AP Fact Check reveals Biden made exaggerated claims about jobs and gasoline

A new fact check by the Associated Press said President BidenJoe BidenSunday Shows Sneak Peek: Coronavirus Dominates As Country Battles Delta Variant Has President Biden instituted a vaccine mandate for only half of the country’s teachers? Democrats look at vaccine mandates ahead of midterm MORE makes inaccurate remarks with his recent comments on job growth and gasoline prices.

Biden praised Thursday for creating “an average of 750,000 new jobs per month” in the past three months.

“When I took the oath of office as president, the country was struggling to come out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression,” he said. “Job growth was anemic, with just over 60,000 new jobs per month over the three months prior to being sworn in. Then we went to work. We adopted the US bailout in March. And that was it. worked; it still works. “

However, the AP noted that the job gains largely reflected the reopening of the economy after months of pandemic shutdowns. The widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States has also helped companies rehire.

Biden’s $ 1.9 million US bailout, enacted in March, helped growth with a third round of stimulus checks and an extension of the unemployment benefit extension until the first week of September. However, job growth has started to slow as the highly contagious delta variant spreads across the country.

The AP also said Biden misleadingly stated that “there is a lot of evidence” that “gas prices should come down, but they are not.”

While gas prices typically fall after Labor Day, analysts said there does not appear to be any wrongdoing in the market leading to higher prices.

“I don’t see profiteers or bad actors,” Phil Flynn, energy analyst at Price Futures Group, told the AP.

The high prices are in part the result of recent hurricanes, which shut down most oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, several large refineries and a major pipeline to the east coast, the outlet reported.

The average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States is $ 3.19, according to AAA. This number is unchanged from last month, but up by one dollar from last year.