.223 - Velocity 3150 fps, 1250 ft-lb Energy
.30-06 - Velocity 2820 fps, 2920 ft-lb Energy
Yeah...silliness and ambiguity. I know a guy that was parroting Biden’s idiocy on 9 mm terminal ballistics. He owns several of .38 revolvers, which he assured me were less powerful than the 9 mm.
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
News companies can at least get journalists who can look up Wikipedia articles on the subject.
They get this wrong every time.