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Latest Fact-Checks On Joe Biden

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 27, 2021 remarks when signing climate change executive orders:
“84% of all new electric capacity planned to come onto the electric grid this year is clean energy.”
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • January 29, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 7, 2021 a speech:
In more than 60 cases, judges “looked at the allegations that Trump was making and determined they were without any merit.”
True
By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde • January 8, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 16, 2020 a transportation secretary announcement:
“Tens and tens of thousands of bridges are in disrepair, some on the verge of collapse.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • December 17, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 3, 2020 an interview with CNN:
"People have lost faith in the ability of the vaccine to work. Already, the numbers are really staggeringly low."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on November 18, 2020 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 November 18, 2020 a roundtable with healthcare workers:
The law governing the transition of presidential power “doesn’t require there to be an absolute winner. It says the ‘apparent' winner.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • November 19, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 31, 2020 a rally:
"I’ve released 22 years of my tax returns. You can go online and look. (Donald Trump) hasn’t released one.”
True
By Bill McCarthy • October 31, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 24, 2020 a speech in Dallas, Pa.:
Says President Donald Trump "thinks that $15 an hour minimum wage is too much for essential workers."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 30, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 25, 2020 a "60 Minutes" interview:
“I can send every qualified person to a four-year college in their state for $150 billion.”
False
By Noah Y. Kim • October 30, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 22, 2020 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 October 9, 2020 a TV campaign ad:
Says Donald Trump “is pushing to slash Medicare benefits."
Half-True
By Stephanie Stapleton • October 23, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 15, 2020 a town hall:
“The boilermakers union has endorsed me because I sat down with them and went into great detail with leadership [about] exactly what I would do.”
False
By Jessica Calefati • October 21, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 15, 2020 an ABC town hall:
"They eliminated the funding for community policing."
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 10, 2020 a comment to reporters:
Senate Republicans' move to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in an election year is "not constitutional."
False
By Bill McCarthy • October 13, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 21, 2020 Speech:
“All the billionaires in America, their net worth combined … has increased by $800 billion” during the pandemic.
Mostly True
By Nusaiba Mizan • October 12, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 5, 2020 an NBC town hall in Miami:
During the Obama/Biden administration “18,000 people got clemency.”
False
By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 5, 2020 an NBC town hall in Miami:
The president's own FBI director said that the greatest domestic terrorist threat is white supremacists.
True
By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 21, 2020 a speech:
Says President Donald Trump started a trade war that “led to a surge in farm bankruptcies.”
Half-True
By Eric Litke • October 2, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 21, 2020 a speech:
“If you just count all the deaths in the red states, we are number two in the world in deaths, just behind Brazil.”
Mostly True
By Madeline Heim • October 1, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 29, 2020 in comments during the first presidential debate:
“There's 100 million people that have preexisting conditions.”
Mostly True
By Victoria Knight • October 1, 2020
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