Cheryl Casone
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July 27, 2026, edition of Fox Business' Mornings with Maria
CHERYL CASONE (GUEST ANCHOR): I was here. Well, I wasn't living here, but I was here a month after the attacks. And it's just all — you know, if you lived through that time, and you experienced it, you remember how horrific it was.
And he just — The Wall Street Journal's editorial board says "Globalizing the intifada in Mamdani's New York," and they talk about the current situation. But this ties back to why the 9/11 families don't want him there. Because they don't feel supported by someone who seems, you know, if it was 25 years ago, he'd be probably supporting the attackers on the World Trade Centers. I mean, that's my opinion but, you know.
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Some on Fox question Trump's efforts to hinder new renewable projects as power demand and electricity bills skyrocket
After weeks of blaming renewable energy for skyrocketing electricity prices across the country, at least three personalities appear to push back
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Written by Ilana Berger
:{Published 08/29/25
In three recent segments, Fox personalities questioned the Trump administration’s efforts to block new renewable energy projects as increased demand for electricity to power new data centers drives rate hikes.
Between 2021 and 2024, average monthly residential electricity bills went up by about $22 per month. Now, energy prices are rising twice as fast as the cost of inflation. According to The Guardian, a recent report from the think tank Energy Innovation found that, “Household electricity bills have increased by 10% since Donald Trump re-entered the White House.”
Several factors, including the cost of equipment updates in response to extreme weather events and an increase in demand for electricity, are contributing to the rate hikes. In New Jersey, grid operators have reportedly been slow to connect new energy projects, with many renewable and storage projects waiting in interconnection queues. In the first five months of 2025, renewable energy projects accounted for 91% of new electricity generation. But much more is needed to help lower the cost of electricity.
One such project is Revolution Wind, a wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that is expected to power “more than 350,000 homes.” Or at least, it was. On August 22, Trump issued a stop-work order on the project.
A few Fox voices begin to pierce through the network’s (and the president’s) anti-renewable agenda
Fox News has scrambled to find a way to blame rate hikes on renewable energy, recently focusing on New Jersey after wholesale electric bills in the state rose by 20% in 2025.
But in an August 26 segment of Varney & Co., Fox correspondent Madison Alworth discussed the stop-work order in Rhode Island for “national security concerns” and concluded that “at the end of this are those folks that are left in the lurch the ratepayers? Because energy bills, they just continue to go up.”
Host Stuart Varney then asked, “And they haven't spelled out what is the national security concern with the project, have they?” Alworth replied that “they have not.” Varney continued, “I thought we wanted all forms of energy to power AI, wind included.”
Fox contributor and wealth management CEO Mark Tepper told Varney, “That would make sense but what we really want is consistent energy sources, and wind is known to be intermittent. It’s inconsistent.”
(Though he appeared to question the administration’s directive in the moment, Varney has hosted Interior Department Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright to push anti-renewable energy talking points unchallenged in defense of cancelling the wind project.)
During an August 23 interview on Fox News Live, correspondent Rich Edson asked Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin why it was necessary to halt a nearly-finished offshore wind farm.
“What’s the problem with this wind farm in Rhode Island?” Edson asked. Zeldin replied that Trump is “not a fan of wind,” pointed to largely overblown claims of negative environmental impacts, and added that, “Our country needs more baseload power. … It’s just not an honest approach to this entire energy conversation if we start acting as if wind is going to be a substitute for all of those things.”
In an unusual move for Fox, Edson continued to challenge Zeldin. “This project is apparently largely almost finished,” he continued. “You’ve got AI, you’ve got the electrification of everything around us. I mean, we just need power. Why would you take any power offline?”
Later in the segment, after Zeldin plugged a proposed natural gas pipeline, Edson continued to press the question of renewables, asking, “Is there room for both, though?”
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From the August 23, 2025, edition of Fox News' FOX News Live
Edson and Varney haven't been the only Fox employees to push back recently.
