CLAIM: Joe Biden led America's economic recovery in 2009, when he oversaw the Obama administration's stimulus.
VERDICT: FALSE. Biden's management of the stimulus was a disaster, with a buggy website and failures like Solyndra.
Democrats keep citing Biden's role in the 2009 stimulus as evidence that he would be best to manage the recovery of the American recovery from the coronavirus.
Obama gave Biden the job of overseeing the stimulus.
Notably, both McCain and Coburn blamed Biden: "Asked who is to be blamed for such projects in the stimulus bill, the two senators pointed to Vice President Joe Biden, who once likened himself to a"sheriff" overseeing stimulus spending," Politico reported.
Obama's economic team said that the stimulus would prevent unemployment from rising above eight percent.
The economy eventually recovered - slowly - in spite of Biden and the stimulus, not because of them.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/08/20/fact-check-joe-biden-mismanaged-2009-stimulus-recovery/
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