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“Well, first off, Donald Trump walked in with a crappy economy. The number of full-time jobs has been dropping almost the entire Biden administration.”
Rick Scott U.S. Senator. CNN's "State of the Union". Claim dated 9 Mar 2025.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse

What FactCheck.org found

When Biden left office in January, the number of people usually working full time — meaning 35 hours or more a week — was almost 135.9 million. That was up 8.5% from about 125.2 million full-time workers when Biden became president in January 2021.

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Rick Scott (U.S. Senator) made this claim around 9 March 2025. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 March 2025, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.

Rick Scott has 28 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 15 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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