Tuesday 22 November 2022 07:53 PM Twitter gives White House ANOTHER fact check for claim it made record one-year ... trends now

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The White House was pinged by Twitter after claiming the Biden administration was responsible for the biggest ever annual reduction in the deficit - with a context note pointing out that the difference between the federal governments income and expenditure was still the fourth biggest in history.

It is not the first time that White House claims have been fact checked on Twitter. 

Mostly recently officials deleted a tweet that took credit for a record increase in social security payments after users pointed out that it was an automatic raise based on high inflation. 

This time around it came after the White House said: 'The Biden-Harris Administration lowered the deficit with the single largest one-year reduction in American history.'

Officials have frequently talked up a $1.4 trillion reduction in the deficit.

But Twitter users were quick to point out all was not as it seemed.