President Joe Biden announced on April 25 that he would run for reelection in the 2024 campaign. In his video announcement and a speech later that day to a union group, Biden repeated several claims we’ve fact-checked before.
Hearst Television — one of our media partners — produced this fact-checking video segment featuring our article on President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.
Biden’s address to Congress included claims that didn’t tell the full story.
Here’s how the United States has fared since President Joe Biden took office two years ago.
Under President Joe Biden, U.S. exports of goods and services have increased, but U.S. imports have grown even faster. However, on multiple occasions, Biden has given the false impression that rising exports means declining imports and fewer U.S. jobs being outsourced to foreign countries.
Various measures of what has happened in the country since the president’s inauguration.
The most recent statistical measures of how the U.S. has changed since the president took office.
When Joe Biden was sworn in as president, two COVID-19 vaccines had already been authorized and millions of people nationwide had been vaccinated against the disease. But in a May 12 tweet touting economic progress made under Biden, the White House falsely claimed that “there was no vaccine available” at the time he was inaugurated.
The most recent statistical measures of how the U.S. has changed since the president took office.
The president stretched the facts on gas prices, jobs, tax cuts and more.