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Costs from Trump's tariffs, Iran war fallout, and benefit cuts amount to much more than the roughly $350 average Americans reportedly receive from his signature legislation

Written by Zachary Pleat

Published 04/16/26 mma

Fox News and Fox Business personalities were hyping the supposed benefits of President Donald Trump's signature 2025 legislation known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on Tax Day, in part by pointing to Americans’ higher average tax refunds compared to the previous year. But the average tax refund increased by roughly $350, according to the most recent IRS data, a sum dwarfed by the additional costs imposed on Americans from Trump’s tariffs, increased gasoline prices stemming from his unauthorized Iran war, and cuts in government benefits that were also included in the OBBBA.

Fox celebrated Trump’s tax cut legislation on Tax Day

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December 9, 2024, edition of Fox News'America's Newsroom

BILL HEMMER (FOX ANCHOR): Trump did a long interview on NBC, Meet The Press. Here is a question about birthright citizenship, something that hasn't come up a ton, but it has now. Watch.

[CLIP BEGINS]

KRISTEN WELKER (MEET THE PRESS ANCHOR): You promised to end birthright citizenship on day one. Is that still your plan?

DONALD TRUMP (PRESIDENT-ELECT): Yeah. Absolutely.

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We're the only country that has it. Do you know, if somebody sets a foot just a foot, one foot, you don't need two, on our land. Congratulations, you are now a citizen of the United States of America. Yes. We're gonna end that because it's ridiculous.

WELKER: Through executive action?

TRUMP: Well, if we can, through executive action. I was going to do it through executive action.

[CLIP ENDS]

HEMMER: Take it to Congress too.

KAYLEIGH MCENANY (FOX CO-HOST): Yeah you heard him say if we can. That's because birthright citizenship is enshrined in the 14th Amendment. Not only that, in 1898 in a Supreme Court case called Wong Kim Ark they upheld birthright citizenship. In other words, there is constitutional precedent, there's Supreme Court precedent. You can try via executive action but I think there are going to be some very big court hang-ups that might not go the way of the administration on birthright citizenship.

HEMMER: It's been a loophole when it comes to immigration.

DANA PERINO (FOX ANCHOR): Yeah. Oh, it is. And I've gone back and forth because I love the Constitution! I'm an originalist. But then I also want — I would love to hear what this court thinks about that. Because they are originalists when it comes to the Constitution and see if that precedent would hold up.

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On the March 8 edition of America’s Newsroom, anchor Bill Hemmer reported from an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean to highlight U.S. Navy drills. After Hemmer emphasized that he was completely surrounded by ice, host Dana Perino ended the segment by mocking concerns about climate change, asking, “How’s the global warming?”

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CitationFrom the March 8, 2024, edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom

Hemmer responded to Perino’s quip, “It’s a very interesting story, because at the moment, there is none.” Co-host Shannon Bream chimed in, “He’s looking for some."

The idea that global warming is nonexistent because of the presence of cold weather — or in Hemmer’s case, miles of ice — is a feeble red herring that ignores the painful reality. Earth is facing “its ninth consecutive month of record-breaking warmth” after years of consistent warming, and scientists have repeatedly noted that “much of the planet’s warmth” is attributed to “human-caused climate change.”

The Arctic Ocean, in particular, is experiencing significant climate impacts. In February, the ocean’s ice extent was about 2% below average. New research predicts the Arctic could even become ice-free for the first time within the next decade or two. Greenhouse gas emissions are mostly to blame for ice loss, which will impact not only animals who depend on the ice for survival, but also humans who face the deleterious consequences of accelerated sea level rise.

The co-hosts’ jokes about global warming are just another example of the climate denialism that the network wholeheartedly contributes to and buttresses. Serial climate deniers plague Fox News, and the co-hosts' Pavlovian response to the effects of global warming is just a glimpse into the network’s pattern of pushing climate change misinformation.

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Fox News has responded to the indictment of former President Donald Trump for withholding classified documents with a swell of demagoguery suggesting this event signals the end of American democracy. But the network is pushing another ridiculous angle: That the indictment was timed to distract from House Republicans’ latest accusations against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

The conspiracy theory is obviously baseless. Special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of Trump has been going on for months, and Fox itself reported two weeks ago that Smith was going to conclude it soon. In order to buy into Fox’s claim that the indictment is a distraction, you would have to believe that the entire process of Smith’s appointment last November and his 7 month long investigation was timed to produce an indictment in June this year, just in time to spoil yet another House Republican attempt to kick up a manufactured scandal against the Biden family.

