Fact-checking Biden's State of the Union address A State of the Union address generally is a product of many hands and is carefully vetted. But State of the Union addresses are political speeches, an argument for the president's policies, so context is sometimes missing. We looked at a dozen claims in Biden's feisty speech last night that caught our attention, including: - "15 million new jobs in just three years — a record, a record!" (Biden is comparing himself to full presidential terms — and job growth could falter.)
- "Inflation has dropped from 9 percent to 3 percent — the lowest in the world." (Other countries have lower inflation.)
- "Obamacare, known as the Affordable Care Act, is still a very big deal. Over 100 million of you can no longer be denied health insurance because of preexisting conditions." (This number is in dispute.)
- "I've already cut the federal deficit by over 1 trillion dollars." (This is false.)
Click the link to read the full report. Also: We looked back at Biden's 2023 State of the Union address to see how his various proposals fared. With the Republican-controlled House blocking him on many fronts, his success record was poor. 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. The truth about noncitizen voting in federal elections Decrying the surge of undocumented immigrants at the southern border, former president Donald Trump has without evidence suggested a nefarious reason for it — a desire by President Biden to tip the 2024 vote by enlisting migrants to cast ballots. Trump's musings are reflected on social media, with the phrase "they are importing voters" spread across X, formerly known as Twitter, by many users (including the site's owner, Elon Musk). Trump's fearmongering about votes allegedly cast by noncitizens is not new. But fresh research by a professor often cited by Trump's supporters further undercuts his claims. In 2014, Jesse Richman of Old Dominion University co-wrote a study that estimated that 6.4 percent of noncitizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent voted in 2010. But Richman has now dug into Arizona's voter and driver's license records and, in documents filed under seal in federal court and obtained by The Fact Checker, dramatically recast his findings. He still believes that data suggest that some noncitizens — about one-half of one percent — cast votes that are not easily detected by authorities but says the numbers did not change the 2020 result in the state, which Biden narrowly won. Our detailed report separates fiction from fact on the issue of noncitizen voting. Please click the link to learn more. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. We're also on TikTok. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. About the cats: It's a Friday and sometimes our fact checks deal with heavy or depressing subjects. So we hope to bring a smile to your face. Scroll down to read other Trump and Biden fact checks | 
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