Remarks to the American Medical AssociationArchived White House transcript ↗“If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period.”
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Barack Obama · January 20–April 29, 2009
The first 100 days.
Assessed day by day.
A completed calendar-day record of Barack Obama's opening presidency, connecting each date to the located Obama-participation transcripts and evidence-backed claim assessments. Every Obama-spoken paragraph in all 187 indexed records has been reviewed. These scores are published separately from Donald Trump's claims, tallies and PRIQ.
Across the full term
Memorable public quotes
Editorially selected for their public resonance and preserved with exact wording, date and context. Inclusion here is historical context, not a claim verdict.
White House press conferenceArchived White House transcript ↗“We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks.”
Address to the Turkish ParliamentArchived White House transcript ↗“The United States is not, and will never be, at war with Islam.”
Day 1 begins at noon on January 20, 2009; Day 100 is April 29, 2009. Only specific claims attributable to President Barack H. Obama receive verdicts. Staff remarks, written-only records, questions from reporters, predictions, policy preferences and nonfactual rhetoric are not counted as assessed claims.
187 complete, 0 in progress and 0 pending out of 187 indexed Obama spoken records. Complete means every Obama-spoken paragraph was checked for specific attributable factual claims; a completed transcript may responsibly yield zero assessed claims.
How this day-by-day record works
Every date is visible.
The completed American Presidency Project inventory contains 187 distinct Obama spoken records from inauguration through Day 100. Each calendar day appears below, including dates with no located Obama-participation spoken record.
Claims stay separate.
Supported findings remain beside False, Misleading and Unresolved ones. A blank claim count after completed review means no specific attributable factual claim was responsibly selected for assessment—not that no public activity or factual statement occurred. No Obama assessment is included in the Donald Trump YTD, Overall Claims, yearly tallies or PRIQ graph.
2009-01
January 20–31, 2009
The opening ethics, records, disclosure and economic-stimulus remarks have completed paragraph-by-paragraph claim review.
12calendar days16spoken records
Transcript status: 16 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending.
Supported14False0Misleading3Unresolved6
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
9 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The administration was instituting a pay freeze for senior White House staff.
A presidential memorandum issued that day froze pay at its current level for White House staff earning more than $100,000.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Supported
Former lobbyists entering the administration could not work for two years on matters they had lobbied on.
Executive Order 13490 imposed a two-year recusal from particular matters on which an appointee had lobbied.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Executive Order 13490
Supported
Former lobbyists entering the administration could not work for two years in an agency they had lobbied.
The ethics pledge imposed the stated two-year agency restriction on appointees who had been registered lobbyists.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Executive Order 13490
Supported
Appointees leaving government could not lobby the Obama administration while he remained president.
The ethics pledge barred covered appointees from lobbying specified executive-branch officials for the remainder of the administration.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Executive Order 13490
Supported
Lobbyists were banned from giving gifts to administration personnel.
Executive Order 13490 required appointees to pledge that they would not accept gifts from registered lobbyists or lobbying organizations, subject to defined exceptions.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Executive Order 13490
Supported
All appointees had to accept a two-year restriction on matters involving former employers or clients.
The ethics pledge required a two-year recusal from particular matters directly and substantially related to a former employer or client.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Executive Order 13490
Supported
The new FOIA directive established a presumption in favor of disclosure.
The January 21 memorandum directed all agencies to apply a presumption of disclosure to FOIA decisions.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Archived White House FOIA memorandum
Supported
The Presidential Records order required consultation with the Attorney General and White House Counsel before asserting executive privilege over records.
Executive Order 13489 established consultation procedures involving the Attorney General and White House Counsel before a privilege claim was made.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Executive Order 13489
Unresolved
The new lobbyist limits were stricter than those of any previous administration.
The order clearly tightened several restrictions, but the sweeping historical superlative depends on which lobbying rules and exceptions are compared and is not established by the order alone.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Executive Order 13490
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No Obama-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Obama-participation transcript inventory.
3 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The economy could fall about $1 trillion short of full capacity in 2009.
The Congressional Budget Office projected an output gap of about 6.8% in a roughly $14.2 trillion economy, which was close to $1 trillion.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
- Context
- President's weekly address ↗
Evidence: PolitiFact review of the CBO projection
Misleading
A $1 trillion output gap translated into more than $12,000 in lost income for a family of four.
Dividing the aggregate output gap across the population produced that average, but it did not describe how losses would actually be distributed among families.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
- Context
- President's weekly address ↗
Evidence: PolitiFact family-income analysis
Unresolved
The proposed recovery plan would save or create three million to four million jobs.
Several models produced estimates in that range, but their authors stressed substantial uncertainty and later estimates changed with the final legislation.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
- Context
- President's weekly address ↗
Evidence: FactCheck.org stimulus-model review
No Obama-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Obama-participation transcript inventory.
2 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The recession had eliminated roughly five million payroll jobs.
By March 2009, BLS data showed job losses approaching or exceeding five million depending on the endpoint and revision vintage.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would weatherize roughly two million homes.
This was a program target dependent on appropriations, state implementation and household participation, not a completed result during the first 100 days.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
- Context
- Remarks on Energy ↗
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
1 attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
Women earned about 78 cents for every dollar earned by men.
The Census annual-earnings ratio supported a figure near 78 cents for full-time year-round workers, but the broad wording did not control for occupation, hours, experience or other differences.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Census Bureau earnings tables
5 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The economy lost about 2.6 million jobs in 2008, the largest annual decline since 1945.
