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A State of the Union address generally is a product of many hands and is carefully vetted. But State of the Union addresses are political speeches, an argument for the president’s policies, so context is sometimes missing. Here’s a roundup of a dozen claims in Tuesday night’s speech that caught our attention, listed in the order Biden made them.
As is our practice, we do not award Pinocchios in speech roundups.
“15 million new jobs in just three years — a record, a record!”
At the moment, Biden can claim a record for a presidential term, but he is comparing his jobs record for the first three years of his term to the full four-year terms of the previous presidents. That’s misleading. He has no idea what might happen in the last year of this term that could affect the final number.