Biden makes misleading claims when slamming House GOP debt ceiling proposal

Speaking to union workers in Maryland on Wednesday, President Joe Biden took aim at House Republicans’ request that he negotiate spending cuts in exchange for a debt limit hike as he sought to defend his work on the economy.

Biden relied on several misleading claims during an address aimed largely at discrediting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and the GOP plan McCarthy unveiled earlier in the afternoon.

Here are some of the instances in which Biden stretched the truth.

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