Contemporaneous BLS estimates showed a roughly 2.6 million payroll decline in 2008; later revisions made the loss larger, so the statement was conservative.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009
Misleading
The recession had already cost six million jobs.
Contemporaneous BLS releases put the loss below six million during the first 100 days. Later revisions and broader timing could approach that figure, but it overstated the published count when said.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Supported
Real GDP shrank at an annual rate of nearly 4% in the fourth quarter of 2008.
BEA's initial estimate available when Obama spoke was a 3.8% annualized contraction; it was later revised substantially lower.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BEA national income and product accounts
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would renovate or modernize 10,000 schools.
This was an implementation target dependent on state and local project selection and how a renovated school was counted.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
3 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
Real GDP shrank at an annual rate of nearly 4% in the fourth quarter of 2008.
BEA's initial estimate available when Obama spoke was a 3.8% annualized contraction; it was later revised substantially lower.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BEA national income and product accounts
Supported
The late-2008 quarterly economic contraction was the worst in more than 25 years.
The initial BEA estimate already made it the steepest quarterly decline since 1982; later revisions strengthened the comparison.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BEA national income and product accounts
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
2009-02
February, 2009
The Recovery Act and first joint-session address have completed review across economic, health and historical claims.
28calendar days46spoken records
Transcript status: 46 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending.
Supported39False6Misleading19Unresolved36
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
1 attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
1 attributable claim assessed
6 indexed spoken records · 6 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would weatherize roughly two million homes.
This was a program target dependent on appropriations, state implementation and household participation, not a completed result during the first 100 days.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
3 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
A new law provided health insurance for 11 million children whose parents worked full time.
The 11 million CHIP estimate was sound, but eligibility was income-based and did not require a parent to work full time.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Supported
The economy lost about 2.6 million jobs in 2008, the largest annual decline since 1945.
Contemporaneous BLS estimates showed a roughly 2.6 million payroll decline in 2008; later revisions made the loss larger, so the statement was conservative.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
9 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The economy lost about 2.6 million jobs in 2008, the largest annual decline since 1945.
Contemporaneous BLS estimates showed a roughly 2.6 million payroll decline in 2008; later revisions made the loss larger, so the statement was conservative.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009
Misleading
The recession had already cost six million jobs.
Contemporaneous BLS releases put the loss below six million during the first 100 days. Later revisions and broader timing could approach that figure, but it overstated the published count when said.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would renovate or modernize 10,000 schools.
This was an implementation target dependent on state and local project selection and how a renovated school was counted.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
Supported
The economy lost about 2.6 million jobs in 2008, the largest annual decline since 1945.
Contemporaneous BLS estimates showed a roughly 2.6 million payroll decline in 2008; later revisions made the loss larger, so the statement was conservative.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009
Misleading
The recession had already cost six million jobs.
Contemporaneous BLS releases put the loss below six million during the first 100 days. Later revisions and broader timing could approach that figure, but it overstated the published count when said.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would renovate or modernize 10,000 schools.
This was an implementation target dependent on state and local project selection and how a renovated school was counted.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
Misleading
The national debt had doubled over the preceding eight years.
Gross Federal debt rose sharply and nearly doubled, but debt held by the public grew by a smaller share. The statement omitted which debt measure it used.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget
3 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The economy had lost about 3.6 million jobs since the recession began.
The January 2009 BLS release reported 3.6 million payroll jobs lost since December 2007.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009
Misleading
The recession had already cost six million jobs.
Contemporaneous BLS releases put the loss below six million during the first 100 days. Later revisions and broader timing could approach that figure, but it overstated the published count when said.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Supported
The economy was losing roughly 600,000 jobs per month.
BLS initially reported losses of 598,000 in January and 651,000 in February, supporting the rounded description.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS statement on the February 2009 employment situation
5 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The economy had lost about 3.6 million jobs since the recession began.
The January 2009 BLS release reported 3.6 million payroll jobs lost since December 2007.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009
Misleading
The recession had already cost six million jobs.
Contemporaneous BLS releases put the loss below six million during the first 100 days. Later revisions and broader timing could approach that figure, but it overstated the published count when said.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Supported
The economy was losing roughly 600,000 jobs per month.
BLS initially reported losses of 598,000 in January and 651,000 in February, supporting the rounded description.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS statement on the February 2009 employment situation
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would renovate or modernize 10,000 schools.
This was an implementation target dependent on state and local project selection and how a renovated school was counted.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
No Obama-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Obama-participation transcript inventory.
13 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The economy had lost about 3.6 million jobs since the recession began.
The January 2009 BLS release reported 3.6 million payroll jobs lost since December 2007.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009
Misleading
The recession had already cost six million jobs.
Contemporaneous BLS releases put the loss below six million during the first 100 days. Later revisions and broader timing could approach that figure, but it overstated the published count when said.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Supported
The economy was losing roughly 600,000 jobs per month.
BLS initially reported losses of 598,000 in January and 651,000 in February, supporting the rounded description.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS statement on the February 2009 employment situation
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Unresolved
More than 90% of Recovery Act jobs would be in the private sector.
The share was derived from macroeconomic modeling and depended on how indirect and induced employment was allocated; it was not an observed count.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · FactCheck.org review of the joint-session address
Supported
The economy had lost about 3.6 million jobs since the recession began.
