Trump knows for Congress

In his address by the Congress, which lasted for more than an hour, President Donald Trump created a series of claims about his predecessor Joe Biden in the US position and his first weeks of achievements in the office.

He returned to major campaign topics including illegal immigration, rising prices and inclusion of “waste waste” in government expenses.

The BBC Verifai has noticed the facts behind some of its major claims.

Trump said he inherited “economic devastation” from Biden.

this is confusing. The US economy was growing at an annual rate of 2.3% in the last quarter of 2024 under the previous administration. It increased by more than 2024 as a whole. According to official US data.

International Monetary Fund Estimate The US growth rate in 2024 was faster than any other nation in the G7.

On rising prices, Trump said “We suffered the worst inflation in 48 years, but perhaps even in the history of our country”.

Inflation under Biden rose to 9.1% in June 2022 – the highest level since 1981 – because Trump claimed that he was claimed as before.

The peak of 2022 was in terms of high inflation in the rest of the world in view of Kovid epidemic and a global energy shock. The inflation rate fell to 3% until Trump took office.

Inflation has also been more than 9% at many other points in American history, Including the 1940s and 1920s,

Trump blamed Biden for egg prices, claiming “let the price of eggs be out of control”.

Prices are high, but it is associated with a bird flu outbreak in the US.

According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), egg prices rose in 2023 under Biden in 2023 and a dozen eggs in January had an average of more than $ 5. This is 53% above average for the entire 2024.

The USDA has said that the outbreak of a bird flu has inspired American farmers to kill millions of chickens, created eggs, and The $ 1BN (£ 780M) plan has been announced to help in dealing with this issue.

The outbreak began in February 2022 and last year the Biden administration allocated more than $ 800m to deal with it.

The Trump administration recently fired several USDA officials, who worked on the government’s response to the government’s government’s efficiency (DOGE) as part of the cost-cutting measures. They are now Allegedly tried to resume some of them.

Trump praised Elon Musk’s Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) and claimed that the advisory bodies found “hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud” at the expenses of the federal government.

No evidence has been given for this figure.

On its official website, Dogge says it has saved an estimated $ 105bnFraud detection, contract and grant cancellation, real estate lease termination, asset sales, workforce reduction, programmatic change and regulatory savings.

However, that figure cannot be verified independently, so far, Dogi has published “receipts” only on the website for cancellation of contracts, grants and real estate leases. They add up to $ 18.6bn. We have asked the White House to evidence of the remaining $ 86BN savings.

US media outlets have also highlighted some accounting errors. For example, Dogi initially listed its greatest savings of $ 8BN from scrapping an immigration agency contract – it later corrected it to $ 8m.

Speaking of his actions to deal with illegal immigration, Trump said, “As a result, the lowest records were recorded from across the illegal border last month”.

This is true.

In February 2025, 8,326 encounters along the South -West border with Mexico – Border patrol by us,

This is the lowest level since the start of monthly records in 2000.

In comparison, under Biden, there were about 140,000 encounters by the US border petrol on the border in February last year. Number fell for the rest of the year Up to 96,000 in late 2024,

Continuing with illegal stay, Trump claimed: “In the last four years, 21 million people put in the United States”.

There is no evidence for this high figure.

Encouragement with migrants on the borders – a measure of illegal migration – reached 10 million under biden, but this does not mean that many people lived in America.

It is impossible to know how many illegal immigrants have come to the US, as many people have developed law enforcement agencies, but many estimates have the number of half on what Trump said.

a report Published by Homeland Security Office Last year, the number of illegal migrants living in the US was estimated at 11 million by January 2022.

It says that the fifth of them came to 2010 or later, but the majority arrived before this time, some in the early 1980s.

On US aid in Ukraine, Trump claimed: “We have probably spent $ 350BN … and they (Europe) have spent $ 100bn. What is the difference.”

The BBC is not getting any evidence for verified Trump’s claim of $ 350 billion and some figures suggest that Europe has spent more on completion when Ukraine involves all assistance.

America, by some difference, is the largest single donor for Ukraine. But Europe has spent more money than the United States, According to the Kail Institute Think Tank,

It calculates that between 24 January 2022 and the end of 2024, Europe spent $ 138.7bn on the entire Ukraine, while the US spent $ 119.7BN.

The US Department of Defense has a high figure of $ 182.8BN – taking into account a wide range of US military activity in Europe – but it is still much lower than Trump’s figure.

We have asked the White House where it comes from.

The BBC is looking at other claims from Verififaf Trump’s speech.

Additional reporting by Shayan Sardarizadeh and Anthony Ruben.