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In his talk in Congress, running over an hour and a half, President Donald Trump made a series of claims about the state Joe Biden and the achievements of his first weeks in the office.

He returned to the main campaign themes including illegal immigari, price increases and what he called “terrible waste” in government spending.

The VBC Verify is watching the facts behind some of his keys claims.

Trump says he has inherited a “economic disaster” from Biden.

It will mislead. The US economy grows annual rate of 2.3% of the final quarter of 2024 under the previous administration. It has been extended to 2.8% over 2024 as a whole According to official US statistics.

the The International Monetary Fund is estimated that US growth rate of 2024 is faster than any G7 country.

With increases in prices, Trump added “the worst inflation in 48 years, but maybe even in the history of our country”.

The inflation under Biden consumes 9.1% on June 2022 – the highest level since 1981 – is that Trump’s less.

The 2022 peaks are in the context of high inflation in other parts of the waging world in Covid Pandemia and a global shock shock. Inflation drinks dropped 3% of Time Taken by Trump.

Inflation is more higher than 9% of many other US history points, including 1940s and 1920s.

Trump blames Biden for egg prices, claiming he “permits the price of eggs without control”.

Prices are high, but they are linked to a US bird blow.

Egg prices climbed under biden in 2023, and in January a dozen eggs averaged $ 5, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). That’s 53% over the average for the entire 2024.

The USDA says a bird blast creeping farmers who killed millions of chickens, making egg defaults, and announces a $ 1bn (£ 780m) plan to help fight the issue.

The explosion began February 2022 and last year the Biden administration was allocated more than $ 800m to simulate it.

The Trump administration has recently fired a lot of USDA officials working on the Bird Flu government response as part of the Government Government costs (doge). Them now reportedly attempted to reconcile some of them.

Trump praises the Government Department of Pelete in Must

No evidence provided for this number.

On its official website, DOGE said it saved an estimated $ 105bnFrom detecting fraud, contract cancellation and providing final estate rental, asset protection, programforce changes, and regulatory regulations.

However, that number cannot be independent proved, so far, the doge “receipts” is just published for lease lease cancellation of leal and real estate website. It increases up to $ 18.6bn. We asked the White House for evidence of the remaining $ 86bn of storage.

US media outlets also highlight certain accounting errors. For instance, originally listed the largest savings of $ 8bn from scraping an immigration agency contract – it later corrects it for $ 8m.

Talking about his actions to solve illegal immigration, Trump said “As a result, the illegal crossing of the boundary of the last month of the lower recorded”.

It’s true.

On February 2025, there were 8,326 encounters on the southern border of Mexico – by the US Border Patrol.

This is the lowest level since the monthly records began in 2000.

By comparison, there are about 140,000 Border encounters in the US patrol on this February boundary last year under Biden. Numbers fall for the rest of the year to 96,000 at the end of 2024.

Continued illegal migration, Trump admits: “In the past four years, 21 million people poured out in the United States”.

There is no evidence for a number high.

Talks to migrants in boundaries – a measure of illegal migration – arrived at 10 million under biden but did not mean many people staying in the US.

It is impossible to know how many illegal immigrants come to the US, as those who have escaped the law enforcement agencies, but many estimates have placed the number of Trump.

A report Published in Office Security Last year the number of illegal immigrants living in the US, in January 2022, at 11 million.

It says about the fifth about them in 2010 or later but mostly arrived before this time, some of the 1980s.

With Ukraine’s US assistance, Trump admits: “We spent $ 350bn … and they (Europe) spent $ 100bn.”

The VBC Verify cannot find any evidence for Trump’s $ 350bn claim and the other eruphel suggests that all Ukrainian assistance is included.

The US is, by some margin, the largest donor in Ukraine. But the commercial combined has a lot of money than in the US, According to the Kiel Institute think tank.

It was calculated between 24 January 2022 and the end of 2024, Europe was a total of $ 138.7bn in Ukraine, while the US spent $ 119bn.

The US Department of Department has a higher number of $ 182.8bn – considering a wider US military activity in Europe – but it is less than Trump’s number.

We asked the White House from which it came from.

BBC targets to see other claims from Trump’s address.

Shayan Sardarizadeh & Anthony Reuben reported further report.