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Claim: claims former President Donald Trump purportedly said he 'forgot to give back some paperwork' in a recent TRUTH Social post (Post, 2023-06-10)
Evidence (2024-05-31): "I hope every juror is doxxed and they pay for what they have done," another user wrote on Trump’s Truth Social platform Thursday. "May God strike them dead. We will on November 5th and they will pay!" [...] The threats fit into an ongoing pattern. An NBC News analysis of Trump’s Truth Social posts earlier this year showed that he frequently uses the platform as a megaphone to attack people involved in his legal cases — and some of his supporters have responded. When the FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022, a Trump supporter who had been at the Capitol on Jan. 6 sent angry posts about the search and then attacked an FBI field office. When Trump made a social media post last June that included former President Barack Obama’s home address, a Jan. 6 rioter reposted it and then showed up at the residence. When Trump was indicted in Georgia in August, his supporters posted the purported names and addresses of members of the grand jury. Special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing Trump’s federal election interference case in Washington, was the target of an attempted swatting on Christmas Day. So too was U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who will oversee that trial, if the Supreme Court allows it to go forward (though that could change if Trump wins in November).
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-08-16): The debt has increased, not decreased. The reduced deficit can largely be attributed to COVID-19 related spending expiring.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-05-11): The tweet stated: "BIDEN: 'In my first two years, I reduced the debt by $1.7 trillion.' [...] The Biden administration has not reduced the national debt by $1.7 trillion. It has increased by about $3.5 trillion during Biden's term in office. The national debt has not decreased year-on-year since the late 1950s. [...] However, the clip shared on Twitter which highlighted this claim omitted a correction of sorts shortly after, where Biden said the $1.7 trillion reduction was from the deficit, not the debt.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-12-05): But the national debt has continued to increase under Biden, and the final deficit for fiscal 2023, which ended on Sept. 30, increased to roughly $1.7 trillion, or about $320 billion more than the almost $1.4 trillion deficit in fiscal 2022. In his Nov. 29 remarks, Biden claimed to have reduced the deficit by "over $7 billion," when he meant to say "over $1 trillion," according to a White House transcript that corrected the president’s statement. Deficits have declined from the record of $3.1 trillion in fiscal 2020, before Biden took office. But as we’ve explained, the primary reason that deficits went down by about $350 billion in Biden’s first year, and by another $1.3 trillion in his second, is because of emergency COVID-19 funding that expired in those years.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-09-06): The deficit projection from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and its tally for fiscal year 2022 do not include President Joe Biden’s federal student debt cancellation plan, which the Supreme Court struck down earlier this year before it took effect. The US Treasury Department lists the fiscal year 2022 deficit as $1.4 trillion because it takes into account the cost of the president’s proposal. The agency is expected to report that the current fiscal year’s deficit will be about $1.7 trillion because it will reflect the cancellation of Biden’s initiative. [...] The spike also throws a wrench into Biden’s repeated claim that he cut the deficit by $1.7 trillion in his first two years in office – which he again said during a Labor Day speech in Philadelphia. Experts have said it’s highly questionable how much credit Biden deserves since the drop in the deficit largely stemmed from the expiration of the emergency pandemic programs.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-03-09): The President took office after his predecessor signed into law a reckless and unpaid for tax cut that was skewed to the wealthy and large corporations, adding nearly $2 trillion to the deficit. He also inherited a poorly managed pandemic response. The President has taken a different, responsible approach. He enacted a bold agenda to rescue the economy and get the American people vaccinated. Because of the strength of the recovery and responsible winding down of emergency programs, the deficit fell by $1.7 trillion in the first two years of the Biden-Harris Administration compared to the year before the President took office. And the Inflation Reduction Act that the President signed into law last year will reduce the deficit by more than $200 billion over the next decade, relative to deficit projections without that law. [...] The President’s Budget improves the Nation’s fiscal outlook and reduces long-term fiscal risks by reducing the deficit, stabilizing deficits as a share of the economy, and keeping the economic burden of debt within historical norms. Specifically, the Budget reduces the deficit by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade, compared to deficits without the President’s policies. The deficit reduction in the Budget increases over time, with $500 billion of deficit reduction in 2033.