No. of Recommendations: 12
You can pick your source but they're all reporting basically the same analysis:
1. Biden on Trump and the national debt:
Biden’s numbers are correct; the national debt rose from about $19.9 trillion to about $27.8 trillion during Trump’s tenure, an increase of about 39% and more than in any other four-year presidential term, in part because of Trump’s major tax cuts.2. The economy has added ‘800,000 new manufacturing jobs’:
Biden’s figure is correct. 3. Biden on the deficit impact of IRA Medicare provisions:
It’s true that two of the main drug price provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, which Democrats pushed through Congress in 2022, are expected to reduce the deficit by $160 billion...4. Biden and the deficit:
Misleading. While it is true that the annual federal budget deficit was more than $1 trillion lower in the 2023 fiscal year, it did so because it had skyrocketed to a record high at the end of Trump’s term.5. Biden's ‘15 million new jobs’ in three years:
Biden’s claim is correct.6. Biden on the corporate minimum tax: This
only applies to companies with at least $1 billion in average annual income. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, only 14 of the companies on its list of 55 non-payers reported having US pre-tax income of at least $1 billion.7. Violent crime has fallen to lowest levels in ‘more than 50 years’:
This is true.And you can read the rest yourself. Basically, his other statements were rated as either "True" or "Needs context," with CNN providing explanations.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/politics/fact-check... 