Fact-checking President Biden's 2023 State of the Union address It was State of the Union week here at The Fact Checker. The president's speech, the seventh longest such address in history, may not have attracted a huge audience – the second lowest in 30 years – but a collection of claims and assertions is catnip for us fact geeks. A State of the Union address generally is a product of many hands and is carefully vetted. But State of the Union speeches often are very political speeches, an argument for the president's policies, so context is sometimes missing. In our article, we dissected 13 claims, including: — Biden's statement that he's created more jobs in two years than any president in a single full term — that the United States is exporting more products and as a result creating more jobs — that billionaires pay a lower tax rate than schoolteachers — that he's reduced the budget deficit — that "some" Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare. We generally don't award Pinocchios when we do speech round-ups. Click the link to read more. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. How did Biden's 2022 proposals fare? Every president announces a slew of initiatives in a State of the Union address. But what actually happens to them over the course of the year? For 12 years, The Fact Checker has kept track, giving an accounting before the next speech. We counted 39 key proposals in Biden's 2022 speech — and he achieved in some form about half of them. With Democrats only narrowly in control of the House and Senate during 2022, Biden's record on legislation is mixed, but he fared better than he did in his first year in office. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down to read other fact checks on President Biden. | 
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