The first dishonest aspect of President Joe Biden’s latest massive multitrillion spending proposal was its claim to be an “infrastructure” plan. In reality, less than half of the spending goes to transportation infrastructure. Much of the rest goes to waste and unrelated partisan spending.
But the misleading narrative didn’t stop there: Top Biden officials repeatedly pushed an objectively false statistic about the number of jobs their plan will create. “The American Jobs Plan is about a generational investment [and is] going to create 19 million jobs,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Meet the Press. “It would create 19 million jobs,” White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese claimed on Fox News Sunday. The liberal Center for American Progress similarly asserted that the Biden plan would “help create 19 million jobs.”
