We fact-checked claims President Joe Biden made in his 2023 State of the Union address around the economy, the infrastructure law, and Republican plans for Medicaid and Social Security. Here's what we found:
by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy concluded that at least 55 large companies paid zero federal income taxes in 2020. Critics say that the financial disclosures used to compile the report are imperfect estimates of what the companies actually paid in taxes, since the accounting rules are different for the two types of filings.
"In the 10 years the ban was law, mass shootings went down. After we let it expire under a Republican administration, mass shootings tripled.". Studies that looked at mass shooting deaths found that deaths fell during the 10 years the ban was in place, from 1994 to 2004, and rose dramatically when the ban expired.Compared to the decade before the ban, there was a
However, experts say it is difficult to determine whether the ban drove the decline in mass shooting deaths. The infrastructure bill has allowed long-delayed projects to move forward, but comparing total spending over the years presents a challenge. Take the last big infrastructure push in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which providedfor roads and bridges. That’s a quarter of what’s in the 2021 infrastructure bill. By that measure, Biden is correct.
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