• Fox’s Sean Hannity misrepresented an unflattering Congressional Budget Office report on the GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” Fox News’ online coverage contradicted his blatantly false assertion. 
• Fox News is complaining that the Congressional Budget Office’s deficit estimate of the GOP spending bill doesn’t include Trump’s huge tax hike on Americans in the form of tariffs. 
• The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro: “This is not a cut to Medicaid. It is a cut to future Medicaid growth.” 
• Fox’s Lara Trump credited her father-in-law, the president, for a “miraculous” drop in prices — but prices are actually higher now than when his second term began. In just one example, the average price of electricity has increased since Trump took office. In fact, The New York Times reported this week that the GOP spending bill in Congress may even cause those prices to go higher. 

• A Newsmax guest: “The problem with the big beautiful bill is that it doesn’t kick enough people off Medicaid.” 
• Newt Gingrich called for Congress and President Donald Trump to “abolish” federal judges.

• Fox News has almost entirely ignored the projection that nearly 11 million people will lose health insurance from Trump’s spending bill. 
• Newsmax host Rob Schmitt said about Republican cuts to Medicaid: “Pretty much all the 10.9 million are going to be people that should not be on the Medicaid program.” 
• War Room host Steve Bannon said the South Korean election may be “stolen” and suggested that there are “major discrepancies.” (This comment is not an isolated instance — South Korean conservatives have been pushing baseless claims of election fraud on far-right U.S. podcasts.) 
• Fox’s Sean Hannity called for mandatory military service for every American.

Trump administration officials and Republican lawmakers are getting help from their MAGA media allies to deny the effects of their “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which passed the GOP-controlled House last month and is expected to kick millions of Americans off their Medicaid coverage while cutting taxes for the rich. One myth that right-wing media figures are perpetuating is that large numbers of Medicaid recipients are able-bodied people who refuse to work and therefore should be removed from the program. This is misinformation. 

The vast majority (92%) of people on Medicaid already work or engage in caregiving, or have disability or other statuses that would exempt them from a work requirement. The remaining 8% of the population is overwhelmingly made up of women “who likely live in rural areas, are taking care of elderly parents or adult children, and have recently left the workforce,” not the hypothetical “capable and able-bodied men who refuse to work.” And furthermore, federal Medicaid funding already cannot be used to pay for coverage of undocumented immigrants; states that currently provide analogous health care coverage to undocumented immigrants do so with their own tax dollars. 

MAGA media is helping Trump and the GOP controlled Congress to kick people off Medicaid. They’re doing it by pushing misinformation.

Fox News relentlessly scrutinized and attacked disaster response under former President Joe Biden as part of its coverage of extreme weather events. But so far, the network has been quiet about the multiple states that have expressed frustration over delayed or denied disaster relief from the Trump administration. 

In coverage of recent extreme weather, Fox has also ignored concerns emergency managers have raised over the administration’s plan to “eliminate FEMA” and the agency’s reported lack of preparation for this year’s extreme weather season. 

A new study by Media Matters found that Fox News’ coverage of this spring’s extreme and deadly weather marks a clear departure from the network’s past approach, when Fox used these types of tragic events to stoke grievance for political gain. Fox hosts who recently scrutinized FEMA’s response and the availability of financial assistance for states and citizens hit by extreme weather are seemingly no longer curious about these issues under the Trump administration.

On Sunday, Ukraine launched a massive drone attack on Russian warplanes and airfields. Despite the fact that Ukraine did not notify the Trump administration in advance of the attack, some right-wing media figures are blaming elements of the U.S. government. 

• Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk said, “I sure hope America had nothing to do with” the drone attack. 
• Kirk’s guest host, Andrew Kolvet, said, “American fingerprints are very much all over” this attack. 
• On War Room, Jack Posobiec: “There are elements of the U.S. intelligence community that absolutely knew about this Operation Spiderweb and hid it from the president of the United States and the White House upper echelons of the national security leadership.” 
• Right-wing influencer Rogan O’Handley, known online as “DC Draino,” posted: “This attack was intentionally conducted to drag America into WW3.”