Joe Biden

“People who are vaccinated for the coronavirus “cannot spread it to you.”

PolitiFact says: Multiple studies show that a vaccinated person is significantly less likely to pass the coronavirus to someone else than an unvaccinated person is. However, the transmission risk is not reduced to zero.

“Raising the debt limit is paying our old debts. It has nothing to do with new spending.”

PolitiFact says: New spending initiatives, such as the two bills Biden is currently backing in Congress, were not the immediate cause of the debt limit increase that Democrats in Congress enacted. But they aren’t entirely irrelevant.

“Thirty years ago, the United States ranked sixth among advanced economies in the share of women in the workforce. You know where we are today? Twenty-three.”

PolitiFact says: The United States used to rank near the top of industrialized nations in women's labor force participation rate, but in the past 30 years, many countries have leapfrogged the U.S.

“Raising the debt limit is usually a bipartisan undertaking.”

FactStream says: During the Trump administration, Democrats joined Republicans three times to raise the debt limit. But there have also been times when the party in power had to raise the debt ceiling without the other party’s support.

“Raising the debt limit is usually a bipartisan undertaking.”

PolitiFact says: During the Trump administration, Democrats joined Republicans three times to raise the debt limit. But there have also been times when the party in power had to raise the debt ceiling without the other party’s support.

“La creación de empleo reciente en EEUU se debe solo al Plan de Rescate”

“My Build Back Better Agenda costs zero dollars.”

Washington Post says: Biden's spending plans are on track to add to the deficit

“Top U.S. military advisers didn’t recommend that President Biden keep a residual force in Afghanistan.”

FactCheck.org says: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Mark Milley and Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, said in a Sept. 28 hearing they believe the U.S. should have left a residual force of at least 2,500 troops.

“The United States "is the largest contributor to humanitarian assistance" of any country.”

PolitiFact says: Based just on the dollar amounts, Biden is correct. But if you factor in the size of each country’s economy, more than 20 nations are more generous than the U.S.

“I used to tell [former senator] Frank Church this — I got a — my first job offer, where I wanted — my wife — deceased wife and I wanted to move to Idaho because we think — not a joke — because it’s such a beautiful, beautiful state. And I interviewed for a job with Boise Cascade.”

Washington Post says: Biden has spoken in the past of nearly practicing law in Boise

“Al-Qaida is “gone” from Afghanistan.”

PolitiFact says: A U.N. report in June said that al-Qaida is present in at least 15 Afghan provinces in the range of several dozen to 500 persons.

“Instead of having a counterterrorism capability to have small forces there in — or in the region to be able to take on al-Qaeda if it tried to reconstitute, we decided to engage in nation building. In nation building. That never made any sense to me.”

Washington Post says: Biden's position has evolved in ways that he does not easily acknowledge

“On whether withdrawal from Afghanistan would be chaotic”

PolitiFact says: Biden said in July that a takeover by the Taliban was not inevitable. After withdrawal, Biden said on ABC, “The idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don't know how that happens.”

“What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point with al Qaeda gone?”

FactCheck.org says: In May, U.N. sanctions monitors reported that al Qaeda "is resident in at least 15 Afghan provinces.

“Says his administration has issued several thousand special visas to Afghan translators.”

PolitiFact says: The number is about right, but most of the visas went to family members of people who worked for American agencies or the U.S. military.

“We trained and equipped an Afghan military force of some 300,000 strong — incredibly well equipped — a force larger in size than the militaries of many of our NATO allies.”

Washington Post says: Biden is including police forces, and even the military is not that functional.

“According to one study, from 2016 to 2020, pharmaceutical companies spent $577 billion in stock buybacks and dividends — $56 billion more than what they spent on all research and development over that same period of time.”

Washington Post says: A common way to measure a company’s investment in research and development is as a percentage of revenue. Drug companies are are at or near the top of industries that invest in research and development.

“This isn’t going to be anything like my predecessor, whose unpaid tax cuts and other spending added nearly $8 trillion in his four years to the national debt.”

FactCheck.org says: The total debt figure is correct, but trillions of that were due to bipartisan coronavirus relief packages.

“Forecasters on Wall Street project that over the next 10 years our economy will expand by trillions of dollars, and it [the infrastructure bill] will create an additional 2 million jobs a year beyond what was already projected.”

FactCheck.org says: Biden is likely citing instead an economic forecast that includes the much larger and partisan "human infrastructure" bill.

“Despite bipartisan support for consumer incentives, [the Trump administration] also let the federal tax credit expire, penalizing autoworkers who were, at the time, selling the most electric vehicles in the world — in the United States.”

FactCheck.org says: Models made by Tesla and General Motors are no longer eligible, but dozens of electric cars and trucks still qualify for a federal tax credit of up to $7,500 for buyers purchasing new plug-in electric vehicles.