Fact check: Biden administration officials falsely describe infrastructure jobs estimate

CNN By Daniel Dale April 5, 2021 Washington (CNN)Top officials in President Joe Biden's administration have made a series of television and radio appearances to promote the infrastructure proposal Biden unveiled last week, a roughly $2 trillion package the White House has named the American Jobs Plan. But some of these Biden officials have inaccurately described one of the figures they have made central to their sales pitch. And while Biden's Friday description of this same figure was literally accurate, it was still pretty misleading by omission. The figure in question is an estimate from Moody's Analytics, a Wall Street research firm, of how many jobs the infrastructure proposal will create. White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese claimed on Fox News on Sunday that Moody's estimated that the proposal "would create 19 million jobs."

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