John Knefel

1 week ago | mediamatters.org | John Knefel

Figures at Fox News and Fox Business, along with The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board — three marquee properties in the Rupert Murdoch media empire — have called for drastic cuts to Medicaid to be included in the upcoming congressional Republican budget, which is also expected to extend President Donald Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.

2 weeks ago | nationalmemo.com | John Knefel

Fox News personalities have gone all in supporting President Donald Trump’s plan to extend his unpopular 2017 tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, offering a hodgepodge of justifications for why it’s necessary to keep taxes low for rich people and businesses as Congress moves to slash billions in social safety net programs.

2 weeks ago | mediamatters.org | John Knefel |Sophie Lawton

If the Republican Party were a factory, perhaps its only reliably produced widget would be regressive tax legislation. During Trump’s first term, his tax law — the main legislative achievement prior to the COVID-19 pandemic — primarily benefited the wealthy, with the astronomically rich realizing the greatest gains.

1 month ago | mediamatters.org | John Knefel

Some right-wing media figures have acknowledged the importance of Meals on Wheels, which receives some  from the federal government, as a key program to deliver food to the elderly and people with disabilities. Now, President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services — which helps administer Meals on Wheels — are putting the program’s future at risk. The Trump administration has thrown the Department of Health and Human Services into uncertainty and chaos.

1 month ago | mediamatters.org | John Knefel

Fox News personalities have continued to mislead their audience into thinking that President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans aren't considering massive cuts to Medicaid, even as both chambers have advanced budget plans that would require billions in reductions to the program in order to offset tax cuts for the wealthy. As Fox’s coverage suggests, those budget plans are unpopular even among Trump supporters.