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WASHINGTON (AP) - Taking a swipe at his predecessor, President Joe Biden gave a distorted account of the historical forces driving migrants to the U.S....

FACT CHECK: Biden skews record on migrants; GOP on virus Elliot Spagat and Josh Boak Associated Press Washington — Taking a swipe at his predecessor, President Joe Biden gave a distorted account of the historical forces driving migrants to the U.S. border, glossing over the multitudes who were desperate to escape poverty in their homelands when he was vice president. In his speech to Congress on Wednesday night, Biden also made his spending plans sound more broadly supported in Washington t...

Summary In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden got some facts wrong and stretched others, mainly repeated claims we’ve heard before: Biden said he inherited the “worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.” But when he took office, the economy had recovered some from its low point earlier in the pandemic. He repeated the debunked claim that he had “traveled over 17,000 miles” with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Biden referred to the American Jobs...

From skewing the record on migrants to saying prescription drug prices will fall if Congress authorizes Medicare: President Bidens speech fact checked Biden gave his first address to Congress Wednesday night where he spoke of his administration’s first 100 days in office and his plans for Americas future The president gave a distorted account of the historical forces driving migrants to the US border He made his spending plans sound better supported in DC than they are  He also argued Congre...

Angelo Fichera, DAngelo Gore, Eugene Kiely and Robert Farley FactCheck.org In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden got some facts wrong and stretched others, mainly repeated claims we’ve heard before: Biden said he inherited the “worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.” But when he took office, the economy had recovered some from its low point earlier in the pandemic. He repeated the debunked claim that he had “traveled over 17,000 miles”...

Here's a look at some of his claims.

Apr 29, 2021 In this May 7, 2020, file photo, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks during a Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on new coronavirus tests on Capitol Hill in Washington. Tim Scott gave his party’s nationally televised response to President Joe Biden’s Wednesday night address to Congress. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — Taking a swipe at his predecessor, President Joe Biden gave a distorted account of the historical forces drivi...

FACT CHECK: Biden skews record on migrants; GOP on coronavirus Updated 6:38 AM; Today 6:38 AM President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP Facebook Share WASHINGTON (AP) — Taking a swipe at his predecessor, President Joe Biden gave a distorted account of the historical forces driving migrants to the U.S. border, glossing over the multitudes who were desperate to escap...

AP Fact Check: Biden skews record on migrants, support for his spending plans President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress on Wednesday in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP   Associated Press Posted4/29/2021 12:05 AM WASHINGTON -- Taking a swipe at his predecessor, President Joe Biden gave a distorted account of the historical forces driving migrants to the U.S. border, glossing over the multitudes who were desperate to...

FERREIROLA, Spain As climate change-related disasters become ever more common, they have given rise to increasingly dire warnings about impending mass migration by those displaced. This tendency to focus on movement has largely, if unintentionally, obscured an equally important question: why people don’t move.  An emerging group of experts is arguing that dominant narratives around climate migration – focused on doomsday scenarios of large numbers of people relocating from the Global South...