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Joe Biden
stated on August 2, 2024 a written statement

"Since Vice President Harris and I took office … incomes have risen faster than prices."

By Louis Jacobson • August 6, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2024 a speech in Washington D.C.

In 2020, “only nine NATO allies were spending 2%” of their GDP on defense. “This year, 23 will spend at least 2%.”

By Madison Czopek • July 12, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on May 8, 2024 a Biden for President campaign ad

If the Affordable Care Act were terminated, “that would mean over a hundred million Americans will lose protections for preexisting conditions.”

By Jacob Gardenswartz • June 12, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on June 4, 2024 a speech

“Due to the arrangements that I've reached with (Mexico) President Obrador, the number of migrants coming … to our shared border unlawfully in recent months has dropped dramatically.”

By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • June 5, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on April 9, 2024 an interview with Univision

Starting in 2025 "no matter what your total bills are for prescription drugs,” Medicare Part D users will never pay “more than $2,000 a year, because some of these cancer drugs are 10(,000 to) 15,000 bucks a year.”

By Amy Sherman • April 18, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on April 8, 2024 a Facebook post

“Support for Roe is higher today in America than it has ever been."

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • April 10, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on February 22, 2024 in a campaign reception

If you went “anywhere in the world,” you could get a prescription filled for 40% to 60% less than it costs in the U.S.

By Samantha Putterman • March 4, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on December 5, 2023 a post on X

“We’ve created close to 800,000 manufacturing jobs since I’ve taken office.”

By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on November 14, 2023 remarks at the White House

“Last year alone, natural disasters in America caused $178 billion in damages.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on November 1, 2023 a speech in Northfield, Minn.

"Over the past four decades, we’ve lost over 400,000 farms in America (and) over 140 million acres of farmland. And that’s an area roughly equal to the size of Minnesota, North and South Dakota combined.”

By Louis Jacobson, Renee Romo • November 7, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on August 24, 2023 a campaign ad

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

By Marta Campabadal Graus • September 22, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on August 29, 2023 a speech at the White House

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

By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on August 29, 2023 a speech at the White House

“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.”

By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on July 27, 2023 a speech on extreme heat

“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.”

By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on June 28, 2023 a speech in Chicago

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

By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on June 10, 2023 a speech

In the U.S., “a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon.”

By Grace Abels, Nuria Diaz Muñoz • June 16, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on February 27, 2023 An address at the White House

“We cut Black child poverty in half in 2021 because of the child tax credit.”

By Matthew Crowley • March 22, 2023

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

"Studies show that children who go to preschool are nearly 50% more likely to finish high school and go on to earn a two- or four-year degree, no matter their background they came from."

By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on January 5, 2023 a speech

Since a new immigration program was implemented, the number of Venezuelans trying to enter the U.S. illegally decreased “from about 1,100 per day to less than 250 per day on average.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 6, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on December 13, 2022 remarks at the White House

“For the last several months, wages have gone up more than prices have gone up.”

By Louis Jacobson • December 14, 2022

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