Joe Biden

“We had Intel come along and say, 'Look, we’re going to invest there.' ... And guess what the average pay is? About 100- to 110,000 bucks a year. And you don’t need a college degree to have the job.”

FactCheck.org says: Intel has said $135,000 is the average salary for thousands of jobs, including those requiring advanced degrees.

“The border wall — the money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get to them to reappropriate it, to redirect that money. They didn’t. ... I can’t stop that.”

FactCheck.org says: The appropriations law from 2019 stated that of the funds for Customs and Border Protection, $1.375 billion would “only” be available “for the construction of barrier system along the southwest border.”

“Under the Obama-Biden administration, we invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the state of Florida replacing wooden power poles with steel poles and we buried these electric lines.”

PolitiFact says: The White House pointed to FEMA grants, which added up to far less than the amount Biden cited, and to smart electrical grid projects, which are not the same as burying power lines.

“Since Joe Biden “has taken office, unemployment in our (Latino) community has been cut in half.”

PolitiFact says: In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Joe Biden’s reelection campaign launched ads targeting Latinos. In one spot, a narrator says Biden has helped the Latino community by lowering its unemployment rate.

“Video shows Donald Trump believes “there has to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions.”

PolitiFact says: Trump said this in 2016 but walked it back the same day. Biden’s ad comes 7 years later and leaves the impression that Trump stood by the remark. We found no evidence he supports penalties for women who have abortions.

“I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years.”

PolitiFact says: Biden served as a professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania starting in 2017. His duties went on for about two years instead of four because he went on unpaid leave in 2019 to run for president.

“Let me say that again: cut Social Security by $700 billion. … They want to raise the Social Security retirement age, which means a 13 percent cut in benefits for seniors who retires at age 67.”

Washington Post says: Biden is bashing a weak GOP plan without offering his own plan.

“Claimed he was at ground zero "the next day" after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.”

FactCheck.org says: Biden first visited the site nine days after terrorists flew planes into the twin towers at the World Trade Center.

“Ground Zero in New York — I remember standing there the next day.”

PolitiFact says: Biden visited the site nine days after the terrorist attacks, not the day after.

“Joe Biden said he visited Ground Zero on September 12, 2001”

“U.S. inflation is "now down close to 3%, the lowest among the world’s leading economies.”

PolitiFact says: Starting in July 2023, the U.S. passed Canada for the lowest inflation rate among the G-7 countries. In a larger grouping of 30-plus large economies, the U.S. has one of the lowest inflation rates, but not the lowest.

“According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to seniors.”

PolitiFact says: The Congressional Budget Office projects 10-year cumulative savings of $161.7 billion from two provisions of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. But $44.3 billion of that will be plowed into other Medicare initiatives.

“My Grandpop Biden, who died very young -- he was -- died in the hospital I was born in six days before I was there.”

Washington Post says: Biden’s paternal grandfather, Joseph H. Biden, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital on Sept. 26, 1941. Biden was born at St. Mary’s Hospital in Scranton, Pa., on Nov. 20, 1942, 14 months later.

“A higher percentage of American workers are working today than ever before.”

PolitiFact says: For several relevant statistical measures, the current level of working Americans trails the record, although two measurements that look only at Americans ages 25 to 54 come close to setting a record.

“I’ve already” declared a national climate emergency”

PolitiFact says: Although Biden has signed legislation and taken executive actions intended to curb climate change, he has not signed a formal emergency declaration, despite urgings of some lawmakers and environmental groups.

“Unemployment has been below 4 percent for the longest stretch in over 50 years -- 50 years.”

FactCheck.org says: Had Biden set the threshold a tick higher, at or below 4% — instead of simply below 4% — then “the longest stretch in over 50 years” would have occurred under President Donald Trump.

“My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China.”

Washington Post says: His son admitted in court in 2023 this was false

“The No. 1 weather-related killer is heat. 600 people die annually from its effects, more than from floods, hurricanes and tornadoes in America combined.”

PolitiFact says: CDC data shows that, on average, heat deaths outpace deaths from floods, hurricanes and tornadoes combined. But scientists say that 600 heat deaths a year is almost certainly too low.

“The Inflation Reduction Act "cuts pollution by 1 billion tons, cuts emissions by 50% by 2030.”

FactCheck.org says: Even with the law, the U.S. still falls short of the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 50% from 2005 by 2030.

“Says that under his presidency, the unemployment rate has “been below 4% for the longest stretch in 50 years in American history.”

PolitiFact says: Under Biden, unemployment has been below 4% for 16 straight months. But his 50-year time frame excludes two longer stretches when unemployment was below 4%.