The January 2009 BLS release reported 3.6 million payroll jobs lost since December 2007.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009
Misleading
The recession had already cost six million jobs.
Contemporaneous BLS releases put the loss below six million during the first 100 days. Later revisions and broader timing could approach that figure, but it overstated the published count when said.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Supported
The economy was losing roughly 600,000 jobs per month.
BLS initially reported losses of 598,000 in January and 651,000 in February, supporting the rounded description.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS statement on the February 2009 employment situation
Misleading
Banks broadly leveraged about $30 for every $1 of assets or mortgage exposure.
Leverage near 30-to-1 described some major investment banks and particular balance-sheet measures, not every bank or every subprime position. The systemwide wording was too broad.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Unresolved
More than 90% of Recovery Act jobs would be in the private sector.
The share was derived from macroeconomic modeling and depended on how indirect and induced employment was allocated; it was not an observed count.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · FactCheck.org review of the joint-session address
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would weatherize roughly two million homes.
This was a program target dependent on appropriations, state implementation and household participation, not a completed result during the first 100 days.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
Supported
The first $350 billion of TARP authority had been committed or spent.
Treasury had received and substantially committed the first $350 billion tranche, although not every dollar had reached final recipients when the statement was made.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: GAO TARP oversight report
5 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The economy had lost about 3.6 million jobs since the recession began.
The January 2009 BLS release reported 3.6 million payroll jobs lost since December 2007.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009
Misleading
The recession had already cost six million jobs.
Contemporaneous BLS releases put the loss below six million during the first 100 days. Later revisions and broader timing could approach that figure, but it overstated the published count when said.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Supported
The economy was losing roughly 600,000 jobs per month.
BLS initially reported losses of 598,000 in January and 651,000 in February, supporting the rounded description.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS statement on the February 2009 employment situation
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Unresolved
More than 90% of Recovery Act jobs would be in the private sector.
The share was derived from macroeconomic modeling and depended on how indirect and induced employment was allocated; it was not an observed count.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · FactCheck.org review of the joint-session address
7 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The economy had lost about 3.6 million jobs since the recession began.
The January 2009 BLS release reported 3.6 million payroll jobs lost since December 2007.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009
Misleading
The recession had already cost six million jobs.
Contemporaneous BLS releases put the loss below six million during the first 100 days. Later revisions and broader timing could approach that figure, but it overstated the published count when said.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Supported
The economy was losing roughly 600,000 jobs per month.
BLS initially reported losses of 598,000 in January and 651,000 in February, supporting the rounded description.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS statement on the February 2009 employment situation
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Supported
The Recovery Act directed more than $100 billion toward infrastructure-related investment.
The enacted law's transportation, water, broadband, public-building and related capital provisions exceeded $100 billion under a broad infrastructure definition.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
Unresolved
Recovery Act infrastructure investment would create or preserve about 400,000 jobs.
The number was a model allocation from the broader save-or-create estimate and could not be directly observed against a no-act baseline.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects
Supported
The Recovery Act was the largest new Federal infrastructure investment since construction of the Interstate Highway System.
Under the administration's broad infrastructure category, the Recovery Act exceeded intervening one-time Federal packages; the comparison did not mean ordinary annual infrastructure spending had ceased.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement · ASCE 2009 infrastructure report card
4 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The economy had lost about 3.6 million jobs since the recession began.
The January 2009 BLS release reported 3.6 million payroll jobs lost since December 2007.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009
Misleading
The recession had already cost six million jobs.
Contemporaneous BLS releases put the loss below six million during the first 100 days. Later revisions and broader timing could approach that figure, but it overstated the published count when said.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Supported
The economy was losing roughly 600,000 jobs per month.
BLS initially reported losses of 598,000 in January and 651,000 in February, supporting the rounded description.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS statement on the February 2009 employment situation
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
6 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
Banks broadly leveraged about $30 for every $1 of assets or mortgage exposure.
Leverage near 30-to-1 described some major investment banks and particular balance-sheet measures, not every bank or every subprime position. The systemwide wording was too broad.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Supported
The economy had lost about 3.6 million jobs since the recession began.
The January 2009 BLS release reported 3.6 million payroll jobs lost since December 2007.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009
Misleading
The recession had already cost six million jobs.
Contemporaneous BLS releases put the loss below six million during the first 100 days. Later revisions and broader timing could approach that figure, but it overstated the published count when said.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Supported
The economy was losing roughly 600,000 jobs per month.
BLS initially reported losses of 598,000 in January and 651,000 in February, supporting the rounded description.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS statement on the February 2009 employment situation
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Unresolved
More than 90% of Recovery Act jobs would be in the private sector.
The share was derived from macroeconomic modeling and depended on how indirect and induced employment was allocated; it was not an observed count.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · FactCheck.org review of the joint-session address
1 attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
No Obama-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Obama-participation transcript inventory.
No Obama-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Obama-participation transcript inventory.
5 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax cut to about 95% of working families or households.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, though not 95% of all households.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would double renewable-energy capacity or supply within three years.
This was a forward projection whose result depended on the baseline, technology definition and project completion.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement · EIA Annual Energy Review 2009
Supported
The Recovery Act was the largest new Federal infrastructure investment since construction of the Interstate Highway System.
Under the administration's broad infrastructure category, the Recovery Act exceeded intervening one-time Federal packages; the comparison did not mean ordinary annual infrastructure spending had ceased.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement · ASCE 2009 infrastructure report card
Unresolved
Recovery Act college aid would make higher education more affordable for about seven million students.
