Twitter Community Notes fact-check Biden’s deficit claim.

President Joe Biden’s Claim on Federal Deficit Fact-Checked by Twitter

President Joe Biden recently found himself fact-checked by Twitter once again, this time regarding a claim he made about the federal deficit. In a tweet on Wednesday, Biden boldly stated, “I cut the deficit by 1.7 trillion dollars in two years—that’s more than any president on record.”

“The Washington Post rated this claim ‘highly misleading’ and other fact-checkers have disputed its accuracy,” a subsequent Community Notes correction read. “The $1.7T spending reduction claimed by Biden was the result of pandemic emergency spending that automatically expired, versus action taken by the president.”

FactCheck.org has been disputing Biden’s claim since April of this year, as the president has made similar assertions in past speeches. It seems that the accuracy of his statement is still a subject of debate.

Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has acknowledged that the 2021 deficit fell “mostly because income tax receipts were greater than CBO projected.” According to the CBO, this increase in revenue can be attributed to “strong growth in economic activity, following the substantial disruption in 2020 caused by the pandemic” and “legislation enacted in response to the pandemic.”

This is not the first time Biden has been fact-checked on the platform, and interestingly, he has a habit of leaving the tweet up without offering any correction of his own.

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