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Latest Fact-Checks On Joe Biden

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 27, 2021 in a speech in Cleveland:
“Now, 50% of all of America, more than any other country, is fully vaccinated.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 8, 2021 in a speech:
“You go to a gun show, you can buy whatever you want, and no background check."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 25, 2021 in a press conference:
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.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 26, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 2, 2021 in a news conference:
“When I came into office, the prior administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America.”
Mostly False
By Victoria Knight • March 5, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 1, 2021 in remarks with Mexico's president:
"The fastest-growing population in the United States is Hispanic."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 3, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 16, 2021 in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee.:
“There is a consensus among economists left, right, and center… that we can’t spend too much” on COVID-19 relief.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 18, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 16, 2021 in a CNN town hall:
“For the first time in American history, if you're seeking asylum ... you can't do it from the United States. … You’ve got to seek asylum from abroad.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • February 17, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on November 18, 2020 in a virtual roundtable:
“666,000 teachers have been laid off already since March."
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • November 20, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 22, 2020 in the final 2020 presidential debate:
As part of the Obama administration's criminal justice reforms, “38,000 prisoners were released from federal prison.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • October 23, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 29, 2020 in the first presidential debate:
“We have a higher deficit with China now than we did before.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 9, 2020 in an event in Detroit:
“$400,000 ... is more money than I’ve ever made” in a year.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 3, 2020 in a community meeting:
“A Black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison.”
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • September 4, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 1, 2020 in a campaign ad:
"If Trump gets his way, Social Security benefits will run out in just three years from now.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 4, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2020 in a speech:
On COVID-19, Donald Trump said that “maybe if you drank bleach you may be okay.”
Mostly False
By Jessica Calefati • July 11, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 20, 2020 in a virtual town hall:
“40% of the initial small business funds didn’t go to small businesses at all.”
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • May 26, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 27, 2020 in a virtual town hall on CNN:
“There was no effort” to get American experts into China after it announced the coronavirus, and “we had one person in-country (and Trump) pulled him out of the country.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 3, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 15, 2020 in a Democratic primary debate:
The World Health Organization offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them. We did not want to buy them.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg, Victoria Knight • March 16, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 23, 2020 in an MSNBC interview:
Says Bernie Sanders “opposed Obamacare, didn't like the fact we didn't push a single-payer option.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • February 27, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 3, 2020 in a brief interview:
Says he did not tell former President Barack Obama "don’t go" after Osama bin Laden
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • January 6, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 13, 2019 in a rally in San Antonio, Texas.:
"I (found) the Republican votes for the Recovery Act, Obamacare, help us from falling into a Great Depression."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2019
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