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2022-05-04): President Joe Biden on Wednesday tried to cast his administration as spending hawks, touting sizable reductions in the federal deficit this fiscal year as a key departure from what he characterized as rampant spending by his Republican predecessor. [...] The president's more-modest budget proposal doesn't include a majority of the cost of Biden's massive Build Back Better agenda, a transportation and technology infrastructure program that Democrats haven't been able to pass. The administration priced the plan at $1.75 trillion, but it phased out some of the programs that would likely be permanent to reduce the price tag on paper. The Congressional Budget Office estimated its costs at around $4.73 trillion if the programs were permanent. [...] "We're on track to cut the federal deficit by another — another — $1.5 trillion by the end of this fiscal year, the biggest decline in a single year in American history," Biden said from the White House.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2022-09-18): This decrease of more than $1.7 trillion is in line with the "over $1.5 trillion" figure Biden cited in the interview (although, officially, this number is a moving target until the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30). [...] Spending programs passed earlier in the pandemic began expiring this year, meaning federal outlays have declined. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonprofit public policy group, has estimated that more than 80% of the $1.7 trillion reduction in the deficit can be explained by expiring or shrinking COVID-19 relief. The White House argued in an exchange with PolitiFact that revenues have also risen because of improvements in the economy. [...] Without the reduced deficits Biden referred to, the federal debt would have been higher than $24.3 trillion, probably $1.7 trillion higher, if we use CBO’s estimate.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2022-10-21): Remarks by President Biden on Historic Deficit Reduction [...] Today, my administration announced that this year the deficit fell by $1.4 trillion — the largest one-year drop in American history — $1.4 trillion decline in the deficit. [...] Let me be clear: This record deficit reduction includes the cost of my student loan plan and everything else we’re paying for. The deficit is down $1.4 trillion this year, even after accounting for 30 years of debt relief paid in advance.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2022-08-23): By — Fatima Hussein, Associated Press Fatima Hussein, Associated Press Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-administration-forecasts-1-03-trillion-deficit-down-by-nearly-400-billion Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Biden administration forecasts $1.03 trillion deficit, down by nearly $400 billion Politics Aug 23, 2022 5:50 PM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is forecasting that this year’s budget deficit will be nearly $400 billion lower than it estimated back in March, due in part to stronger than expected revenues, reduced spending, and an economy that has recovered all of the jobs lost during the multi-year pandemic. In full, this year’s deficit will decline by $1.7 trillion, representing the single largest decline in the federal deficit in American history, the Office of Management and Budget says. Despite the gains, the administration said Tuesday that it is forecasting a deficit of $1.03 trillion for the budget year that ends Sept. 30. That number signifies a movement away from the record deficit in 2020, which reached $3.13 trillion.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-02-07): Biden claimed his administration cut the federal deficit by "more than $1.7 trillion." Facts First: Biden’s boast leaves out important context. It is true that the federal deficit fell by $1.7 trillion under Biden in the 2021 and 2022 fiscal years, including a record $1.4 trillion drop in 2022 – but it is highly questionable how much credit Biden deserves for this reduction. Biden did not mention that the primary reason the deficit fell so substantially was that it had skyrocketed to a record high under then-President Donald Trump in 2020 because of bipartisan emergency pandemic relief spending, then fell as expected when the spending expired as planned. Independent analysts say Biden’s own actions, including his laws and executive orders, have had the overall effect of adding to current and projected future deficits, not reducing those deficits. Dan White, senior director of economic research at Moody’s Analytics – an economics firm whose assessments Biden has repeatedly cited during his presidency – told CNN’s Matt Egan in October: "On net, the policies of the administration have increased the deficit, not reduced it." The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, an advocacy group, wrote in September that Biden’s actions will add more than $4.8 trillion to deficits from 2021 through 2031, or $2.5 trillion if you don’t count the American Rescue Plan pandemic relief bill of 2021.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2024-03-05): President Joe Biden has often touted that his administration has cut the federal deficit, sometimes communicating that record more accurately than others. [...] The deficit declines were greater during Biden’s second and third years in office, as vaccines and therapies cut the risks associated with COVID-19 and the economy opened. The deficit was about $1.38 trillion in 2022 and $1.7 trillion in 2023. [...] Also, White House officials say that key legislation Biden signed, such as the Inflation Reduction Act, was written in a way to boost federal revenue enough to balance out the spending increases. The Fiscal Responsibility Act, which Biden signed in 2023 as a negotiated way to lift the debt limit, included spending curbs that were designed to reduce deficits from 2024 to 2033 by a collective $1.5 trillion, according to Congressional Budget Office projections.