evidence: Vice President Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech on the final night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago featured high rhetoric but not many facts easily checked. Here are five claims made by Harris that caught our attention, in the order in which they were made. [...] Biden proposed spending reductions. Harris, having suddenly become the Democratic nominee, has not put out detailed policy papers yet, but it’s worth noting that Biden repeatedly proposed budgets that have failed to keep military spending ahead of inflation.