The count was an eligibility and participation estimate combining tax and grant provisions, not a direct count of students whose affordability outcome could be observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
Unresolved
Recovery Act tax provisions would lift more than two million Americans out of poverty.
The figure came from microsimulation of household incomes and depended on the poverty measure, take-up and counterfactual earnings.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
6 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The recession had eliminated roughly five million payroll jobs.
By March 2009, BLS data showed job losses approaching or exceeding five million depending on the endpoint and revision vintage.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Unresolved
The housing plan would help seven million to nine million families refinance or restructure mortgages.
That was the administration's prospective program-reach estimate and depended on take-up, eligibility, servicer participation and market conditions.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Unresolved
The housing plan could help three million to four million homeowners modify mortgages.
This was a forward participation estimate for the modification component, not a completed count.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Supported
Subprime loans were about 12% of mortgages but accounted for roughly half of foreclosures.
Contemporaneous mortgage-market data broadly supported those rounded shares, though definitions and reporting periods varied.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Supported
Home prices in major U.S. cities had fallen by more than 25% since 2006.
The Case-Shiller national and 20-city indexes showed declines of that order from their 2006 peaks by early 2009.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Federal Reserve economic data for the national home-price index
Unresolved
The housing plan could save up to four million homeowners from foreclosure.
This was the prospective reach of the modification program, not a direct count of foreclosures prevented.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
4 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax cut to about 95% of working families or households.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, though not 95% of all households.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would double renewable-energy capacity or supply within three years.
This was a forward projection whose result depended on the baseline, technology definition and project completion.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement · EIA Annual Energy Review 2009
Supported
The Recovery Act was the largest new Federal infrastructure investment since construction of the Interstate Highway System.
Under the administration's broad infrastructure category, the Recovery Act exceeded intervening one-time Federal packages; the comparison did not mean ordinary annual infrastructure spending had ceased.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement · ASCE 2009 infrastructure report card
1 attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax cut to about 95% of working families or households.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, though not 95% of all households.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
No Obama-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Obama-participation transcript inventory.
6 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Supported
The Federal Government paid about $250 billion in net interest in 2008.
Federal budget tables report fiscal-year 2008 net interest outlays close to $253 billion.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Fiscal year 2010 budget overview
Misleading
The administration inherited a $1.3 trillion annual deficit.
Obama inherited an exceptionally large deficit, but CBO's final pre-inauguration estimate was about $1.2 trillion; $1.3 trillion came from the incoming administration's later estimate.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
Misleading
The proposed budget would cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama's first term.
The comparison used an unusually high crisis-year starting point and administration projections. CBO forecast a roughly 48% decline by 2013 but much larger cumulative deficits than the administration.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax cut to about 95% of working families or households.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, though not 95% of all households.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
13 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
False
The United States imported more oil than ever before.
Petroleum imports had peaked in 2005 and were substantially lower by February 2009.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org oil-import review
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create 3.5 million jobs over two years.
Independent models overlapped the administration's estimate but produced a wide range; the counterfactual number could not be observed directly.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org stimulus-model review
Unresolved
More than 90% of the Recovery Act jobs would be in the private sector.
This was a derivative model projection rather than an observed fact, and its accuracy depended on the same uncertain employment assumptions.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org joint-session review
Misleading
The Recovery Act prevented the layoffs of 57 Minneapolis police officers.
Stimulus funds contributed, but the figure was hypothetical and Minneapolis officials identified several other budget measures that also avoided the positions' elimination.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax credit to 95% of working households.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, although it covered a smaller share of all households and included refundable credits.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org tax-credit analysis
False
Families would receive a $2,500 tax credit for all four years of college.
The Recovery Act's expanded credit was authorized for 2009 and 2010, not automatically for all four years of a student's college education.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org joint-session review
False
The housing plan would not help borrowers who bought homes they could never afford.
Program officials acknowledged that the plan could not reliably separate prudent borrowers from people who had taken unaffordable loans.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org mortgage-plan analysis
False
Health-care costs caused a bankruptcy in America every 30 seconds.
That frequency described all personal bankruptcies; even a high estimate attributing half to medical costs implied roughly one medical bankruptcy per minute.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org bankruptcy analysis
False
The United States invented the automobile.
The first steam, electric and gasoline automobiles were developed in Europe; the United States pioneered mass production rather than the automobile itself.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org automobile-history review
False
The transcontinental railroad was laid from coast to coast during the Civil War.
The project was authorized and begun during the war, but the lines did not meet until 1869, four years after the war ended.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org railroad-history review
Supported
Theodore Roosevelt had called for health-insurance reform.
Roosevelt's 1912 Progressive Party platform included a system of social insurance, predating later calls by sitting presidents.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org Roosevelt review
Supported
A Cold War weapons system then being funded had never been used in combat.
The statement referred to the F-22, which had been operational since 2005 but had not yet been used in combat.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org F-22 review
Misleading
A new law provided health insurance for 11 million children whose parents worked full time.
The 11 million figure matched the CHIP estimate, but eligibility was based on income and did not require a parent to work full time.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org CHIP analysis
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
3 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax cut to about 95% of working families or households.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, though not 95% of all households.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Misleading
The proposed budget would cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama's first term.