Fox News is trying to rehash the anti-Biden smear campaign behind Trump’s first impeachment

Fox News has for weeks been hyping up efforts by congressional Republicans to accuse Biden of having received vast sums of money from Ukraine when his son Hunter was on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. The accusation is a relic of the smear campaign four years ago that led to Trump’s first impeachment, when he attempted to pressure the Ukrainian government into announcing an investigation of Biden in exchange for receiving badly needed military aid to defend itself from Russia. The claims were widely debunked at the time, which did not stop the Murdoch media from ignoring facts their own news desks had reported.

In the latest chapter, members of the House Oversight Committee led by Chairman James Comer (R-KY) on Thursday looked at an FBI document called an FD-1023, containing a tip from a confidential source dating back to 2020, alleging a $5 million payment to Biden during his time as vice president.

Fox’s own reporting describes the tip as coming in June 2020, which was both in the heat of the presidential election and months after Trump’s previous efforts to pin a corruption charge on his opponent via the Ukrainian government. Even then, the source only said that another person claimed they were paying Biden, not that the source had this information directly. (Fox News is now ignoring its own reporting that “the document does not say Joe Biden received any payments,” with hosts speaking of “these $5 million payments” as if they were established facts.)

Trump’s former Attorney General Bill Barr told The Federalist that he sent the information to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Delaware. This would mean the information has been in the possession of the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for Delaware, David C. Weiss, whom Biden has not replaced during his term. So, either this Trump-appointed U.S. attorney deemed the tip to not be credible, or Weiss has had the information for up to three years and it could form some component of a probe of Hunter Biden. But either way, House Republicans and right-wing media would have no cause to complain of obstruction by the Biden administration.

NBC News reported that a senior law enforcement official said the FBI and a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney had reviewed the bribery claim in 2020 and determined that it was not substantiated. But on Thursday, House Republicans trumpeted the document as absolute proof that Biden was “100% guilty.”

Biden himself jokingly responded to a reporter Thursday, “Where’s the money?” And indeed, such a scheme would also have to involve some incredible degree of money laundering to hide the funds from his publicly available financial disclosures and decades’ worth of tax returns.

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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-melts-down-over-bidens-climate-speech

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fox News melts down over Biden’s climate speech

The network continues its toxic rhetoric against climate action

Special PROGRAMS

CLIMATE & ENERGY

WRITTEN BY ALLISON FISHER, EVLONDO COOPER & TED MACDONALD

PUBLISHED 07/15/20 3:52 PM EDT

On Tuesday, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden unveiled his revamped climate plan, which now calls for a $2 trillion investment in clean energy over four years with a goal of getting the U.S. to run on 100% clean electricity by 2035.

Since the release of the climate plan yesterday, six Fox programs, The Daily Briefing, Bill Hemmer Reports, The Five, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox & Friends, and Fox News @ Night have discussed it -- and they have covered it exactly how you think they would.

The plan triggered the usual hysterical claims by Fox anchors, hosts, and their guests about any policy or plan related to the reduction of carbon emissions: It’s part of a radical agenda, based on climate alarmism, pushed by extreme elements of the Democratic Party that will devastate the U.S. economy.

Or the shorthand of that narrative: the Green New Deal.

All six programs invoked this narrative while providing little substance around the goals of the plan or the multiple crises it’s intended to address including climate change, the country’s aging and toxic infrastructure, and mass unemployment.

Three programs -- Bill Hemmer Reports, Tucker Carlson Tonight, and Fox News @ Night -- brought on guests to discuss the plan. But these discussions were lousy with falsehoods and agenda pushing.

Fox “news side” kicks off the dishonest attacks on Biden’s climate plan

In a well-worn routine, the Fox “news” team provided the network’s right-wing stars with an opportunity to opine about the news of the day, which in this instance was Biden’s climate plan. The network’s “straight news” anchors have not been honest brokers on climate change and energy; yesterday was no exception.

The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino, which carried live Biden’s speech introducing the plan, invited anchor Bret Baier to weigh in on it.

Although Baier, in particular, has a reputation for not being as bad on climate issues as some of the more explicit climate deniers on the network, he has given climate skeptics a platform to attack climate science and climate action, often with very little pushback. Baier was the first person to disingenuously label Biden’s plan “a light green new deal that would still have a big government price tag to it.”

