WH quietly corrects Jean-Pierre's claim Biden has taken more press questions than Trump, Obama, Bush combined

The White House has quietly corrected a claim made Tuesday by press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre that President Biden has taken more questions from the press than Presidents Trump, Obama and Bush combined.

Without alerting the public to the changes, the White House corrected the official transcript of Jean-Pierre's gaggle with reporters aboard Air Force One to read "question-and-answer sessions" rather than "questions," despite her making the claim four times.

The topic was brought up during the gaggle when a reporter asked Jean-Pierre whether the administration had decided Biden would hold a press conference during his trip to Ireland this week, prompting her to share data she promised a day earlier she would share when questioned on the president's lack of availability to the press. 

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"The President regularly — and takes questions from the press informally — informally as well at different locations and different formats. Right before he got on Air Force One, he took about five very newsy questions for all of you, which I think was very important for all of you," Jean-Pierre said, according to the transcript of the gaggle shared by the White House.

"The informal and informative Q&A that the President Biden engages in the — in with the press corps is more than — more than the last three Presidents … If you think about the informal questions and the formal questions. And I told — I mentioned to all of you yesterday that we actually had some — some data to share. It’s more than Presidents Trump; it’s more than Obama — Obama — combined —," she added.

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A reporter then questioned Jean-Pierre on the measurement used to determine that Biden had taken more questions than Trump and Obama, who had a combined 12 years in office prior to his presidency.

"We're happy to share that. I’m just letting you know," she responded, before the reporter then asked if it was based on the "minutes spoken" by Biden.

"It’s questions. I just said questions," Jean-Pierre said.

The reporter clarified that she meant the "number of questions" Biden has answered, to which she repeated two more times that it was.

Jean-Pierre stated a fourth time that Biden had taken more questions than Trump and Obama combined, but this time added former President George W. Bush as well, who served for 8 years prior to Obama's presidency.

"And here you go. To your question, he has answered over 320 questions, and that’s not even including more — more formal press conference and interviews. So look, we’re going to try and — we’re going to keep — be consistent in his engagement with reporters," she said.

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In addition to replacing each instance Jean-Pierre said "questions" with "question-and-answer-sessions" when the White House published the transcript on its website, it also added "in the first 20 months of their presidencies" where she claimed Biden had taken more questions than Trump, Obama and Bush. 

Fox News Digital reached out to the Biden administration for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Katie Porter complains to Colbert how 'hard' it is to be in Congress: ‘You’re hot, you’re late, you’re sweaty’

Democratic Party U.S. Senate candidate, Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., complained to "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert that working in U.S. Congress is not as glamorous as most American’s might think.

The liberal legislator insisted that the job is hard, claiming that it’s difficult for her to show up to work on time, that she gets sweaty, that she doesn’t know what’s going on all the time, and that she has to work with Republican lawmakers, like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., while on the job.

Twitter users offered the progressive a solution for her job-related stress: "Resign then."

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The congresswoman from California – who has been accused of making her staff’s jobs hard with abusive behavior – called out the "effort" to "pretend that Congress is glamorous, and we are powerful."

She declared, "And the truth is, it’s like you’re hot, you’re late, you’re sweaty, you don’t know what’s going on, you’re flying back and forth, and I think we should be more honest with the American people about, Congress is a mess."

She added, "And that’s because democracy is kinda supposed to be messy. That’s okay. What’s not okay is lying to the American people about it and pretending that it’s all easy and that it’s all cut and dry."

She then claimed that dealing with lawmakers from across the aisle makes the job challenging. 

Porter stated, "Because the truth is, it’s hard. It’s hard to go to work everyday with Marjorie Taylor Greene as a colleague." The lawmaker’s line really resonated with the studio audience which broke out in raucous applause following it. 

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Still riding her MTG insult, she added, "I mean, most people would just find a different cubicle, a different job." She then listed more work-related difficulties, saying, "It’s hard to commute 3000 miles to your job, right? It’s hard to work in an industry that is – before I was a politician, I was a professor and I actually used to be respected in my job."

The crowd laughed at the obvious punchline. Elsewhere, Porter stated, "Congress has about the same popularity as the American cockroach. and I think we should think about, why is that? Why don’t people like us? Why don’t people trust us?"

She diagnosed the problem as being, "We’re not straight with them about what it’s really like, about why it’s hard, about what the challenges are, and about what we can do about it."

Conservatives proposed some solutions for the Congresswoman on Twitter. 

GOP social media and digital Strategist Alec Sears tweeted, "Resign then."

Conservative account @thefactualprep slammed Porter, saying, "Then don't be in Congress and don't run as a candidate in elections, ffs. so tired of Katie Porter's act. She is horrifically bad as a representative and a boss."

Conservative influencer and Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., supporter "Just Mindy" asked, "Does she know she asked for the job?"

Washington Examiner columnist Ian Haworth was not impressed with the lawmaker’s complaints. He tweeted, sarcastically, "I wonder what it’s like to have coworkers you don’t like…what a unique experience that no other American can possibly empathize with."

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