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2022-05-09): "Let me remind you again: I reduced the federal deficit," Biden said in a speech on Wednesday. "All the talk about the deficit from my Republican friends, I love it. I’ve reduced it $350 billion in my first year in office. And we’re on track to reduce it, by the end of September, by another 1 trillion, 500 billion dollars – the largest drop ever." [...] The roughly $2.8 trillion deficit in fiscal 2021, during which Biden was in office for more than eight months, was about $360 billion lower than the roughly $3.1 trillion deficit in fiscal 2020, Trump’s last full fiscal year in office. [...] Joel Friedman, senior vice president for federal fiscal policy at the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities think tank, said in an email that the deficit has fallen under Biden in part because pandemic measures have expired but also "because of strong economic growth" Friedman said is "related" to the pandemic measures.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2022-07-24): If Your Time is short • Federal deficit projections for 2022 range from $1.5 trillion to $1.7 trillion, broadly in line with what Yellen said. [...] Often, administration officials cite today’s historically low unemployment rate. On occasion, they’ve touted progress on reducing the federal deficit. During an appearance on NBC’s "Meet the Press," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said, "We've cut the deficit by a record $1.5 trillion this year." [...] Indeed, the deficit projected for 2022, just over $1 trillion, is a bit larger, but roughly in line with the deficit from 2019, the last prepandemic year, which was just under $1 trillion. So someone could just as easily say that the Biden administration has overseen a return to normalcy in budget deficits rather than set new records for deficit reduction.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-08-23): President Joe Biden claimed he cut the federal debt by $1.7 trillion within his first two years in office during remarks delivered on Aug. 16, the anniversary of the Inflation Act. [...] Biden claimed during a speech on Aug. 16 that he cut the federal deficit by $1.7 trillion before saying he cut the debt by $1.7 trillion. Biden said,"Unlike the last president, in my first two years in office, we actually cut the federal debt, the deficit, by $1.7 trillion. The first two years — we cut the debt by $1.7 trillion." [...] The claim that Biden decreased the deficit is also misleading. While the deficit for fiscal year 2022 is $1.6 trillion, down from $2.77 trillion in 2021 according to Fiscal Data, the cut was mainly due a decrease in spending from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-03-16): Biden said: "And by the way, you know everybody said, well, how was I able to have these new programs and still cut the deficit $1.7 trillion the last two years? Well, it’s pretty – pretty straightforward. There were 550 companies of the Fortune 500 that made $40 billion that didn’t pay a penny in tax – zero, nothing – in taxes. So I said the – you know, outrageous. And we got votes for it. I said they ought to pay a minimum of 15%. Fifteen percent. That’s less than you all pay. And guess what? It allowed me to cut the deficit." [...] Nonetheless, the president explicitly said in a prepared speech, with emphasis, that the minimum tax was the reason he was able to cut the deficit by $1.7 trillion over the previous two years. That’s inaccurate. [...] The primary reason for the deficit falling by $1.7 trillion under Biden was that the deficit had skyrocketed to a record high of about $3.1 trillion in fiscal 2020 during the early stage of the pandemic under then-President Donald Trump. The increase happened largely because of temporary, bipartisan pandemic spending. After much of the temporary spending expired on schedule, the deficit plummeted to about $1.4 trillion in fiscal 2022 under Biden.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-02-09): On Feb. 7, 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden delivered a State of the Union address and claimed, "In the last two years, my administration cut the deficit by more than $1.7 trillion – the largest deficit reduction in American history." [...] Biden's Claim of $1.7 Trillion Decrease [...] Again, Biden claimed his administration "cut the deficit by more than $1.7 trillion." This figure appeared to come from comparing figures for 2020 ($3.13 trillion) and 2022 ($1.38 trillion). The difference between those two numbers is $1.75 trillion.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-02-21): In the last two years, my administration has cut the deficit by more than $1.7 trillion—the largest deficit reduction in American history. [...] However, an updated report from the CBO reveals that the deficit Biden has been bragging about was actually $319 billion higher than what was expected when he had just taken office on Jan. 20, 2021. In fact, deficits through fiscal year 2031 are on pace to total a staggering $6 trillion more than when the Biden administration began, or about $46,000 for every household in the country.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-04-28): "As a matter of fact, my first two years in office I’ve lowered the deficit by a record $1.7 trillion. Lowered the deficit — the debt." [...] Yet he keeps saying it over and over. By our count, at least 30 times since June he’s taken credit for reducing the budget deficit by $1.7 trillion. [...] Biden gets his $1.7 trillion figure by comparing the deficit in fiscal year 2020 ($3.132 trillion) with the deficit in fiscal year 2022 ($1.375 trillion). Federal fiscal years end in September, so some of fiscal 2021 overlaps with Trump’s term. (Biden claims a "record," but that’s in raw dollars; the deficit fell even more after the end of World War II.)
