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Fact-checking Biden’s 2021 address to Congress Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, Adriana Usero
Fact-checking Biden’s first Congressional address
Replay Video UP NEXT In his 64-minute address to a joint session of Congress, President Biden was on mostly factual ground when he stuck to the script. But he got in trouble when he ad-libbed some lines that stretched the truth. Here’s a roundup of nine claims that caught our attention. As is our practice with live events, we do not award Pinocchio rankings, which are reserved for complete columns.
“The economy created more than 1.3 million new jobs in 100 days.” This number probably understates how many jobs have been created in the first 100 days. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 916,000 non-farm jobs were created in March and 468,000 in February, for a total of 1,384,000. The April numbers will not be reported until May 7, but given that Biden’s 100th day falls on April 29, that’s almost a m
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Biden remembers son Beau while pushing for more funding for the NIH: Let s end cancer as we know it
From CNN s Maureen Chowdhury Chip Somodevilla/Pool/AP
President Biden remembered his late son Beau Biden while urging for more funding for the National Institute of Health to create an advanced research project agency to focus on developing breakthroughs to prevent, detect and treat diseases like cancer, Alzheimers and diabetes.
Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015. Congress renamed a cancer research bill after him in 2016, Biden s last year as vice president. He recounted that moment during his remarks.
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 Plan creating “millions of jobs” and generating “trillions of dollars in economic growth.” The jobs estimate is accurate, but economic growth projections are mixed.