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AP FACT CHECK: Biden's job inflation on infrastructure

by Hope YenChristopher Rugaber
| April 8, 2021 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his team have offered a vastly inflated projection of how many jobs his infrastructure plan would create, an account his press secretary corrected Tuesday. Biden has also drifted beyond the facts when dismissing the potential downsides of the tax increases needed to pay for all those roads and bridges.

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