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-10-20): The federal government wound up its fiscal year in September with a deficit just shy of $1.7 trillion, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced Friday. Wrapping up a year in which some thought the shortfall could exceed $2 trillion, the U.S. ended up with an imbalance of $1.695 trillion, up about $320 billion, or 23.2%, from fiscal 2022. [...] The budget shortfall adds to the staggering U.S. debt total, which stood at $33.6 trillion earlier this week. The deficit level was eased somewhat when the Supreme Court voided President Joe Biden's effort to erase billions in student loan debt.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-02-28): Biden says he cut national debt by $1.7T — when he actually increased it by $3.84T President Biden wrongly claimed Tuesday that he slashed the national debt by $1.7 trillion — despite increasing it by about $3.84 trillion over his first two years in office. [...] "You know you hear ads with the big-spending Joe Biden?" Biden said during a speech in Virginia Beach, Va. "In two years, I reduced the debt $1.7 billion — $1.7 billion.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-07-06): During a Thursday speech in West Columbia, South Carolina touting what he says is the success of his administration's economic policies, Biden claimed he had reduced the federal government's budget deficit by $1.7 trillion since taking office in January 2021. "And by the way, parenthetically, I want you to hear about the deficit. I cut the deficit $1.7 trillion in two years. Nobody's ever done that – cut the debt $1.7 [trillion]," Biden told the crowd gathered at manufacturing company Flex LTD. [...] In May, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) revealed that the federal government under Biden had run a near-$1 trillion federal deficit in the "first seven months of fiscal year 2023." It found that in those months alone, the federal government had racked up $928,000,000,000.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-09-20): Did President Biden Reduce the Deficit by $1 Trillion? In his first State of the Union address, President Joe Biden stated that he would be "the only president ever to cut the deficit by more than one trillion dollars in a single year" and that "by the end of this year, the deficit will be down to less than half what it was" before he took office. While the President's math is accurate, his claims of credit for reducing the deficit are misplaced and lack important context. [...] The deficit will fall by more than $1 trillion this year, but it is not because President Biden took efforts to cut it.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-07-20): A staple of President Biden’s speeches on the economy is a dubious claim about the national debt. "In my first two years in office, I have reduced the deficit by $1.7 trillion," Biden said during a recent speech in Chicago. "More than any president has in just two years." [...] Biden can get away with this whopper because the federal deficit in 2020, the year before he took office, was $3.1 trillion. The deficit for 2022, Biden’s second year in office, was $1.4 trillion. The difference is $1.7 trillion, the amount Biden claims to have saved taxpayers. [...] Biden could still concoct a misleading budget claim to use in the heat of the 2024 presidential campaign. Let’s say the 2023 deficit is a flat $2 trillion. That’s still $1.1 trillion less than during the anomalous COVID year of 2020. So he could say he’s lowered annual deficits by $1.1 trillion during his first three years in office. What he won’t say, of course, is that during his first three years, the national debt grew by more than $5 trillion. Better to make a huge increase sound like a decline, and hope voters don’t figure it out.
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2023-06-02): So here's what the deal does. First, it cuts spending. And over the next 10 years, the deficit will be cut by more than $1 trillion. And that will be on top of the record 1.7 trillion—$1.7 trillion—I already cut the deficit in my first 2 years in office. And it's clear: We're all on a much more fiscally responsible course than the one I inherited when I took office 4 years ago. When I came to office, the deficit had increased every year the previous 4 years. And nearly $8 trillion was added to the national debt in the last administration. [...] Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Address to the Nation on the Passage of Public Debt Limit and Federal Budget Legislation Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/361895
Claim: Joe Biden cut the federal deficit by 1.7 trillion (Viral Video, 2023-08-16)
Evidence (2022-04-29): 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. [...] "You know, the budget I submitted — my first budget that passed and became law, it cut the federal deficit by $350 billion," Biden said in a speech on April 19. "We cut the deficit $350 billion. And the budget I proposed this year, if it comes to total fruition, it will cut the deficit by 1 trillion 300 billion dollars. So when my Republican friends start talking about ‘big spenders’ and the reason why there’s inflation, take a look. Take a look. We’ve cut the deficit drastically. … Last year, as I said, we cut the deficit by more than 350 thousa- — billion dollars. This year, we’re on track for $1.3 trillion in cuts. And look, that would be the largest debt reduction in American history."