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Joe Biden
stated on August 20, 2021 in remarks:

Al-Qaida is “gone” from Afghanistan.

By Amy Sherman • August 23, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on August 18, 2021 in an interview with ABC:

On whether withdrawal from Afghanistan would be chaotic

By Amy Sherman • August 20, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on August 18, 2021 in an interview with ABC News:

“We had already issued several thousand Special Immigrant Visas .. to the (Afghan) translators, when I came into office.”

By Jon Greenberg • August 19, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on July 23, 2021 in a speech.:

When Terry McAuliffe was governor, “Unemployment went down in every single county, including rural Virginia by nearly 50%.

By Warren Fiske • July 30, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on July 22, 2021 in a CNN town hall:

"The cost of an automobile, it's kind of back to what it was before the pandemic."

By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on July 21, 2021 in a CNN town hall:

“Ten thousand people have recently died. 9,950 of them, thereabouts, are people who hadn’t been vaccinated."

By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on July 21, 2021 in a CNN town hall:

“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”

By Amy Sherman • July 22, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on July 13, 2021 in a speech in Philadelphia:

"In 2020, more people voted in America than ever in the history of America, in the middle of a once-in-a-century pandemic."

By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on July 2, 2021 in remarks at the White House:

“We have now created over 3 million jobs since I took office, more jobs than have ever been created in the first five months of any presidency in modern history.”

By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on June 23, 2021 in a White House announcement:

"The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own.”

By Jon Greenberg • June 25, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on June 1, 2021 in a speech in Tulsa, Okla.:

"Two members of the Senate," Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, "voted more with my Republican friends" than with the president from their own party.

By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on May 27, 2021 in a speech in Cleveland:

“Now, 50% of all of America, more than any other country, is fully vaccinated.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on May 3, 2021 in remarks on the American Families Plan:

For vaccine rates among Americans 65 and older, “there’s virtually no difference between white, Black, Hispanic, Asian American.”

By Victoria Knight • May 11, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on May 5, 2021 in remarks:

After the American Rescue Plan’s food and nutrition assistance, “hunger is already sharply down in the United States.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on April 21, 2021 in remarks:

Says his administration’s efforts have led to more school reopenings.

By Amy Sherman • April 27, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on April 7, 2021 in remarks at the White House:

“A new, independent study put out last week found that at least 55 of our largest corporations used various loopholes to pay zero federal income tax in 2020.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on April 8, 2021 in a speech:

“You go to a gun show, you can buy whatever you want, and no background check."

By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on March 25, 2021 in a press conference:

Says there was a “28% increase in children to the border in my administration” and “31% … in 2019.” The increase in migration in January, February and March “happens every year.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 26, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on March 25, 2021 in press conference:

“We’re sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 25, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on March 2, 2021 in a news conference:

“When I came into office, the prior administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America.”

By Victoria Knight • March 5, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on March 1, 2021 in remarks with Mexico's president:

"The fastest-growing population in the United States is Hispanic."

By Louis Jacobson • March 3, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on February 19, 2021 in a speech:

“The vast majority of the American people” support Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue plan, “including a majority of Republicans.”

By Amy Sherman • February 22, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on February 16, 2021 in remarks at a CNN town hall:

"If we kept (the minimum wage) indexed to inflation, people would be making $20 an hour right now.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 18, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on February 16, 2021 in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee.:

“There is a consensus among economists left, right, and center… that we can’t spend too much” on COVID-19 relief.

By Jon Greenberg • February 18, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on February 16, 2021 in a CNN town hall:

“For the first time in American history, if you're seeking asylum ... you can't do it from the United States. … You’ve got to seek asylum from abroad.”

By Miriam Valverde • February 17, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on February 5, 2021 in an interview on CBS:

“If you're making less than $15 an hour, you're living below the poverty wage.”

By Amy Sherman • February 10, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on January 27, 2021 in remarks when signing climate change executive orders:

“84% of all new electric capacity planned to come onto the electric grid this year is clean energy.”

By Jon Greenberg • January 29, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on January 7, 2021 in a speech:

In more than 60 cases, judges “looked at the allegations that Trump was making and determined they were without any merit.”

By Amy Sherman • January 8, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on December 16, 2020 in a transportation secretary announcement:

“Tens and tens of thousands of bridges are in disrepair, some on the verge of collapse.”

By Jon Greenberg • December 17, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on December 3, 2020 in an interview with CNN:

"People have lost faith in the ability of the vaccine to work. Already, the numbers are really staggeringly low."

By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2020