In an August 22 Fox Business segment, anchor Cheryl Casone interviewed Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), a leading anti-renewable voice in New Jersey. Casone asked “The critics will say yeah, sure, but the money was already put through, these projects have already begun, so you’re going to get a lot of job losses. I'm curious if you worry about that?”
She also referenced that this is a nationwide issue, pointing out higher rates in Connecticut and Maine, saying, “The EIA reports that there’s going to be a 13% rise in electricity costs from 2022-2025 just in general. So this is a major problem. And now with AI data centers, we need all the energy.”
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From the August 22, 2025, edition of Fox Business' Mornings with Maria
Van Drew replied that “this was all about virtue signalling and nothing about reality.” He said he worked with Trump to make offshore wind “a dead industry because it does nothing good for New Jersey.”
Casone later mentioned how Trump’s signature legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill, eliminated the 30% solar tax credit for home owners, adding, “I know there’s a lot of solar use in New Jersey.”
Trump’s energy policies contradict his promises
Trump is actively shrinking potential energy supply and killing hundreds of “good union jobs” by halting the construction of the Revolution Wind Project, which began in 2023.
According to Ørsted, the company behind the project, Revolution Wind is 80% finished. It has reportedly created 1,200 jobs in the region, including 300 union jobs.
Trump promised to “cut energy and electricity prices in half within 12 months” during his 2024 campaign. Instead, the administration is actively pumping the brakes on new energy projects, and costs are up and expected to continue rising. In fact, the Rhodium Group predicts that “new clean capacity additions to the grid will shrink by 57-62% from 2025 through 2035,” tightening energy supply as demand grows. And since Trump took office, 64,000 renewable energy jobs have been cut or paused. BloombergNEF also recently found that billions of dollars in investments are leaving the U.S. in response to Trump’s anti-renewable energy policies.
Experts also say that Trump’s tariffs will make the grid less reliable by making batteries more expensive. According to Wood Mackenzie, Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports could mean that “the cost of a utility scale solar facility in the US will be 54% more expensive than in Europe and 85% more expensive than a new solar plant built in China.”
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Cheryl Cecile Casone (born July 18, 1970)[1] is an American television news anchor on the Fox Business. Casone serves as a financial contributor and provides weekly job reports. She also reports on the Fox News.[2]
Early life
Born in Clearwater, Florida,[1] Casone's father was an engineering consultant for the government, and during her childhood she lived in Sweden for about a year. Later she lived in Ohio and then moved to Dallas, Texas and then moved to Phoenix, Arizona.[1] She graduated from high school in 1988 from Thunderbird High School in Phoenix.[3] She considers both Dallas and Phoenix as "Home".[1] After high school, Casone attended Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, graduating with a B.S. in 1992, majoring in Public Relations.[4]
According to Casone that after graduating from college, "[I] took a little bit of a detour. I was a flight attendant (Southwest Airlines) for five years, and I traveled the world... I went to Africa and Australia and Europe-mostly Western Europe. I went to New Zealand, I went to Nepal."[1]
Professional career
Casone moved to San Francisco, California in 1997. She began attending a community college and began her career at CNX Media on the nationally syndicated program "Travel Update.".[2][1] She later moved to KRON-TV and served as a business and general assignment reporter.[2][5] and also anchored a business news show.
In June 2004, moved to New York City with a position at MSNBC and occasional anchor of MSNBC Live from July 2004 until September 2005. In addition Casone was a freelance reporter for CBS News, as a general assignment reporter;[2] and as freelance business correspondent for CNN, primarily reporting from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).[2] She joined Fox News in November 2006.[2]
At Fox, she is a former host of Cashin' In and a frequent guest host of The Claman Countdown.[6] Casone is also the former host of "Fox Business Now," an hourly business web update that can be viewed on Yahoo and FoxNews.com.
Casone has done live reports from Middle East nations such as, Syria, Jordan, West Bank, and Israel. She has interviewed world leaders such as Tony Blair, Shimon Peres, and Hillary Clinton.
