Headline Roundup • May 16th, 2024
Was Inflation 9% When Biden Took Office?
Summary from the AllSides News Team
President Joe Biden repeated a false claim about inflation this week.
What Biden Said: Inflation "was at 9% when I came in and it’s now down to about 3%,” Biden said in an interview with Yahoo Finance.
The Facts: Inflation was 1.4% when Biden took office in 2021. It didn't reach 9% until June 2022 and is currently at 3.4%.
For Context: Biden has made the 9% claim twice in the past week and has stated several times throughout his presidency that inflation was already rampant when he took office.
How the Media Covered It: Sources across the spectrum fact-checked Biden's claim. The Associated Press (Lean Left bias) said Biden cited an "erroneous inflation statistic." The New York Post (Lean Right) said Biden continued to "lie" in an attempt "to deflect public disenchantment with the economy."
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CLAIM: Inflation was at 9% when President Joe Biden took the oath of office in January 2021.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Inflation was at 1.4% in 2021 as Biden assumed the presidency, having risen from a low of 0.1% in May 2020, two months into the COVID-19 pandemic. It continued to increase steadily in the first 17 months of Biden’s presidency, reaching a peak of 9.1% in June 2022. Data released today shows that as of last month, it had fallen to 3.4%.
THE FACTS: Biden has twice cited this number, which is drawn from...
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Biden told Yahoo Finance inflation was “at 9% when I came in,” repeating a claim he made in a CNN interview earlier this month (inflation was at 1.4% year-over-year when Biden took office in January 2021, according to the Consumer Price Index).
Trump referred to former President Jimmy Carter as “Jimmy Connors,” chuckling as he...
President Biden again claimed Tuesday that the annual US inflation rate was 9% when he took office in January 2021 — when it actually was 1.4% and didn’t pass 9% until 17 months into his term — as he attempted to deflect public disenchantment with the economy.
The 81-year-old president made the incorrect assertion when asked during a brief interview with Yahoo Finance why families don’t feel very “wealthy” right now.
“I think inflation has gone slightly up. It was at 9% when I came in and it’s now down to about 3%,” Biden...
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