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CitationFrom the July 14, 2020, edition of The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino

Bill Hemmer, who took over former-anchor Shepard Smith’s news hour timeslot in January, told the Associated Press, “I’m much more comfortable in this news lane than I would ever be as an opinion anchor.”But during yesterday’s episode of Bill Hemmer Reports, the anchor allowed network correspondent Peter Doocy to read the Republican National Committee’s response to Biden’s climate plan with no pushback or contextualization.Hemmer’s subsequent questions to Biden surrogate Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) adopted a right-wing framing about the costs of climate action rather than the costs of inaction.[// lomborg/shill]

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CitationFrom the July 14, 2020, edition of Bill Hemmer Reports

With that, the “news” side had laid the groundwork for the “opinion” side to further distort Biden’s climate plan, which Fox figures did with abandon (more on this below). After the opinion hosts were done for the night, “straight news” anchor Shannon Bream allowed Larry Kudlow, director of the Trump administration’s National Economic Council, to lie about Biden’s climate plan with only the most cursory pushback.

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CitationFrom the July 14, 2020, edition of Fox News at Night

Fox News’ opinion hosts use Biden’s climate plan to beat the Green New Deal drum

For over a year, while other TV news networks have dropped the ball on articulating what the Green New Deal is and what it would accomplish, Fox News has been hammering the same messaging -- tethering the proposal to radical socialism, climate alarmism, and economic devastation, while vilifying those who champion it.

As a result, for Fox viewers, the Green New Deal has become synonymous with extreme socialism manifested by a fake climate crisis. The network’s opinion show hosts readily invoke the Green New Deal every chance they get.

As The New Times noted, right-wing media, in addition to Republican lawmakers and the Trump campaign, “have also labeled virtually every climate change effort as part of the Green New Deal — an ambitious plan championed by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, both democratic socialist — whether they are part of the proposal or not.”

Biden’s climate plan is no exception.

Fox’s The Five was the first opinion program to air after Biden's live speech, and co-hosts Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters both invoked the Green New Deal and its chief architects in an effort to align Biden and his plan with socialism and climate alarmism:

CitationFrom the July 14, 2020, edition of Fox News' The Five

Fox’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, whose July 14 edition was guest hosted by Brian Kilmeade invited discredited and self-proclaimed “environmentalist” Michael Shellenberger to respond to the plan. In their exchange, Kilmeade suggested that the plan must have been penned by more radical elements of the Democratic Party to which Shellenberger agreed:

BRIAN KILMEADE (GUEST HOST): Michael, who is writing this stuff? There is a presumption that we heard Jay Inslee talk about, we heard Elizabeth Warren talk about. This has never been part of Joe Biden's agenda. Since when?

MICHAEL SHELLENGERGER: That's probably fair. … I just think that the radical left has just taken a big part of the Democratic Party. One of the things that I was really surprised to discover in researching Apocalypse Never is that really it’s just about a dozen people that were major donors to President Obama who benefited the most from really about 90 billion in subsidies, in taxpayer subsidies.

Kilmeade ramped up his rhetoric even more the next morning while hosting Fox & Friends, claiming that Biden’s plan is based on the idea that the climate crisis, if left unchecked, will mean the end of the world in nine years:

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CitationFrom the July 15, 2020, edition of Fox & Friends

Prime-time host Sean Hannity did not mention Biden’s climate plan explicitly on his eponymous show last night. But during a rant directed at the presidential candidate, Hannity summarized the Green New Deal narrative with precision and demonstrated how foundational it has become to the network’s campaign against the Democratic Party. Hannity claimed that Biden “has taken his cues from the most radical, the most extreme socialist extremist that this party has ever embraced,’ including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY):

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Fox guests push bad faith arguments and falsehoods

Fox’s guests invoked bad-faith arguments and misinformation to criticize Biden’s climate plan. On Bill Hemmer Reports, longtime Republican operative Karl Rovesidestepped the actual details of Biden’s plan to focus on fracking, which he said that Biden has “endorsed the immediate end” of. Biden’s plan makes no mention of fracking, while Biden himself has not called for a ban on it. In Rove’s mind, only jobs in the fossil fuel industry matter -- despite the fact that clean energy jobs “outnumber fossil fuels jobs nearly three to one.”

Larry Kudlow, appearing on Fox News @ Night, generally echoed Rove. He lamented the loss of natural gas, coal, and oil, and failed to mention the climate catastrophe that mining and using these products are getting us to. And again, he ignored the millions of jobs that Biden’s climate plan intends to create.

