.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 6 October 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 October 2023. Its rating was “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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