“We’ve created close to 800,000 manufacturing jobs since I’ve taken office.”
What PolitiFact found
The number is right, and comparing historical patterns 45 months out from a recession’s onset reveals Biden-era manufacturing employment to be the strongest in 72 years.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 6 December 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 December 2023, 8 days later. Its rating was “Mostly 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.
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