{"id":911339,"date":"2021-10-22T20:13:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T00:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=911339"},"modified":"2021-10-22T20:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T00:13:45","slug":"cnn-fact-checks-bidens-town-hall-but-neglects-claim-that-multi-trillion-dollar-agenda-will-cost-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-fact-checks-bidens-town-hall-but-neglects-claim-that-multi-trillion-dollar-agenda-will-cost-0\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Fact Checks Biden\u2019s Town Hall But Neglects Claim That Multi-Trillion-Dollar Agenda Will Cost $0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-fact-checks-bidens-town-hall-but-neglects-claim-that-multi-trillion-dollar-agenda-will-cost-0%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=911339&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden made some false claims at his town hall with moderator Anderson Cooper on Thursday night, prompting the CNN Newsroom to fact check a few of his statements.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to concerns about the southern border Biden stated, \u201cI\u2019ve been there before. I know it well.\u201d &nbsp;Later, he conceded, \u201cI guess I should go down but the whole point of it is I haven\u2019t had a whole lot of time to get down.\u201d &nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/15\/joe-biden-vacation-taliban-afghanistan-camp-david-kabul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RELATED: \u2018An Unmitigated Disaster Of Epic Proportions\u2019: Biden Blasted For Being On Vacation As The Taliban Takes Over Afghanistan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale pushed back against this claim, stating that he \u201ccould not find any evidence that President Biden had ever visited the border at any point in his political career.\u201d He then offered that White House press secretary Jen Psaki clarified Biden\u2019s statement in a press conference Friday. Psaki claimed Biden was referring to a campaign stop he made in 2008 in El Paso, Texas, when his motorcade reportedly passed by the border for only minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The president also claimed that only 2 million Americans had received COVID shots when he was elected and argued further that it was he, and not Trump, who had procured more shots for distribution. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/30\/meghan-mccain-trump-warp-speed-lockdowns-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018The White House Should Be Honest\u2019: Meghan McCain Says Trump Deserves Credits For Vaccines, Predicts More Lockdowns Ahead)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dale refuted the claim, saying, \u201cIn fact, as a non-partisan government accountability office reported in January, as of late December \u2026 the Trump administration had contracted to obtain 800 million doses \u2026 In other words,\u201d Dale continued, \u201ceven under the Trump Administration, there were enough vaccines to vaccinate all the people who have currently gotten shots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, missing from CNN\u2019s fact check was Biden\u2019s continued claim that his multi-trillion-dollar Build Back Better agenda would cost zero dollars, despite claims to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crfb.org\/blogs\/how-much-could-build-back-better-add-debt-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found that<\/a> Biden\u2019s agenda will require the U.S. to borrow roughly $2.4 trillion. The tax hikes included in the bill would only cover $1.1 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas Republican Rep. Steve Womack <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rep_stevewomack\/status\/1442136063896551434?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a>, \u201cThis is completely false. The largest spending spree in government history will cost zero dollars? &nbsp;That defies logic and basic math. Alongside massive tax increases, it will add trillions to the debt. Peddling false narratives won\u2019t change those facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>American political scientist, Ian Bremmer, though not opposed to the plan, disagreed with the President\u2019s assessment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianbremmer\/status\/1442478837216985092?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeting<\/a>, \u201cI strongly support the new infrastructure plan. &nbsp;It is not costless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden\u2019s statement is true IF the full spending hikes are paid with real tax hikes AND there\u2019s reasonable accounting for the effects of the tax and spending hikes on the overall economy, \u201d Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and columnist at The Washington Post, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/29\/joe-biden-build-back-better-agenda-costs-zero-dollars-economists-less-convinced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the Daily Caller News Foundation in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed hikes, however, only generate $2.9 trillion, with the remaining $600 billion accounted for by the economic growth and revenue increases the package would, in theory, generate. But that, Olsen argued, was based on \u201coptimistic assessments\u201d of the revenue it would generate and its effect on the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Gross domestic product, the sum of everything that goes on in the economy, likely grew in the third quarter at the slowest pace in a year and a half, Wall Street <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/the-u-s-economy-may-have-just-suffered-its-biggest-hiccup-since-the-pandemic-erupted-11634923802\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predicts<\/a>. Third-quarter GDP data will be released next Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden made some false claims at his town hall with moderator Anderson Cooper on Thursday night, prompting the CNN Newsroom to fact check a few of his statements.Responding &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}