References
- "Oral history interview with Cheryl Casone [with transcript], October 19, 2012". nau.edu. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- "Cheryl Casone". Fox News. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- "Fox Business Network makes Phoenix debut". azcentral.com. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- Northern Arizona University College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Hall of Fame
- Wotapka, Dawn (November 8, 2022). "Dawn Wotapka's Media Movers: Fox Business' Cheryl Casone". Talking Biz News.
- "Fox Business Anchor Liz Claman Quarantined Amid Possible Coronavirus Contact". the Hollywood Reporter. March 23, 2021.
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This segment exemplifies how Fox feeds garbage anti-immigrant slop to its audience
A recent appearance by Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin illustrates how the network pushes bad “worst of the worst” data
Written by John Knefel
Published 08/08/25
Right-wing media have worked symbiotically with President Donald Trump’s administration to manufacture false media narratives of immigrant criminality and to justify subsequent crackdowns on those communities. A recent segment on Fox Business’ Mornings With Maria Bartiromo perfectly illustrates this dynamic, as guest host Cheryl Casone enabled a Homeland Security spokesperson to uncritically spread a baseless statistic to bolster the administration’s claim that it’s pursuing the so-called “worst of the worst.”
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From the August 4, 2025, edition of Fox Business' Mornings with Maria Bartiromo
On August 4, Casone introduced Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin by discussing legal challenges Trump has faced in carrying out his mass deportation plans.
“What is the path forward here from the legal side, from the attorneys at DHS, to make sure that these deportations continue to be carried out as the American public had asked for?” Casone said.
(This framing is already misleading — in mid-July, polls from CNN and CBS News both found that a majority of respondents oppose the administration’s increased deportation program.)
After assuring the Fox Business’ audience that Trump’s targeting of immigrants had nothing to do with “racial animus,” McLaughlin moved on to what has become a common administration talking point to claim Trump’s policies “are focused on criminality.”
(Meanwhile, DHS recently asked the Supreme Court to allow ICE agents to use factors like speaking Spanish or working in construction as a partial basis for reasonable suspicion that a person is in the country without authorization.)
“Seventy percent of those illegal aliens who have been arrested under the Trump administration either have criminal convictions or pending criminal charges,” McLaughlin said. “So we are focused on getting people like MS-13 gang members, Tren de Aragua, terrorists, murderers, rapists — the worst of the worst out of this country.”
“We will keep on going, flooding the zone in sanctuary cities, and going after the worst of the worst,” she added.
The data point that McLaughlin cited — which Casone didn’t challenge — appears to have first been used in a DHS press release on June 26. DHS has used the statistic in at least seven press releases since then, and Trump “border czar” Tom Homan — the most frequent administration official to appear on the Fox networks since Trump's inauguration — has repeated it numerous times across right-wing media.
As Media Matters previously reported, the statistic appears to be false based on independent sources that collect federal data.
According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which is frequently cited in media and legal publications for collecting government data, “71.1% [of detainees] held in ICE detention have no criminal conviction according to data current as of July 27, 2025. Many of those convicted committed only minor offenses, including traffic violations.” TRAC further notes that just 24% of ICE detainees had pending criminal charges as of July 13.
Reports from CBS News and The Associated Press have found comparable numbers.
When Homan has recently claimed that 70% of ICE arrestees are criminals, he has sometimes added that the remaining 30% are “national security threats.” This figure appears to be the product of his own imagination. In some of statements, he has lumped in immigrants with final orders of removal alongside so-called terrorists and gang members to pad his statistic.
A CBS News report last month found that since the beginning of Trump’s second term, “3,256 of the more than 100,000 people removed were known or suspected gang members or terrorists.” That’s about 3% — not 30% — and databases that purport to list “terrorists” or “gang members” are notoriously inaccurate.
A news outlet that was interested in giving its audience reliable information might include any of that context when interviewing a Trump administration immigration official, but that's not the role Fox was created to serve.
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