The comparison used an unusually high crisis-year starting point and administration projections. CBO forecast a roughly 48% decline by 2013 but much larger cumulative deficits than the administration.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
Supported
The budget proposed $15 billion per year for ten years for clean-energy technology.
The fiscal-year 2010 budget described a $150 billion ten-year clean-energy investment financed in part through proposed climate policy.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Fiscal year 2010 budget overview
4 attributable claims assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
About 140,000 U.S. troops were serving in Iraq.
Defense Department troop levels around inauguration were approximately 140,000.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Supported
The administration ordered about 17,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
The February 2009 deployment order authorized approximately 17,000 additional personnel.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Archived White House Afghanistan troop announcement
Unresolved
U.S. combat brigades would leave Iraq by August 2010.
This was a future implementation pledge when stated. The announced drawdown was later substantially carried out, but the first-100-days utterance itself was prospective.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Unresolved
U.S. combat brigades would leave Iraq by August 2010.
This was a future implementation pledge when stated. The announced drawdown was later substantially carried out, but the first-100-days utterance itself was prospective.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
2009-03
March, 2009
Education and budget speeches have completed review across dropout, forecast, spending and deficit claims.
31calendar days62spoken records
Transcript status: 62 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending.
Supported30False5Misleading20Unresolved13
No Obama-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Obama-participation transcript inventory.
4 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The recession had eliminated roughly five million payroll jobs.
By March 2009, BLS data showed job losses approaching or exceeding five million depending on the endpoint and revision vintage.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Supported
Health-insurance premiums had grown about four times faster than wages over eight years.
Employer premium surveys showed cumulative family-premium growth far outpacing earnings over the cited period; the precise ratio varies by endpoints but was near four-to-one.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
False
Health-care costs caused a bankruptcy every 30 seconds.
That frequency described all personal bankruptcies; even a high estimate attributing half to medical causes implied roughly one per minute.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Misleading
A new law provided health insurance for 11 million children whose parents worked full time.
The 11 million CHIP estimate was sound, but eligibility was income-based and did not require a parent to work full time.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
6 attributable claims assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The late-2008 quarterly economic contraction was the worst in more than 25 years.
The initial BEA estimate already made it the steepest quarterly decline since 1982; later revisions strengthened the comparison.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BEA national income and product accounts
Unresolved
Recovery Act infrastructure investment would create or preserve about 400,000 jobs.
The number was a model allocation from the broader save-or-create estimate and could not be directly observed against a no-act baseline.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects
Supported
The Recovery Act was the largest new Federal infrastructure investment since construction of the Interstate Highway System.
Under the administration's broad infrastructure category, the Recovery Act exceeded intervening one-time Federal packages; the comparison did not mean ordinary annual infrastructure spending had ceased.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement · ASCE 2009 infrastructure report card
Supported
Civil engineers had graded U.S. roads or infrastructure at about D-minus.
ASCE's 2009 report card assigned the nation's infrastructure an overall D and roads a D-minus.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: ASCE 2009 infrastructure report card
Supported
Traffic congestion was costing the country roughly $80 billion annually.
The Texas Transportation Institute estimated urban congestion costs near that level using time and fuel-loss models.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Texas Transportation Institute 2009 Urban Mobility Report
Misleading
Bad roads and driving conditions caused about 14,000 deaths each year.
Roughly 14,000 fatalities occurred in roadway-departure crashes, but attributing all of them to deficient roads rather than driver behavior, speed, impairment, weather and vehicle factors overstated the infrastructure evidence.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: ASCE 2009 infrastructure report card
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
5 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The recession had eliminated roughly five million payroll jobs.
By March 2009, BLS data showed job losses approaching or exceeding five million depending on the endpoint and revision vintage.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Supported
About 46 million Americans lacked health insurance.
The Census Bureau estimated 46.3 million people were uninsured in 2008.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Supported
Health-insurance premiums had grown about four times faster than wages over eight years.
Employer premium surveys showed cumulative family-premium growth far outpacing earnings over the cited period; the precise ratio varies by endpoints but was near four-to-one.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
False
Health-care costs caused a bankruptcy every 30 seconds.
That frequency described all personal bankruptcies; even a high estimate attributing half to medical causes implied roughly one per minute.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Misleading
A new law provided health insurance for 11 million children whose parents worked full time.
The 11 million CHIP estimate was sound, but eligibility was income-based and did not require a parent to work full time.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
2 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The economy had lost about 4.4 million jobs since the recession began.
The February 2009 BLS release reported 4.4 million payroll jobs lost since December 2007.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS statement on the February 2009 employment situation
Supported
The economy was losing roughly 600,000 jobs per month.
BLS initially reported losses of 598,000 in January and 651,000 in February, supporting the rounded description.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS statement on the February 2009 employment situation
5 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The economy had lost about 4.4 million jobs since the recession began.
The February 2009 BLS release reported 4.4 million payroll jobs lost since December 2007.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS statement on the February 2009 employment situation
Supported
The recession had eliminated roughly five million payroll jobs.
By March 2009, BLS data showed job losses approaching or exceeding five million depending on the endpoint and revision vintage.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Supported
The economy was losing roughly 600,000 jobs per month.
BLS initially reported losses of 598,000 in January and 651,000 in February, supporting the rounded description.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, January 2009 · BLS statement on the February 2009 employment situation
Misleading
The administration inherited a $1.3 trillion annual deficit.
