Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-06-03 04:57:34 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 34F0092E9E46CBD2B8C4400FCEA4084166A5398209D1DDF9A668B44292E7CD7F
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Original Note:
The $1.7T reduction was caused by previously planned expiration of COVID spending. Biden's actions raised, rather than lowered, the deficit (earning a Washington Post Bottomless Pinocchio rating). https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/politics/fact-check-president-biden-state-of-the-union/index.html, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/28/bidens-misleading-deficit-claim-earns-him-bottomless-pinocchio/ Biden's budgets have larger future deficits than Trump's. Table S1 in https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BUDGET-2021-BUD/pdf/BUDGET-2021-BUD.pdf & https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BUDGET-2024-BUD/pdf/BUDGET-2024-BUD.pdf
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