Fact checkers call out Biden’s State of the Union claims about the deficit as ‘misleading,’ ‘lacking context’

Claims that President Biden cut the deficit by a record $1.7 trillion in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address were misleading and lacked context, according to multiple fact-checkers. “Over the past two years, my administration has cut the deficit by more than $1.7 trillion, the largest deficit reduction in American history,” Biden said at […]