“When Joe Biden “walked into this administration … 20 million people were on unemployment insurance benefits.”
What PolitiFact found
By Biden's inauguration, fewer than 5 million Americans were collecting continuing unemployment insurance, or just a quarter of what Jean-Pierre said.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Karine Jean-Pierre (White House press secretary) made this claim around 13 June 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 June 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Karine Jean-Pierre has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/06/13/press-briefing-by-pre…
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