Obama inherited an exceptionally large deficit, but CBO's final pre-inauguration estimate was about $1.2 trillion; $1.3 trillion came from the incoming administration's later estimate.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
Unresolved
The administration had identified about $2 trillion in budget savings over ten years.
The figure represented proposed policy changes and baseline assumptions, including reductions relative to projected spending. Whether they became realized savings depended on legislation and future budgets.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Fiscal year 2010 budget overview · CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget
No Obama-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Obama-participation transcript inventory.
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
1 attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
False
The high-school dropout rate had tripled in the previous 30 years.
Department of Education data showed the status dropout rate had declined by roughly one-third over that period.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org 100-day review
3 attributable claims assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
The administration inherited a $1.3 trillion annual deficit.
Obama inherited an exceptionally large deficit, but CBO's final pre-inauguration estimate was about $1.2 trillion; $1.3 trillion came from the incoming administration's later estimate.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
Misleading
The proposed budget would cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama's first term.
The comparison used an unusually high crisis-year starting point and administration projections. CBO forecast a roughly 48% decline by 2013 but much larger cumulative deficits than the administration.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
Misleading
Women earned about 78 cents for every dollar earned by men.
The Census annual-earnings ratio supported a figure near 78 cents for full-time year-round workers, but the broad wording did not control for occupation, hours, experience or other differences.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Census Bureau earnings tables
3 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax cut to about 95% of working families or households.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, though not 95% of all households.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Unresolved
Recovery policies would leverage at least $175 billion in private investment.
This was a forward leverage estimate dependent on private participation and how induced investment was attributed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects
Misleading
The proposed budget would cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama's first term.
The comparison used an unusually high crisis-year starting point and administration projections. CBO forecast a roughly 48% decline by 2013 but much larger cumulative deficits than the administration.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No Obama-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Obama-participation transcript inventory.
2 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
The budget would expand VA health-care eligibility or service to 500,000 additional veterans by 2013.
This was a multi-year enrollment target contingent on appropriations and implementation.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Department of Veterans Affairs fiscal year 2010 budget submission
Misleading
Small businesses created about 70% of new jobs.
Small firms generated a large share of net new jobs, but the percentage varied substantially by time period, firm-size definition and gross-versus-net measure. The unqualified figure was not stable.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
3 attributable claims assessed
6 indexed spoken records · 6 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax cut to about 95% of working families or households.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, though not 95% of all households.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Misleading
The proposed budget would cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama's first term.
The comparison used an unusually high crisis-year starting point and administration projections. CBO forecast a roughly 48% decline by 2013 but much larger cumulative deficits than the administration.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
Unresolved
The administration had identified about $2 trillion in budget savings over ten years.
The figure represented proposed policy changes and baseline assumptions, including reductions relative to projected spending. Whether they became realized savings depended on legislation and future budgets.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Fiscal year 2010 budget overview · CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget
4 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
Banks broadly leveraged about $30 for every $1 of assets or mortgage exposure.
Leverage near 30-to-1 described some major investment banks and particular balance-sheet measures, not every bank or every subprime position. The systemwide wording was too broad.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax cut to about 95% of working families or households.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, though not 95% of all households.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Misleading
The proposed budget would cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama's first term.
The comparison used an unusually high crisis-year starting point and administration projections. CBO forecast a roughly 48% decline by 2013 but much larger cumulative deficits than the administration.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
8 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would double renewable-energy capacity or supply within three years.
This was a forward projection whose result depended on the baseline, technology definition and project completion.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement · EIA Annual Energy Review 2009
Unresolved
The administration aimed to put one million plug-in hybrid vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015.
This was a technology-adoption target dependent on vehicle supply, prices, infrastructure and consumer demand.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Fiscal year 2010 budget overview
Supported
The Recovery Act included about $11 billion for electric-grid modernization.
The enacted law included approximately that amount across smart-grid, transmission and related electricity-delivery programs.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax cut to about 95% of working families or households.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, though not 95% of all households.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Supported
The Recovery Act provided an $8,000 tax credit for qualifying first-time homebuyers.
The enacted credit was worth up to $8,000 for qualifying 2009 purchases, subject to income limits and recapture rules.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
Misleading
The administration inherited a $1.3 trillion annual deficit.
Obama inherited an exceptionally large deficit, but CBO's final pre-inauguration estimate was about $1.2 trillion; $1.3 trillion came from the incoming administration's later estimate.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
Misleading
The proposed budget would cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama's first term.
The comparison used an unusually high crisis-year starting point and administration projections. CBO forecast a roughly 48% decline by 2013 but much larger cumulative deficits than the administration.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
3 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax cut to about 95% of working families or households.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, though not 95% of all households.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Misleading
The proposed budget would cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama's first term.
The comparison used an unusually high crisis-year starting point and administration projections. CBO forecast a roughly 48% decline by 2013 but much larger cumulative deficits than the administration.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
2 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
The proposed budget would cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama's first term.
The comparison used an unusually high crisis-year starting point and administration projections. CBO forecast a roughly 48% decline by 2013 but much larger cumulative deficits than the administration.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
Unresolved
The administration had identified about $2 trillion in budget savings over ten years.
The figure represented proposed policy changes and baseline assumptions, including reductions relative to projected spending. Whether they became realized savings depended on legislation and future budgets.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Fiscal year 2010 budget overview · CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
3 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The economy had lost about 4.4 million jobs since the recession began.
