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   President Joe Biden touted what he considers his economic accomplishments   
   Monday during a speech at a manufacturing plant in Fridley, Minnesota.   
      
   Biden visited a power-generation facility operated by Cummins Inc., a   
   company that designs, manufactures, and distributes engines, filtration,   
   and power-generation products.   
      
   Cummins is spending $1 billion for manufacturing plants in New York, North   
   Carolina, and Indiana, Biden noted.   
      
   The president didn’t note that Cummins also is intertwined with China,   
   which reportedly accounted for 13% of Cummins’ sales in 2021.   
      
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   Here is a fact check of four claims made by Biden in his remarks Monday.   
      
   1. Supply Chain and Manufacturing   
   Joe Biden, who saw a major disruption of the nation’s supply chains on his   
   watch, talked about how a boost in manufacturing jobs is changing that   
   situation.   
      
   “Before the pandemic, supply chain wasn’t something most Americans spent   
   much time thinking about,” Biden said. “But today, after delays for parts   
   and products, everyone knows why supply chains are so important. Instead   
   of relying on equipment made overseas in places like China, the supply   
   chains will again be made in America.”   
      
   The president added: “Where is it written that America can’t once again be   
   the manufacturing capital of the world? It used to be.”   
      
   In a report released Monday, the Institute for Supply Management showed   
   what it called the “fifth straight month of contraction” in manufacturing,   
   predicting “the road will be bumpy” through the first half of 2023, but   
   that improvements will come in the second half of the year.   
      
   Regarding the green economy in a broader sense, China accounts for 90% of   
   the world’s battery storage market, 66% of global solar panel production,   
   and 50% of wind turbine production, according to The Heritage Foundation’s   
   new report titled “Winning the Cold War: A Plan for Countering China.”   
      
   “Higher energy prices are driving manufacturing offshore, and the federal   
   government is wasting billions building charging stations in cold climates   
   where electric cars lose 25% to 40% of their battery range,” Diana   
   Furchgott-Roth, an economist who directs the Center for Energy, Climate   
   and Environment at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal in an   
   email. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.)   
      
   2. Joe Biden and Those ‘Brand New Jobs’   
   Joe Biden said the country has seen unprecedented job growth since his   
   inauguration Jan. 20, 2021.   
      
   “Here’s what it looks like across the country, a record 12,400,000 brand   
   new jobs, including 800,000 manufacturing jobs just since we came to   
   office,” Biden told the Minnesota crowd. “That’s more jobs in two years   
   than any president has created in four years.”   
      
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   However, that ignores the downturn of the economy imposed by pandemic   
   shutdowns and a relatively quick recovery under the strong economy left   
   Biden by his predecessor, E.J. Atoni, a research fellow for economics at   
   The Heritage Foundation, recently wrote.   
      
   The economy lost 20.5 million jobs in March 2020, the first month of the   
   national shutdown, which was unprecedented. Further, 41% of the lost jobs   
   recouped after the initial COVID-19 outbreak were manufacturing jobs.   
      
   “Recovering lost jobs is hardly the same, however, as job ‘creation,’ a   
   word that the president uses frequently,” Antoni wrote. “Yet, even if   
   Biden wants to play that game, he still doesn’t win. Using Biden’s own   
      
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