
Fact-checking Biden's first news conference as president
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President Joe Biden held the first formal news conference of his presidency on Thursday, taking questions in the East Room of the White House on immigration, foreign policy, the Senate filibuster, his political future and other subjects.
Here is a fact check of some of the claims he made.
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