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Joe Biden
stated on January 17, 2025 a statement

“The Equal Rights Amendment has become part of our Constitution.”

By Caleb McCullough • January 22, 2025

Joe Biden
stated on July 13, 2024 a statement to the media

“The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.”

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on May 14, 2024 an interview with Yahoo Finance

Inflation “was 9% when I came to office.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on May 12, 2024 a fundraising event in Seattle

"China's in a situation where they have more retired than working."

By Louis Jacobson • May 14, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on April 26, 2024 an interview with Howard Stern

Says he “got arrested” while protesting in favor of desegregation.

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Jeff Cercone • April 29, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on February 8, 2024 a speech

On classified documents in his possession, “none of it was high classified.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 9, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on January 25, 2024 Public appearance

"There are a thousand billionaires now and you know what their average tax rate is? 8%."

By Sophia Voight • January 26, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on August 31, 2023 a speech

“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."

By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on September 11, 2023 a 9/11 memorial speech in Alaska

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

By Louis Jacobson • September 12, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on August 9, 2023 an interview with the Weather Channel

“I’ve already” declared a national climate emergency

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on June 14, 2023 a speech

"We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean."

By Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa • June 22, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on March 9, 2023 a speech about his budget proposal

“More cops are killed responding to domestic violence calls than anything else.”

By Amy Sherman • March 15, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2023 a speech in Lanham, Maryland

The “average tax” for billionaires is “about 3%,” which is “a lower tax than a schoolteacher or a firefighter."

By Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on February 7, 2023 the State of the Union

“In the past two years, democracies have become stronger, not weaker. Autocracies have grown weaker, not stronger.”

By Samantha Putterman • February 9, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on December 16, 2022 a town hall for U.S. veterans

After Joe Biden became vice president, at the behest of his father, he gave his uncle, Frank H. Biden, a Purple Heart for serving in the U.S. military during World War II.

By Yacob Reyes • December 20, 2022

Joe Biden
stated on December 16, 2022 a speech

Says he has been to “Afghanistan, Iraq and those areas” twice as president.

By Tom Kertscher • December 20, 2022

Joe Biden
stated on October 27, 2022 a speech in Syracuse, N.Y.

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

By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2022

Joe Biden
stated on October 23, 2022 a forum with Now This

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

By Louis Jacobson • October 25, 2022

Joe Biden
stated on July 6, 2022 a speech in Cleveland

The “average federal income tax” paid by the richest Americans is “8%. … If you’re a cop, a teacher, a firefighter, union worker, you probably pay two to three times that.”

By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2022

Joe Biden
stated on June 2, 2022 a speech

Gun manufacturers are “the only industry in the country” that have immunity from lawsuits.

By Samantha Putterman • June 8, 2022

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