The more things change, the more they stay the same. On Tuesday night, NBC Nightly News cried crocodile tears over proposed GOP spending cuts that weren’t actually cuts, and how the budget proposal would supposedly cause poor people to go hungry. In addition, NBC huffed that this could happen if the United States went into default due to President Biden’s refusal to negotiate with Congress.
NBC’s senior White House correspondent Kayla Tausche huffed that “President Biden and top congressional leaders [were] in a standoff over spending,” before whining: “House Republicans recently pass[ed] a plan to raise the debt limit if Democrats agree to steep spending cuts.”
The GOP did pass a plan to raise the debt limit but to call them “steep spending cuts” was a lie. They aren’t even cuts, instead, they were simply a decrease in the rate of increased government spending.
"Federal spending could be in jeopardy, including here at All Saints Food Pantry in Detroit, which could lose a third of its annual budget,” Tausche fretted.
She then interviewed Dave Allen of the All Saints Food Pantry, and two poor women to fearmonger over the congressional GOP’s spending plan. (click expand):
ALLEN: There could become a point where we don't have any more food to give.
TAUSCHE: Divine telling us she relies on this food. Her family already struggling with high inflation.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: The cost of living went up.
TAUSCHE: Yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: A lot. So it's hard.
TAUSCHE: A potential default could also put federal benefits for veterans at risk. We met Shannon Galloway whose husband Chris served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since he died 14 years ago, the Galloways have relied on payments from the government.
SHANNON GALLOWAY: Those benefits literally are how we pay our mortgage, how we pay our utilities, how we pay daily cost of living.
TAUSCHE: So what would your message be to the leaders in Washington?
GALLOWAY: This isn't just politics to us. This is our family. This is our daily life.
This kind of dishonest coverage was sadly nothing new. This leftist media playbook goes all the way back to 1995 during the budget fight between then-Democrat President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress led by Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.
As the Media Research Center’s November 1995 edition of Media Watch reported at the time: “Under GOP House plans spending per Medicare recipient will soar from $4,800 to $6,700 by 2002, or six percent per year. Considering this slight slowing of the previously planned increase a ‘cut’ reporters spent October aiding liberal efforts to turn people against the GOP plan to balance the budget.”
On the October 12, 1995 edition of Good Morning America, then-co-anchor Morton Dean cried "The Republican plan would cut $270 billion in Medicare spending over seven years."
Parroting ABC, on the October 14 edition of NBC’s Today, co-anchor Giselle Fernandez hyped "We're going to get to the very latest on Republicans' plan to slash the Medicare budget."
Twenty-eight years later, the leftist media’s math disability hasn’t improved. Only in their delusional world are slight decreases in the rate of spending considered a “cut.”
The media’s blatant lies about budget cuts were made possible by Liberty Mutual on NBC. Their information is linked.
To read the relevant transcript click “expand”:
NBC Nightly News
5/9/2023
6:38:08 p.m. EasternKAYLA TAUSCHE: President Biden and top congressional leaders in a standoff over spending. House Republicans recently passing a plan to raise the debt limit if Democrats agree to steep spending cuts.
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TAUSCHE: And some federal spending could be in jeopardy, including here at All Saints Food Pantry in Detroit, which could lose a third of its annual budget.
DAVE ALLEN (ALL SAINTS SOUP KITCHEN & FOOD PANTRY): There could become a point where we don't have any more food to give.
TAUSCHE: Divine telling us she relies on this food. Her family already struggling with high inflation.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: The cost of living went up.
TAUSCHE: Yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: A lot. So it's hard.
TAUSCHE: A potential default could also put federal benefits for veterans at risk. We met Shannon Galloway whose husband Chris served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since he died 14 years ago, the Galloways have relied on payments from the government.
SHANNON GALLOWAY: Those benefits literally are how we pay our mortgage, how we pay our utilities, how we pay daily cost of living.
TAUSCHE: So what would your message be to the leaders in Washington?
GALLOWAY: This isn't just politics to us. This is our family. This is our daily life.
