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2023-06-22 09:31:31 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 8B33BFC6F0BBE1D44111422C48C97E697B8C4E9D0E6CCA5CFC22F98D1625E975
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The Washington Post rated this claim "highly misleading" and other fact-checkers have disputed its accuracy. The $1.7T spending reduction claimed by Biden was the result of pandemic emergency spending that automatically expired, versus action taken by the president. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/28/bidens-misleading-deficit-claim-earns-him-bottomless-pinocchio/ https://www.factcheck.org/2022/04/bidens-deficit-spin/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/28/janet-yellen/white-houses-big-deficit-cut-and-why-it-merits-ast/
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