![]() ![]() However, 16 countries and territories – including Chile, Israel and the United Kingdom – have administered vaccines to more people per capita. So far, the US has administered vaccines to more than 130 million people, a higher number than any other country in the world. While discussing his goal to reach 200 million Covid-19 vaccinations in the first 100 days of his administration, Biden repeated his claim that “no other country in the world has even come close, not even close to what we are doing” on the vaccine front.įacts First: It’s true that no country has vaccinated more total people than the US, though it’s worth noting that there are some smaller countries that have vaccinated a larger share of their total populations. Vaccinations in the US and the rest of the world There were 118 cloture motions filed in 2020 alone, closer to double the amount filed between 19. Using either figure, Biden exaggerated the relative number of cloture motions filed in the past year, though he was accurate on his general point that the number of filibusters has increased significantly over time. ![]() If Biden was referring to the number of cloture motions filed from 1917 through 1970, he’d be right when he said there were a total of 58 motions to break the filibuster, but if he was including 1971, the total number of cloture motions would be 71. Molly Reynolds, a Brookings Institution senior fellow who has studied the filibuster, previously told CNN that most scholars think the best proxy measure is the number of motions filed for cloture, a move to end a Senate debate.Īccording to official Senate data, there were 58 cloture motions filed from 1917 through 1970 and 13 filed in 1971. In 2020, the number of motions filed to end a Senate debate – a proxy measure for the use of the filibuster – was about double, not five times, the number from 1917 to 1971. Last year alone there were five times that many,” Biden said.įacts First: While experts on the filibuster say it is hard even for them to pinpoint the number per year, Biden’s figures are misleading. “Between 19, the filibuster existed, there were a total of 58 motions to break a filibuster. CNN did not review preliminary March data specifically on family expulsions.īiden claimed that there were five times as many motions to break the filibuster in 2020 than there were between 19. For the week ending March 17, 53% of the 34,526 people encountered at the southwest border were expelled, the lowest percentage of a 2021 week to date. ![]() Preliminary data for this month up to March 17, which was reviewed by CNN, showed that the percentage of people expelled under Title 42 had fallen substantially since February. Published Customs and Border Protection data for February shows that 7,915 migrants who were part of a “family unit” on the southwest border were expelled under the Title 42 pandemic expulsion policy – about 41% of the 19,246 family-unit members who were in “encounters” with US officers that month.Īt another moment of the news conference, Biden said, “The overwhelming majority of people coming to the border and crossing are being sent back.” That is a fair claim about what happened in February, when nearly 72% of the 100,441 total people encountered at the border – in other words, not just family-unit members – were expelled under Title 42. Defending his approach to migration at the southern border, Biden claimed that “we’re sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming.”įacts First: This was not true in February, the last month for which we have full data.
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