President Biden repeated his false claim that inflation was at 9% when he first took office less than a week after being called out for making the same assertion. "Inflation has gone slightly up," Biden told Yahoo! Inflation was at 1.4% when Biden took the oath of office in January 2021 and peaked at 9.1% in June 2022. It was 9% when I came into office, 9%," Biden told Burnett. According to FactCheck.org, a White House official said Biden was trying to convey contributing factors to inflation like the supply chain crisis that began before Biden took office.

Source: Fox News May 15, 2024 21:29 UTC