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Joe Biden
stated on March 1, 2022 in his State of the Union address:

“Our economy created over 6.5 million new jobs just last year, more jobs in one year than ever before in the history of the United States of America.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on February 10, 2022 in a speech:

“Millions of hardworking Americans will no longer have to worry about unexpected medical bills.”

By Victoria Knight • March 1, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on January 27, 2022 in a statement:

Thanks to the American Rescue Plan’s changes to the Affordable Care Act, “four out of five consumers (are) finding quality coverage for under $10 a month.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 2, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on January 19, 2022 in a news conference:

“This country’s working people actually got a raise.”

By Jon Greenberg • January 20, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on January 11, 2022 in a speech in Atlanta:

As a youth, “I got arrested” protesting for civil rights.

By Jeff Cercone • January 13, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on January 11, 2022 in a speech on voting rights in Georgia:

“In the 2020 election, President Trump voted from behind the desk in the White House in Florida.”

By Amy Sherman • January 13, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on December 14, 2021 in an interview:

People vaccinated for COVID-19 “do not spread the disease to anyone else.”

By Amy Sherman • December 22, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on December 12, 2021 in an interview with Rita Braver of CBS:

“I’ve been against that war in Afghanistan from the very beginning.”

By Louis Jacobson • December 15, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on December 3, 2021 in remarks from the White House:

“Even after accounting for rising prices, the typical American family has more money in their pockets than they did last year.”

By Louis Jacobson • December 7, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on November 30, 2021 in a conversation at a technical college in Minnesota:

“I used to drive a tractor trailer … I only did it for part of a summer.”

By Jon Greenberg • December 3, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on December 1, 2021 in remarks at the White House:

"The number of small businesses is up 30% compared to before the pandemic."

By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on November 3, 2021 in a news conference.:

“No governor in Virginia has ever won when...he or she is the same party as the sitting president.”

By Warren Fiske • November 12, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on November 2, 2021 in a press conference in Glasgow:

“Wages have gone up higher, faster than inflation.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on October 21, 2021 in a town hall in Baltimore:

“We’ve created more jobs in the first eight months of my administration than any president in American history — total number of jobs created.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 22, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on October 7, 2021 in remarks in Elk Grove Village, Ill.:

People who are vaccinated for the coronavirus “cannot spread it to you."

By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on October 6, 2021 in remarks at the White House:

“Raising the debt limit is paying our old debts. It has nothing to do with new spending.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 13, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on October 5, 2021 in a speech in Howell, Mich.:

"Thirty years ago, the United States ranked sixth among advanced economies in the share of women in the workforce. You know where we are today? Twenty-three.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on October 4, 2021 in a speech:

“Raising the debt limit is usually a bipartisan undertaking.”

By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on August 26, 2021 in a proclamation:

Women are "disproportionately impacted by voter ID laws — especially married women who change their names, or those whose IDs do not accurately reflect their gender."

By Amy Sherman • September 7, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on August 20, 2021 in a press conference:

There has been “no question of our credibility from our allies around the world” regarding how the U.S. is withdrawing from Afghanistan.

By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2021
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