{"id":2396910,"date":"2025-01-30T09:07:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legacy-media-blackout-biden-froze-spending-years-before-trump-where-was-criticism-then\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T09:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:09:38","slug":"legacy-media-blackout-biden-froze-spending-years-before-trump-where-was-criticism-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legacy-media-blackout-biden-froze-spending-years-before-trump-where-was-criticism-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacy Media Blackout: Biden Froze Spending Years Before Trump, Where Was Criticism Then?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flegacy-media-blackout-biden-froze-spending-years-before-trump-where-was-criticism-then%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2396910&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses President Donald \u2063Trump&#8217;s recent decision\u2064 to freeze billions in \u2063federal spending, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karine-jean-pierre-wont-apologize-for-hunter-biden-pardon-lie-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Karine Jean-Pierre won&#039;t apologize for Hunter Biden pardon lie - Washington Examiner\">drawn significant media scrutiny<\/a>. His administration paused certain \u200cfederal grants, excluding vital programs like Social Security, upon discovering questionable allocations, such as funding for condoms for Hamas.The piece highlights a bias in media coverage, contrasting the\u2064 negative\u200d portrayal of Trump&#8217;s actions with the favorable reception of\u2064 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-rand-pauls-plan-to-balance-the-federal-budget-in-5-years\/\" title=\"Inside Rand Paul\u2019s Plan To Balance The Federal Budget In 5 Years\">similar spending freeze<\/a> by former\u2062 President Joe Biden regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-in-texas-stops-biden-deportation-freeze\/\" title=\"Federal judge in Texas stops Biden deportation freeze\">border wall construction<\/a> in 2021. It\u200d suggests that media\u2064 outlets, notably CNN, are\u2064 aligned with groups reliant on federal funding and react strongly when these funds face cuts.it accuses \u2062the \u2063left of\u200d hypocrisy for prioritizing power over principles \u2062in political\u200c practices.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump earned quite a bit of media scrutiny this week after he decided to freeze billions of dollars of federal expenditures.<\/p>\n<p>Trump officials ordered a pause on some federal grant spending, but not programs like Social Security, after they learned that money was still flying out the door for absurd reasons, such as the funding of condoms for Hamas, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/29\/us-news\/trump-administration-reverses-federal-loan-grant-freeze-after-uproar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-jake-tapper-run-hills-stephen-miller-catches-desperate-claim-live-tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vast majority<\/a> of the federal workforce is leftist, and Trump learned in his first term that liberals embedded in the bureaucracy will always seek ways to carry out the uniparty agenda, even if a reformer finds his way into the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the media is now irate over the spending freeze.<\/p>\n<p>Several outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-federal-funding-freeze-widespread-confusion-rcna189581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rushed<\/a> to fearmonger over the confusion that the freeze ostensibly caused, even floating the idea that recipients of Medicaid would have their benefits shut off.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>But those same outlets had no problem with a commander-in-chief issuing a unilateral spending freeze when now-former President Joe Biden decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/got-billion-dollars-pocket-tx-official-snaps-auctioned-border-wall-materials-give-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">halt<\/a> border wall construction in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/28\/politics\/trumps-federal-grant-pause-confusion-medicaid-funding\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the Trump spending freeze, it claimed that the Trump administration sent &ldquo;conflicting messages about Medicaid.&rdquo; They also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/29\/us\/federal-grant-pause-what-we-know-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asserted<\/a> that &ldquo;many facets of American life are left in limbo&rdquo; under the spending freeze.<\/p>\n<p>On the Biden border spending pause, however, they could hardly find a negative word to utter.<\/p>\n<p>CNN instead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/08\/politics\/border-wall-contacts-canceled-biden-administration\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebrated<\/a> the move as &ldquo;particularly significant for landowners who over the course of the Trump administration fought to keep their property,&rdquo; and the outlet included a favorable quote from one such landowner.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for this is obvious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/5-embarrassing-jim-acosta-clips-cement-legacy-media-hack-complete-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> and its readers are politically and ideologically aligned with the web of nonprofits, interest groups, contractors, and other establishment entities that survive off the flow of federal dollars.<\/p>\n<p>When the money faucet starts to run dry, those allies panic, and so does CNN.<\/p>\n<p>But CNN has no problem with the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">money faucet running dry<\/a> with respect to border security.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet&rsquo;s staff members and owners largely do not live in border communities fearing for their safety or in rural areas gripped by the fentanyl crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the leftists once more do not care for principle, but only care for power.<\/p>\n<p>To them, the ends justify the means for virtually any actions they take to advance their agenda, and they will dramatically clutch their pearls and sound the alarm when the conservatives use those exact same actions to forward their own agenda.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a cynical, hypocritical way to pursue political victory.<\/p>\n<p>But such tactics should not be surprising, because at this point, we should all have noticed that rewarding friends and crushing enemies is the one and only moral compass that the left still happens to possess.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; 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His administration paused certain federal grants, excluding programs like Social Security, upon discovering that funds were still being allocated for questionable purposes, such as financing condoms for Hamas, according to the New York Post. Trump realized during his first term that many in the federal workforce lean left and will attempt to push a uniparty agenda even when a reform-minded leader is in office. The media reacted strongly against the spending freeze, with various outlets expressing concern over the confusion it allegedly caused and suggesting that Medicaid recipients might lose their benefits.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, these same outlets did not criticize former President Joe Biden&#8217;s unilateral decision to stop border wall construction in 2021. For instance, CNN reported on Trump&#8217;s freeze by stating there were &#8220;conflicting messages about Medicaid&#8221; and claimed many aspects of American life were left uncertain due to it. However, they praised Biden&#8217;s pause on border funding as &#8220;particularly significant for landowners&#8221; who had fought during Trump&#8217;s presidency to protect their property rights.<\/p>\n<p>The disparity in coverage stems from CNN&#8217;s alignment with various nonprofits and interest groups reliant on federal funding; when financial resources dwindle for them, panic ensues at CNN. Conversely, they show little concern about reduced funding related to border security since their staff largely do not reside in affected communities facing safety issues or rural areas struggling with fentanyl crises.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, this reflects a broader pattern where political motivations overshadow principles; those on the left often prioritize power over ethics and react dramatically when conservatives employ similar tactics for their agendas. This hypocritical approach underscores how rewarding allies while undermining opponents has become the guiding principle of contemporary leftist politics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2396911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Biden-v-Trump-3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,34959,35795,49479,3634],"class_list":["post-2396910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-legacy-media","tag-political-criticism","tag-spending-freeze","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Biden-v-Trump-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2396910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396914,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396910\/revisions\/2396914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2396911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}