“We created more new jobs in two years than any president did in their entire term.”
What PolitiFact found
While Biden has easily outpaced every post-war president in job gains per year, he benefited from taking office on the upswing of a deep recession. He also hasn’t faced a recession yet, unlike most of his predecessors.
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In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 4 February 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 February 2023, 4 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
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/2023/02/04/president-biden-at-a…
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