More natural gas hype occurred on the July 15 edition of Fox & Friends. Texas Republican congressional candidate Wesley Hunt misleadingly categorized fracking as a technology that made the U.S. energy independent; falsely stated that “we’re doing just fine” through fracking; and repeated the age-old Republican mantra of “innovate for the future” to reduce carbon footprint. In reality, “innovation” to Republicans is just a way to continue burning fossil fuels and worsen climate change.

On Tucker Carlson Tonight, guest-host Kilmeade hosted Michael Shellenberger to criticize the Biden climate plan. Shellenberger, a pro-nuclear activist who has a history of pushing contrarian and bad-faith views about the environmental movement, mentioned a high price tag of renewable energy, even though renewable energy prices are at record lows, even lower than those of fossil fuel and nuclear. He also exaggerated fracking and nuclear power as a climate solution. While replacing coal with natural gas has led to lower U.S. carbon emissions, natural gas is still an incredibly dirty energy source, and its continued usage will be a disaster for climate change. Nuclear power generation, which is incredibly expensive, is also mentioned in Biden’s climate plan, making Shellenberger’s hand-wringing over the issue unnecessary.

Fox News is a key cog in the right-wing climate misinformation network

Fox has played a critical role in undermining the public consensus around climate change by eroding the trust of its viewers in climate scientists and scientific institutions. According to a study by the Union of Concerned Scientists, 72% of Fox News segments about climate science in 2013 “contained misleading statements.” Since then, the network has continued to parade a coterie of network personalities, fringe cranks, and conspiracy theorists to push misinformation about climate change and thwart climate action.

In 2018, “climate denial claims dominated 86% of climate change segments on Fox News,” according to progressive nonprofit think tank Public Citizen. And, in 2019, Fox’s climate denial reached unhinged new levels even as global temperatures reached record heights, natural disasters wreaked havoc on the most marginalized populations, and youth environmental activism sparked large-scale protests around the world.

As the general election campaign ramps up, Fox will continue going to great lengths to avoid having good-faith discussions about tackling the climate crisis. By painting any climate proposal as absurd and ignoring President Donald Trump’s climate denial and ongoing assault on environmental protections, Fox aims to fulfill its role as a propaganda machine for the Trump administration and the fossil fuel industry that is “reaping a regulatory windfall” during his presidential term.

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At a press conference Tuesday, Fox News correspondent Douglas McKelway told presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Bidenthat “some have speculated” he is experiencing “cognitive decline” and asked if the former vice president had been tested for it. Biden replied that he is “constantly tested,” adding, “I can hardly wait to compare my cognitive capability to the cognitive capability of the man I’m running against.” After the press conference was over, McKelway suggested on-air that Biden may have "mild dementia," because "there is speculation and it is widespread."

The "speculation" that McKelway referred to neatly lines up with Sean Hannity's talking points. The day before the press conference, Hannity alleged that Biden “can barely string two sentences together” and challenged the “mob and the media” to ask whether Biden has dementia.

Briefly, on McKelway: Roger Ailes hired McKelway after the then-local news correspondent became a conservative cause celebre for a bogus report criticizing then-President Barack Obama and “far left environmental groups.” He regularly attacked Democrats on his (now-deleted) Twitter feed, and drew criticism from within Fox after he sent an email to colleagues trying to defend Trump’s infamous comment that there were “very fine people on both sides” following the August 2017 neo-Nazi Unite the Right rally and resulting counter-protests. He was subsequently dispatched to cover the Democratic primary in spite (or because of) his past attacks on the candidates.

McKelway played his part at the Biden presser: A whole slew of Fox programs covered McKelway's question; anchor Bill Hemmer lauded him for it, as did Hannity himself.

The entire episode reveals how things work at Fox: The “opinion” side of the organization speculates; The "news" side reports what other people are speculating -- no matter what factual issues there may be.

Here are just some of the most notable examples of conservative media pushing this negligent narrative:

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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sean-hannity-trump-political-operative-and-fox-news-doesnt-care

you’d be forgiven if, amid the lead-up to President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate and the ongoing Democratic presidential primary, you missed BuzzFeed News’ story last week detailing how Fox News host Sean Hannity served “as a central point of contact” between the president and his associates under investigation during special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. But the report -- and Fox News’ lack of interest in addressing it -- marks new terrain for Hannity’s unpaid position in the Trump White House and his network’s effective merger with the administration.