The February 2009 BLS release reported 4.4 million payroll jobs lost since December 2007.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
- Context
- Remarks on Energy ↗
Evidence: BLS statement on the February 2009 employment situation
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
- Context
- Remarks on Energy ↗
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Unresolved
Clean-energy investments in the Recovery Act would create several hundred thousand jobs.
The figure was a modeled employment projection that depended on indirect effects, project timing and the no-act counterfactual.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
- Context
- Remarks on Energy ↗
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects
4 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
False
The administration's budget assumptions were perfectly consistent with Blue Chip forecasters.
Both the contemporary Blue Chip average and the administration's own comparison showed private forecasts were more pessimistic.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org Blue Chip analysis
False
Nondefense discretionary spending would fall below its level under Reagan, Clinton and both Bush presidents.
The administration's own projections placed the fiscal 2013 share above multiple years under each of those presidents.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org spending comparison
Misleading
The proposed budget would cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama's first term.
CBO projected a roughly 48% reduction from the administration's $1.3 trillion starting point, but that unusually high crisis baseline obscured deficits projected to rise again later.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org deficit analysis
Misleading
Obama inherited a $1.3 trillion annual deficit.
He inherited an exceptionally large deficit, but CBO's final pre-inauguration estimate was $1.18 trillion; the $1.3 trillion figure came from a later Obama administration estimate.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org inherited-deficit analysis
4 attributable claims assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax cut to about 95% of working families or households.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, though not 95% of all households.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Supported
The Recovery Act provided an $8,000 tax credit for qualifying first-time homebuyers.
The enacted credit was worth up to $8,000 for qualifying 2009 purchases, subject to income limits and recapture rules.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
Supported
The Recovery Act provided an $8,000 tax credit for qualifying first-time homebuyers.
The enacted credit was worth up to $8,000 for qualifying 2009 purchases, subject to income limits and recapture rules.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
Misleading
The proposed budget would cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama's first term.
The comparison used an unusually high crisis-year starting point and administration projections. CBO forecast a roughly 48% decline by 2013 but much larger cumulative deficits than the administration.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
3 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax cut to about 95% of working families or households.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, though not 95% of all households.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Misleading
The proposed budget would cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama's first term.
The comparison used an unusually high crisis-year starting point and administration projections. CBO forecast a roughly 48% decline by 2013 but much larger cumulative deficits than the administration.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
Supported
The proposed VA funding increase was the largest in roughly 30 years.
The fiscal-year 2010 submission proposed a historically large year-over-year VA discretionary increase, supporting the administration's comparison.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Department of Veterans Affairs fiscal year 2010 budget submission
1 attributable claim assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The administration ordered about 17,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
The February 2009 deployment order authorized approximately 17,000 additional personnel.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Archived White House Afghanistan troop announcement
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
1 attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax cut to about 95% of working families or households.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, though not 95% of all households.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
1 attributable claim assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The automobile industry had shed more than 400,000 jobs over the preceding year.
BLS motor-vehicle manufacturing, parts and dealer employment data support a loss of that scale under the administration's broad industry definition.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
No Obama-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Obama-participation transcript inventory.
2009-04
April 1–29, 2009
Mexico policy and the 100-day news conference have completed review across firearms, employment, tax and health-insurance claims.
29calendar days63spoken records
Transcript status: 63 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending.
Supported14False1Misleading5Unresolved9
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
1 attributable claim assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The unemployment rate had reached 8.5%.
BLS initially reported an 8.5% unemployment rate for March 2009.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
6 indexed spoken records · 6 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No Obama-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Obama-participation transcript inventory.
1 attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
About 154,000 veterans were homeless on a given night.
VA's contemporary estimates were in that range, although later point-in-time methodology produced lower estimates.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: VA CHALENG report on homeless veterans
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No Obama-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Obama-participation transcript inventory.
5 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would save or create roughly three million to four million jobs.
CBO and private models projected substantial employment gains relative to a no-act counterfactual, but the precise number was model-dependent and could not be directly observed.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO estimate of the Recovery Act's economic effects · CBO review of Recovery Act employment effects · FactCheck.org review of Recovery Act projections
Unresolved
Thousands of Recovery Act transportation or construction projects had already been approved or started.
Project counts changed quickly and often mixed approvals, obligations, bids and actual construction starts. The broad scale was plausible, but the precise contemporaneous count is not consistently reproducible.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Supported
The Recovery Act was the largest new Federal infrastructure investment since construction of the Interstate Highway System.
Under the administration's broad infrastructure category, the Recovery Act exceeded intervening one-time Federal packages; the comparison did not mean ordinary annual infrastructure spending had ceased.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement · ASCE 2009 infrastructure report card
Supported
Traffic congestion was costing the country roughly $80 billion annually.
The Texas Transportation Institute estimated urban congestion costs near that level using time and fuel-loss models.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Texas Transportation Institute 2009 Urban Mobility Report
Misleading
Bad roads and driving conditions caused about 14,000 deaths each year.
Roughly 14,000 fatalities occurred in roadway-departure crashes, but attributing all of them to deficient roads rather than driver behavior, speed, impairment, weather and vehicle factors overstated the infrastructure evidence.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: ASCE 2009 infrastructure report card
5 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The recession had eliminated roughly five million payroll jobs.
By March 2009, BLS data showed job losses approaching or exceeding five million depending on the endpoint and revision vintage.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BLS Employment Situation, March 2009
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax cut to about 95% of working families or households.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, though not 95% of all households.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Unresolved
The Recovery Act would double renewable-energy capacity or supply within three years.
