Joe Biden

“Independent analysis shows that if we pass this plan, the economy will create 19 million jobs — good jobs, blue-collar jobs, jobs that pay well.”

Washington Post says: The president uses finely-tuned language that sometimes leaves the wrong impression -- and which other administration officials have bungled.

“On the new Georgia voting law: “You’re going to close a polling place at 5 o’clock when working people just get off.”

FactCheck.org says: The new law sets the minimum hours for early voting on weekdays at 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. County officials can keep early voting locations open for longer, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

“Independent analysis shows that if we pass this [infrastructure] plan, the economy will create 19 million jobs — good jobs, blue-collar jobs, jobs that pay well.”

FactCheck.org says: A Moody's analysis concluded that even if the American Jobs Plan does not pass, the U.S. economy would add 16.3 million jobs over the next decade. The plan would provide an additional 2.7 million jobs.

“What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It’s sick. It’s sick … deciding that you’re going to end voting at five o’clock when working people are just getting off work.”

Washington Post says: Not a single expert we consulted who has studied the law understood why Biden made this claim, as this was the section of law that expanded early voting for many Georgians.

“The U.S. is expelling most families attempting to cross the border.”

“Says there was a “28% increase in children to the border in my administration” and “31% … in 2019.” The increase in migration in January, February and March “happens every year.”

PolitiFact says: The number of children arriving at the border grew 63% from January to February 2021, more than double the rate Biden cited. The increase was about 33% in 2019, roughly in line with his claim.

“The 1994 assault weapons ban "brought down these mass killings.”

FactCheck.org says: The raw numbers, when adjusted for population and other factors, aren’t so clear on that.

“Back in the ‘60s, we used to invest a little over 2% of our entire (gross domestic product) in pure research and investment in science. Today it’s 0.7%.”

PolitiFact says: Data from the National Science Foundation shows that federal spending as a percentage of gross domestic product hit a high of almost 1.9% in 1964 and has generally fallen since then, to 0.6% in 2017.

“There has been a "28% increase in children to the border in my administration.”

FactCheck.org says: The increase is 63%.

“Well, look, the idea that I’m going to say, which I would never do, that if an unaccompanied child ends up at the border, we’re just going to let them starve to death and stay on the other side — no previous administration did that either, except Trump.”

Washington Post says: Many reports of malnutrition but none of death by starvation.

“We’re sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming.”

PolitiFact says: Border Patrol data shows that in February the majority of families were not expelled; they were let in and placed in immigration proceedings.

“We can ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country once again. I got that done when I was a senator. It passed. It was the law for the longest time. And it brought down these mass killings.”

Washington Post says: For years, the 1994 law was seen as largely ineffective. But new research bolsters the argument that the ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines had an impact on mass shootings.

“We’ve made it possible for you to get a vaccine at nearly any one of 10,000 pharmacies across the country, just like you get your flu shot.”

FactCheck.org says: The Biden administration has made it possible to get vaccines at pharmacies -- but not without the advance planning of the past two administrations.

“Las muertes por covid-19 en EEUU superan la de las dos guerras mundiales, Vietnam y los ataques del 11 de septiembre”

“The vast majority of the people, the 11 million undocumented, they’re not Hispanics.”

Washington Post says: Hispanics make up the majority of undocumented immigrants

“America will be the first country -- perhaps the only one" -- to administer 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines.”

FactCheck.org says: That’s true, but per capita the U.S. is not tops in the world in vaccinations. Israel has administered about four times as many doses per 100 people than the U.S.

“The fastest-growing population in the United States is Hispanic.”

PolitiFact says: Hispanics are actually the second-fastest-growing group in the U.S., after Asian-Americans.

“If the minimum wage was indexed to "inflation, people would be making 20 bucks an hour right now.”

“Referring to the refundable child tax credit, "if we get this done, it will cut child poverty in half.”

PolitiFact says: Experts said the analyses undergirding Biden’s assertion are credible, though it’s worth noting that the drop in child poverty would only last for one year under the current proposal.

“An analysis by the Wall Street firm Moody’s estimates that if we pass my American Rescue Plan, the economy will create 7 million jobs this year.”

FactCheck.org says: The financial services firm said 3.5 million of those jobs would be created regardless.