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President Joe Biden repeated a previously debunked claim that he was the first in his family to go to college during a student loans speech in Wisconsin Monday, after being called out in the past for the claim.
'I, like an awful lot of people in this audience, was the first in my family to go to college and watched my dad struggle to help me get there,' Biden said in Madison as he touted his new executive actions to slash student loans for millions of Americans.
He has made the claim before, including during his 2020 campaign. The Donald Trump campaign flagged it at the time as inaccurate, as it had been during a much more serious incident when he borrowed language from British Labour Party Leader Neil Kinnock in a 1987 which helped end his presidential campaign.
In that speech, he said he was the 'first in his family ever to go to university,' in language that closely tracked Kinnock's as part of a longer passage. Biden subsequently told the New York Times, 'there are Finnegans, my mother's family, that went to college,' acknowledging the error.
President Joe Biden called himself the 'first in my family to go to college'
'The President is proud to be the first Biden to graduate college,' said White House spokesman Andrew Bates.
Biden, 81, during his Monday speech once again spoke about his
