Right-wing media spent months advocating for Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which paired historic cuts to the social safety net with the equally unprecedented tax giveaways for the wealthy, all while funneling more money to immigrant detention than the entire federal prison system receives. Once the bill became law, many conservative pundits downplayed the harm it would inflict or simply stopped discussing it all together.
Support for Trump’s bill was essentially ubiquitous among conservatives. From the administration’s earliest days, right-wing media pushed false narratives to support the legislation, arguing that harsh paperwork requirements would only affect so-called “able-bodied men,” blaming immigrants instead of funding cuts for bankrupting hospitals, and even denying that the bill cut Medicaid at all. In other cases, right-wing media outlets and figures simply ignored analysis of the bill’s projected harms.
Now, as Trump’s law upends the lives of working people, right-wing media have continued to minimize the pain it will cause. The top 0.1% of households, on the other hand, will average a handout of about $100,000 annually in tax benefits.
Media Matters’ John Knefel wrote this great overview of how the bill is already harming Americans and how right-wing media is ignoring that harm. I invite you to read it here.
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