This was a forward projection whose result depended on the baseline, technology definition and project completion.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement · EIA Annual Energy Review 2009
Unresolved
The housing plan could save up to four million homeowners from foreclosure.
This was the prospective reach of the modification program, not a direct count of foreclosures prevented.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Supported
In one year the financial sector accounted for about 40% of U.S. corporate profits.
BEA industry accounts show the finance sector's share approached 40% around the early-2000s peak, though it was not the share in every recent year.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: BEA national income and product accounts
4 attributable claims assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
The administration had identified about $2 trillion in budget savings over ten years.
The figure represented proposed policy changes and baseline assumptions, including reductions relative to projected spending. Whether they became realized savings depended on legislation and future budgets.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
- Context
- Remarks on Tax Reform ↗
Evidence: Fiscal year 2010 budget overview · CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget
Supported
The budget proposed returning top-income tax rates to their Clinton-era levels for the wealthiest taxpayers.
The proposal allowed the 2001 and 2003 reductions in the top rates to expire for high-income households, restoring the 1990s statutory rates.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
- Context
- Remarks on Tax Reform ↗
Evidence: Fiscal year 2010 budget overview
False
The Recovery Act provided a $2,500 tax credit for all four years of college.
The expanded American Opportunity Tax Credit was authorized for 2009 and 2010, not automatically for all four years of a student's education.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
- Context
- Remarks on Tax Reform ↗
Unresolved
Recovery Act tax provisions would lift more than two million Americans out of poverty.
The figure came from microsimulation of household incomes and depended on the poverty measure, take-up and counterfactual earnings.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
- Context
- Remarks on Tax Reform ↗
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
1 attributable claim assessed
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Misleading
More than 90% of the guns recovered in Mexico came from the United States.
The 90% figure applied to the subset submitted to U.S. authorities and successfully traced; the share of all guns recovered in Mexico was unknown.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org Mexico-guns analysis
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
3 attributable claims assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
Wind and solar supplied less than 3% of U.S. electricity.
EIA generation data show wind and solar together supplied well under 3% in 2008; broader renewable categories including hydropower were much larger.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: EIA Annual Energy Review 2009
Supported
The budget proposed $15 billion per year for ten years for clean-energy technology.
The fiscal-year 2010 budget described a $150 billion ten-year clean-energy investment financed in part through proposed climate policy.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Fiscal year 2010 budget overview
Supported
The Recovery Act included about $11 billion for electric-grid modernization.
The enacted law included approximately that amount across smart-grid, transmission and related electricity-delivery programs.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
1 attributable claim assessed
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Supported
The Recovery Act expanded the college tax credit to as much as $2,500 for eligible expenses.
The American Opportunity Tax Credit had a $2,500 maximum for 2009 and 2010. This does not validate separate claims that it was guaranteed for all four years of college.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO cost estimate for the Recovery Act conference agreement
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
1 indexed spoken record · 1 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
No Obama-participation spoken record indexed
No indexed spoken record for this date.This does not establish that no public activity occurred; it records only the boundary of the located Obama-participation transcript inventory.
1 attributable claim assessed
2 indexed spoken records · 2 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
The administration set a goal of devoting more than 3% of GDP to research and development.
This was a national investment target involving both public and private spending, not a current spending level or completed outcome.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: National Science Foundation research and development indicators
Transcript review complete · no assessed claim
4 indexed spoken records · 4 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
7 attributable claims assessed
3 indexed spoken records · 3 complete · 0 in progress · 0 pending
Unresolved
The Recovery Act had already saved or created more than 150,000 jobs.
The figure was a model-based estimate presented before recipient reporting began, not a direct count of identifiable jobs.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org jobs-estimate review
Supported
The Recovery Act provided a tax cut to 95% of working families.
The Making Work Pay credit reached roughly 95% of households with workers, though the narrower wording did not mean 95% of all households.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org tax-credit analysis
Misleading
A law provided health insurance for 11 million children whose parents worked full time.
The 11 million CHIP figure was sound, but no full-time-employment requirement applied to parents.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org CHIP analysis
Unresolved
The housing plan had already contributed to a spike in mortgage refinancing.
Refinancing rose as mortgage rates fell, but the available evidence could not isolate how much of that movement was caused by the housing plan itself.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: FactCheck.org 100-day review
Misleading
The administration inherited a $1.3 trillion annual deficit.
Obama inherited an exceptionally large deficit, but CBO's final pre-inauguration estimate was about $1.2 trillion; $1.3 trillion came from the incoming administration's later estimate.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
Misleading
The proposed budget would cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama's first term.
The comparison used an unusually high crisis-year starting point and administration projections. CBO forecast a roughly 48% decline by 2013 but much larger cumulative deficits than the administration.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: CBO preliminary analysis of the President's budget · FactCheck.org first-100-days review
Supported
The administration ordered about 17,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
The February 2009 deployment order authorized approximately 17,000 additional personnel.
- Speaker
- Barack H. Obama
Evidence: Archived White House Afghanistan troop announcement
All 187 indexed Obama-participation spoken records have completed paragraph-by-paragraph review. The assessment excludes repeated wording within the same transcript, ceremonial facts, personal anecdotes, policy preferences, predictions without a checkable factual premise and claims for which no responsible attribution could be established. Later source corrections or newly available records can still justify a specific revision.