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1 week ago | 
mediamatters.org | Kayla R Gogarty |Courtney Hagle |John Whitehouse |Payton Armstrong |Jack Wheatley |Jack Winstanley | +6 more
In a new study of top pro-Trump online shows in the days after President Donald Trump launched his formal tariff plan, Media Matters has found some dissension as his economic policy disrupts the global economy — even as this ecosystem still overwhelmingly supports him.
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1 month ago | 
mediamatters.org | Reed McMaster |John Knefel |Zachary Pleat
On February 25, Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a budget framework calling for up to $2 trillion in spending cuts and $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. The resolution doesn’t directly call for cuts to Medicaid and instead uses a rhetorical sleight-of-hand to disguise the rollbacks as part of an unspecified $880 billion reduction in spending.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Chloe Simon |Reed McMaster
Last month, President-elect Donald Trump chose Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be his secretary of defense. Following the announcement, news outlets reported on multiple allegations of misconduct by Hegseth, including sexual assault and financial mismanagement. Some of the allegations were made by Hegseth's former colleagues at Fox News. While Fox News largely failed to report the details of the allegations, a number of Fox News and Fox Business staffers have defended Hegseth.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Casey Wexler |Reed McMaster
Right-wing media have spent over a decade attacking and calling for cuts to vital food assistance programs, with particular focus on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (commonly known as “food stamps”) as well as free school lunch programs.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Reed McMaster |Gideon Taaffe |Harrison Ray
CBS aired two different portions of Harris’ response to a question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — one on 60 Minutes and another in a preview of the interview shown on Face the Nation.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Jack Winstanley |Jack Wheatley |Reed McMaster |Alex Kaplan
On October 18, Rep.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Noah Dowe |Reed McMaster |Jack Wheatley
Baier’s questioning was described by mainstream outlets as “contentious,” “testy,” and “grievance theater.” “Mr. Baier’s aggressive demeanor was consistent with the kind of tough coverage of Ms. Harris that blankets Fox News’s daily programming,” recounted The New York Times, adding that “looking frustrated, he cut off several of Ms. Harris’s answers after a few seconds.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Reed McMaster |Rob Savillo |Harrison Ray |Casey Wexler |Tyler Monroe
In a press conference on September 13, 2024, Trump pledged to conduct mass deportations of Haitian migrants living in Springfield, Ohio, regardless of their legal status, clarifying in a post the next day that he was calling for “remigration.” At the press conference, Trump stated that he would deport migrants in Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colorado, to stop the “invasion” of migrants whom he claimed came from “jails” and “nests of bad people” in Venezuela.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Reed McMaster
“Pro-white nationalism” Trump ally Laura Loomer pushed a lie that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is allowing undocumented immigrants to buy guns. Loomer was responding to a comment in the chat on her Rumble stream noting that the background check questionnaire for purchasing a firearm asked for an Alien ID number if the person filling it out is not a citizen.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Reed McMaster |Casey Wexler
Right-wing media’s penchant for xenophobic fearmongering has once again contributed to threats of real-world violence, this time after outlets helped spread a racist claim about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, that was pushed by Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH). Since then, Springfield has fielded dozens of bomb threats, schools have been forced to close or evacuate, and at least one Haitian resident reported vandalism.
