Biden Gets Number ‘So Wrong’ Twice, Hit With 4 ‘Pinocchios’ After He ‘Stumbled Badly’

President Joe Biden is getting slapped with “four Pinocchios” after he “stumbled” by repeatedly citing a “wildly exaggerated” number estimating the number of construction jobs that would be created over the next six years.

On Aug. 9, the president signed the Chips Act and declared, “There’s an analysis that says investment in the Chips and Science Act will create 1 million — more than 1 million construction jobs alone over the next six years building semiconductor factories in America.”

And two days later, he tweeted, “Investments in the CHIPS and Science Law will create more than 1 million construction jobs alone over the next 6 years building semiconductor factories in America.”

That claim piqued the interest of Glen Kessler, The Washington Post’s fact-checker, who looked into the number.

“We’ve learned from experience that when a president utters a big job-creation number, it’s ripe for fact-checking. So we were curious to learn how the president’s job prediction for the Chips and Science Act — which will provide nearly $53 billion for U.S. semiconductor research, development, manufacturing and workforce development — was developed,” he wrote in an article published Thursday.

Kessler noted that Biden “mentioned an ‘analysis’ as the source for the claim that 1 million construction jobs would be created.”

However, he pointed out that the figure did not appear on the White House “fact sheet” about the bill.

“It turns out this number is wildly exaggerated,” he wrote.

The fact-checker wrote that the “first tip-off” was just the size of the number and that it was around 1 million jobs.

“The second tip-off is that Biden was specific — 1 million construction jobs in six years. Before the pandemic tanked jobs, the U.S. economy took four years to add 1 million construction jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics data — from all industries, not just the semiconductor business,” he added.