Our latest quarterly update on the state of the U.S. during the Biden presidency.
Issues: debt
Biden’s Numbers, January 2024 Update
FactChecking Trump’s Iowa Town Hall
Biden’s Numbers, October 2023 Update
Biden’s Numbers, July 2023 Update
FactChecking Biden’s Reelection Remarks
FactChecking the State of the Union
Biden’s Numbers (Second Quarterly Update)
Biden’s Economic Spin
Biden’s Deficit Spin
In recent speeches, President Joe Biden has been misleadingly taking credit for cutting federal deficits by historic amounts, though most of the reduction in deficits is the result of expiring emergency pandemic spending. Deficits fell between fiscal year 2020 and 2021 far less than initially projected after Biden added to them with more emergency pandemic and infrastructure spending.