Biden Boasts About Job Growth Despite Data That Proves Him Wrong


President Joe Biden continually mischaracterizes the amount of job growth that has taken place since he took office, claiming that it is a product of his administration’s economic agenda.

Last week’s jobs report showed the economy had added 943,000 new jobs in July, The numbers are misleading, though, as no U.S president has taken office under similar circumstances as Biden according to multiple media fact-checkers.

The White House has not yet acknowledged that states reopening, and ending pandemic-related business restrictions are likely at the center of such growth. Biden gives credit, though to the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan he signed into law in March for driving job growth.

“The Biden plan is working, the Biden plan produces results, and the Biden plan is moving the country forward,” Biden commented on the report.

He added, “We’re now the first administration in history to add jobs every single month in our first six months in office, and the only one in history to add more than 4 million jobs during the first six months,”

Monday the president tweeted that economic growth was at the fastest rate in 40 years because of the “Biden plan.” He likened the rapid growth since January to the relatively slight growth that happened during former President Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump’s first months in office.

The labor market has grown precipitously since the economy lost 20.7 million jobs in April 2020 when the job market dropped sharply due to COVID-19 restrictions. About 12.6 million jobs have been added to the economy between May 2020 and January 2021.

According to Labor Department data, U.S employers have added roughly 4.1 million jobs during Biden’s first six months in office but had added 3.2 million in jobs during the six months prior. The job market remains about 5.7 million jobs shy of its pre-pandemic level of the 152.5 million recorded to be employed in February 2020.

“The jobs record in the first months of any administration is mostly a matter of circumstances, good or bad, that awaited the president when he took the oath of office,” commented a Washington Post fact-checker.

Previous Leaders At The Pentagon Repeatedly Praised The Afghan Army That Collapsed In Days
Next Cuomo Breaks His Silence Since Resignation, Admits He Did The Right Thing