Joe Biden

“And on my watch, for the first time in 10 years, seniors are getting an increase in their Social Security checks. So, checks are going to be up and Medicare payments are going to be down.”

FactCheck.org says: The Part B premium drop follows a larger hike the prior year that was partly due to anticipated Alzheimer’s drug expenses, which ended up not happening. The Social Security increase is set by law and linked to inflation.

“Nobody" in the Republican Party "condemns" the attack on Paul Pelosi "for exactly what it is.”

FactCheck.org says: We found several examples of Republicans condemning the attack or politically motivated violence, generally. We did not find nearly the same number condemning the conspiracy-based rhetoric that may have influenced it.

“On my watch, for the first time in 10 years, seniors are getting an increase in their Social Security checks.”

PolitiFact says: Social Security recipients have received increases in their checks in the form of inflation adjustments for nine of the past 10 years. The adjustments are based on a key inflation measure, as mandated by a 1972 law.

“The price of gas is “down from over $5 when I took office.”

PolitiFact says: When Biden was inaugurated in January 2021, the nationwide average price of gas was about $2.46 per gallon. Gasoline prices did exceed $5, but that peak came more than a year later in June 2022.

“I’m keeping my promise that no one should be in jail merely for using or possessing marijuana.”

FactCheck.org says: The pardon does not apply to people who violated state or local law, and an administration official told reporters that "there are no individuals currently in federal prison solely for simple possession of marijuana."

“Student loan forgiveness is “passed. I got it passed by a vote or two. And it’s in effect.”

PolitiFact says: President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan didn’t pass Congress. And it has been blocked, at least temporarily, in the courts.

“I got student debt forgiveness “passed by a vote or two.”

FactCheck.org says: There was no vote. Biden simply announced that the Department of Education would provide debt relief, and the plan is facing a legal challenge.

“Social Security checks are going up. Medicare premiums are going down. That’s a big deal for seniors.”

Washington Post says: Social Security benefits are up because of inflation and Medicare premiums went up too much the year before/

“The Biden administration has “created” more than double the number of jobs per month, on average, than any other administration going back to George H.W. Bush.”

PolitiFact says: The White House is comparing less than two years under Biden to either four- or eight-year terms for his predecessors. Economists say this puts Biden at an advantage.

“We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.”

PolitiFact says: U.S.-Russian nuclear tensions are unusually high, though maybe not unprecedentedly so. Tactical nuclear detonations by Russia are more plausible now than in recent history, though a literal "Armageddon" is hardly assured

“But we have a very, in relative terms, large Puerto Rican population in Delaware — relative to our population. ... I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically.”

FactCheck.org says: There's something to the fact that Puerto Ricans, more so than other Spanish-speaking groups, settled in Wilmington.

“Medicare Part B premiums "will, in fact, decrease this year. ... For years, that fee has gone up. Now, for the first time in more than a decade, it’s going to go down.”

FactCheck.org says: The president neglected to mention the drop follows a large increase the prior year, partly due to anticipated Alzheimer's drug expenses, which didn't actually materialize.

“Says Ron Johnson "wants to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every single year.”

“The 3.7% unemployment rate is "nearly a 50-year low in our country.”

FactCheck.org says: The unemployment rate was as low as 3.5% in January and February of 2020. The last time the rate was lower than that was when it was 3.4% for nine straight months between 1968 and 1969.

“The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID, we're still doing a lot of work on it, but the pandemic is over.”

FactCheck.org says: Epidemiologists say there’s no single agreed-upon definition for what constitutes the end of a pandemic -- and some say we’re not there yet.

“This year, it's going to be over $1.5 trillion (that we’ve) reduced the debt.”

PolitiFact says: The latest projection shows that the deficit is about $1.7 trillion lower now than it was in 2021. But this is mostly because of an unusual historical circumstance — the expiration of coronavirus pandemic relief.

“Right now, I have the strongest record of growing manufacturing jobs in modern history.”

Washington Post says: Biden is doing a monthly average, comparing himself to one and two term presidencies.

“Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun, five times — is lighter — and can pierce Kevlar?”

Washington Post says: Biden bungled his talking point -- he should have said two times faster.

“If you don’t have the Affordable Care Act, people … with a preexisting cannot get insurance.”

FactCheck.org says: Plenty of Americans with preexisting conditions had insurance before the ACA. Those with employer-based plans had some protections. Insurance policies on the individual market could deny coverage.

“MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards — backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.”

PolitiFact says: The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade makes this possible, but only one justice, Clarence Thomas, advocated for it, and several argued against it in their rulings.