• Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk condemned New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for how he “disgustingly” eats rice: “We in the West value cleanliness. We have utensils.” Media Matters compiled the racist and xenophobic attacks on Mamdani, which I invite you to read here. 

• Racist and antisemitic AI-generated videos are getting millions of views on TikTok. 
• Newsmax’s Michael Savage suggested arresting CNN owners for sedition following the network’s report on an intelligence assessment on strikes in Iran. 
• Fox New host Charlie Hurt bragged about Trump’s “gulag” in Florida.

• Joe Rogan called Trump’s targeting of migrant workers for deportations “insane.” 
• War Room host Steve Bannon called the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” ICE facility in Florida a “congregation facility.” 
• Newsmax host Rob Schmitt: “At some point every entitlement needs to be looked at.” 
• The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro: “The child tax credit is essentially a giveaway to people who don’t pay taxes in the first place.” 
• Only 4% of national TV news segments mentioned climate change while covering the record-breaking eastern U.S. heat dome.

Fox News’ propagandists aren’t terribly interested in the contents of the Republican tax and spending bill, which passed Congress on Thursday, or on the devastating impacts it might have on their viewers. But they know that President Donald Trump wants it to pass, and so they’re greasing the skids with their viewers to help it over the finish line. 

MAGA media revolves around Trump and his desires, but its personalities tend to be more invested in waging the culture war than in the nitty-gritty of policymaking. With regards to the Republican bill, Fox hosts have tended to be supportive of the bill while not dwelling on it. 

Throughout the week, right-wing media personalities continuously pointed out problems with the bill, only to then advocate for its passage. Newsmax host Rob Finnerty called the bill “highly average mediocre,” The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro acknowledged the bill had a lot of “pork,” and Newsmax’s Rick Santorum said the bill is “not incredibly fiscally sound.” 

Republicans hoped to pass the bill quickly in order to minimize the grueling political damage caused by enacting legislation that is wildly unpopular — and likely to become more so as the public finds out what is in it. Fox’s job in this pursuit is to ensure that viewers remain placid about the impact of the bill before it passes. The messaging dilemma for Trump supporters is that bumper-sticker claims of the bill being “great for the working class” and working to “reform Medicaid” won’t hold up to scrutiny. 

With the bill’s final passage, the goal of MAGA media will pivot from telling viewers that the legislation needed to pass to hiding its role in those crushing impacts.

On Fox News, network hosts and guests have repeatedly pushed false claims about cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act marketplace in the GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which is estimated to cause nearly 12 million Americans to lose their health insurance and cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid funding over the next decade. Some of these figures have completely denied that the Medicaid cuts exist while others have admitted the cuts exist, but insist that they will only impact “waste, fraud, and abuse.” 

While Fox misleads its viewers, local reporting has been providing a more honest assessment. Media Matters looked at local news outlets across all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and found reports highlighting the dire consequences of the GOP legislation’s cuts to Medicaid. We’ve collected that reporting here, along with details on each state’s Medicaid programs, including the various names by which the programs are known.

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” will roll back clean technology tax credits established under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act and have massive adverse impacts on energy prices and supply as well as energy sector jobs and manufacturing — all of which have been core concerns on Fox News for decades. But Fox has seemingly set aside its concerns around energy prices, supply, and jobs and their impacts on the network’s viewers in favor of helping Trump get the bill over the finish line. 

Those core concerns were on display as the network repeatedly attacked the Inflation Reduction Act using a variety of disingenuous narratives, including claiming that it would raise energy costs. In fact, in the first two years after the act’s passage, the network mentioned the IRA more than twice as much as CNN did and 40% more than MSNBC did, often referring to the legislation as “the Green New Deal” and “the Green New Scam.” 

But from late May, when the House version of the bill passed eliminating the majority of clean energy provisions in the IRA, through June 23, discussion was extremely limited on the network, with no segments mentioning that repealing the tax credits will raise energy prices and kill jobs.