Hannity has spent the last few years finding new and original ways to set afire the journalism ethics rules enforced elsewhere, from endorsing the then-Republican nominee in a campaign ad to failing to disclose that he shared a lawyer with the president to speaking at one of Trump’s rallies. Each of these instances underscored Hannity’s unconscionable role as a political operative whose first loyalty is to Trump, someone who simultaneously hosts a propaganda show enforcing the president’s positions while shaping Trump’s views as a powerful adviser.

The details BuzzFeed News revealed after combing through summaries of Mueller team interviews with key witnesses show that the Fox host hasn’t just been advising the president. Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and longtime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen each revealed to the special counsel’s office that Hannity had also counseled them on how to respond to probes from Mueller and the House of Representatives, respectively, even as he reported on their cases on his Fox show.

BuzzFeed News quotes from a particularly instructive summary of an October 2018 interview, in which Manafort describes Hannity as acting as a “back channel” to the president between the time FBI raided Manafort’s residence in July 2017 and when he was indicted in October 2017. “Manafort knew Hannity was speaking to Trump around then because Hannity would tell Manafort to hang in there, that he had been talking to Trump, that Trump had his back, and things like that,” the summary states. “Manafort understood his conversations with Hannity to be a message from Trump.”

The summary provides new context for text messages Hannity sent Manafort during that period urging the former Trump campaign chair to “stay strong,” suggesting that Manafort at least believed the remarks to be from the president to influence him not to cooperate with the Mueller probe. And it shows Hannity privately and egregiously engaged with the subjects of his putative reporting.

These revelations would be completely unacceptable at any other network. But the most important line of BuzzFeed News’ story is the one that indicates that for Hannity’s network, they aren’t even worth publicly addressing: “Fox News declined to answer a series of questions BuzzFeed News sent the network about Hannity’s appearance in the documents.”

This passivity marks a change for Fox, which has previously responded to new revelations about its star host’s second life as an unpaid Trump aide first by pledging tough action and later by at least pretending to care with empty statements.Hannity’s 2016 appearance in the Trump ad led to a swift statement from a Fox spokesperson promising that it would not happen again. After news broke that Cohen had at one point represented Hannity -- a fact the Fox host never mentioned on-air while discussing Cohen’s own legal troubles -- Fox issued a statement saying that the host had been “spoken to.” And Hannity’s appearance on stage at the November 2018 Trump rally led to Fox statement that the network did not “condone” the appearance and that it “has been addressed.”

These were all woefully insufficient responses to what would likely have been, at any other news outlet, firing offenses.But they at least indicated that Fox felt it had to say something about its employee’s casual disregard for basic precepts of journalistic integrity. That no longer appears to be the case.

It’s possible that Fox executives have simply given up trying to deny the reality that Hannity’s top priority is the president, not their network or their audience. But this shift in public relations strategy may also speak to a shift in the power dynamic between Fox’s “news” and “opinion” side. In the past, Hannity’s ethical misdeeds would lead to an angry backlash from his “news”-side colleagues, sometimes spilling out into public view in the form of enraged anonymous comments to other outlets.

But over the past year, Fox’s “news” side has been completely routed in this internal battle. Longtime lead anchor Shepard Smith, who was willing to push back against the disinformation rampant elsewhere on the network and even feud with his prime-time colleagues, left the channel in October. His replacement, Bill Hemmer, is more comfortable hewing to the pro-Trump line and has used the media rollout for his new gig carefully avoiding ruffling the feathers of either Fox’s “opinion” hosts or the White House. Hemmer’s own replacement, Ed Henry, has spent the last few years cozily ensconced on Fox & Friends’ curvy couch as a co-host of its weekend edition. With Smith gone, voices of criticism within Fox seem to have been muted.

With the “news” side either replaced by shills or cowed by the changing of the guard, Fox executives no longer face internal pressure to rein in the likes of Hannity. That may leave them with no reason to restrain their opinion hosts other than their own regard for journalistic ethics. And as the ongoing silence on the Manafort connection shows, that doesn’t amount to much.

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https://www.mediamatters.org/bill-hemmer/bill-hemmer-fox-shows-it-fully-committed-pro-trump-line

Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer will replace Shepard Smith, who abruptly resigned in October after reportedly reaching a breaking point with Fox's pro-Trump propaganda.

While Smith stood out at Fox for his honest reporting, Hemmer has a history of pushing misinformation, smears, and Republican talking points verbatim. His elevation to the 3 p.m. hour underscores that the network, both on the opinion side and the “straight news” side, is committed to the pro-Trump line.

Hemmer has repeatedly:

Hemmer has also earned him praise from President Trump for uncritical coverage of his rallies.