Each year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revises its monthly employment figures, which come from a survey of employers, based on more comprehensive data it obtains later from state filings. But former President Donald Trump called this year’s revision a “total lie,” baselessly claiming that “the Harris/Biden administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating job statistics.”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz accepted his party’s vice presidential nomination, and repeated claims he has made before about the Republican ticket. Other speakers tried to link former President Donald Trump to Project 2025, among other claims.
We fact-checked Biden’s speech — which included many claims we’ve heard before — as well as the remarks of other speakers.
As Biden enters the final months of his presidency, we look at various statistical measures of what’s happened during his term.
We fact-checked former President Donald Trump’s speech accepting his party’s nomination.
We fact-checked the first night’s speeches, which mainly focused on economic issues.
In his first televised interview since his admittedly “bad” presidential debate, President Joe Biden made a few exaggerated and misleading statements.
In the first debate clash of the 2024 campaign, the two candidates unleashed a flurry of false and misleading statements.
When President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the U.S. annual rate of inflation was 1.4% — far from the 9% inflation Biden falsely said in a May 8 interview that he inherited. Inflation rose quickly in Biden’s first year, but it didn’t hit 9% until 17 months into his presidency.
Our latest quarterly update on the state of the U.S. during the Biden presidency.