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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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