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White House Deletes Tweet Bragging About Bump In Social Security Checks After Fact Checkers Obliterate Narrative
Daily Caller ^
| November 02, 2022 11:00 AM ET
| BRIANNA LYMAN
Posted on 11/02/2022 8:56:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
The White House deleted a tweet Wednesday that bragged about a bump in social security checks after fact checkers called them out for the faulty narrative.
The White House tweeted that “seniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President Biden’s leadership.”
Seniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President Biden’s leadership.
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 1, 2022
Twitter added a fact check to the tweet, noting that while Seniors will receive an increase in their social security benefits, it’s “due to the annual cost of living adjustment, which is based on the inflation rate.”
CNN’s fact-checker Daniel Dale called the White House’s claim “quite the spin.”
“The size of Social Security checks is linked, by law, to inflation. This year’s increase is unusually big because the inflation rate is unusually big.”
Former President Richard Nixon signed a law into place in 1972 that granted automatic benefit adjustments based on the Consumer Price Index.
Inflation increased 0.4% in September from August while core inflation rose 6.6% year-over-year.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; musk; truthsocial; twitter
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HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK PEOPLE ARE?..................
To: Red Badger
Have you seen the DemonRat party!?
Think about their platform and reconsider your question.
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posted on
11/02/2022 8:59:46 AM PDT
by
Aevery_Freeman
(When did my Color TV become Colored TV?)
To: Aevery_Freeman
😜👍👌...........................
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posted on
11/02/2022 9:00:25 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Without Bidinflation, the COLA jump would not have been near as big as it is.....so I guess SloJoe CAN take some credit for it.
/s
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posted on
11/02/2022 9:00:37 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(First we beat the Nazis........then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
To: Red Badger
“ HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK PEOPLE ARE?”
Very.
They think people are very stupid. In many cases they are correct.
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posted on
11/02/2022 9:00:55 AM PDT
by
bk1000
(Banned from Breitbart)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/02/2022 9:01:03 AM PDT
by
FamiliarFace
(I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
To: Red Badger
I wonder if Twitter would have added that Fact-check a few weeks ago.
To: Red Badger
Will the White House release a clarification stating that they meant to brag about the rapid inflation rate?
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posted on
11/02/2022 9:02:11 AM PDT
by
robel
To: Red Badger
Twitter added a fact checkROFL
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posted on
11/02/2022 9:02:29 AM PDT
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: monkeyshine
Elon!.........................
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posted on
11/02/2022 9:04:04 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
This was misinformation.
The entire administration needs to be sent to Gitmo and re-educated!
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posted on
11/02/2022 9:04:06 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
To: Red Badger
they don't include food or fuel.....they slip these little rule changes in ....
we don't elect anybody in this country....
we're run by bureaucrats.
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posted on
11/02/2022 9:04:38 AM PDT
by
cherry
To: Red Badger
HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK PEOPLE ARE?..................
It’s actually them that are stupid. How many SS recipients are active WH Twitter followers or even users?
SMH....
That’s like putting up a highway billboard advertisement targeting people who don’t drive.
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posted on
11/02/2022 9:04:50 AM PDT
by
nesnah
(Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
To: Red Badger
The Brandon Junta has cornered the market on whopper-lies and gaslighting bulshittery.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/02/2022 9:07:27 AM PDT
by
C210N
(Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
To: Roccus
“Without Bidinflation, the COLA jump would not have been near as big as it is.....so I guess SloJoe CAN take some credit for it.”
That was my first thought as well; he can claim credit in a “perverse” way.
To: nesnah
That’s like putting up a highway billboard advertisement targeting people who don’t drive. That’s like putting Braille on buttons on a Drive-up ATM..............
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posted on
11/02/2022 9:08:23 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/02/2022 9:08:43 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: Red Badger
Do you really need to ask? Most people ARE stupid!!!!
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posted on
11/02/2022 9:09:45 AM PDT
by
Codeflier
(Screw Ukraine. America is burning, and we need to concentrate on our own collapse taking place.)
To: Red Badger
HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK PEOPLE ARE?.................. As stupid as the people who believe those Medicare Supplement Insurance commercials...
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posted on
11/02/2022 9:10:28 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
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