{"id":2458247,"date":"2025-07-11T05:27:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-recycle-2017-lies-to-smear-big-beautiful-bills-tax-relief\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T05:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:31:18","slug":"media-recycle-2017-lies-to-smear-big-beautiful-bills-tax-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-recycle-2017-lies-to-smear-big-beautiful-bills-tax-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Recycle 2017 Lies To Smear Big Beautiful Bill&#8217;s Tax Relief"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fmedia-recycle-2017-lies-to-smear-big-beautiful-bills-tax-relief%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=2458247&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 summary discusses the media adn political controversies surrounding the so-called &#8220;Big Stunning Bill&#8221; (BBB), comparing it to the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) passed during President Donald Trump&#8217;s management. Mainstream outlets and Democratic critics have repeatedly claimed these bills primarily benefit the wealthy and harm middle- and lower-income Americans, warnings which did not materialize following the TCJA. The 2017 tax reform actually increased the standard deduction, lowered tax rates for most income brackets, and provided meaningful tax relief to middle- and working-class Americans, as supported by IRS data and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the BBB maintains these reforms while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-coddled-kamala-harris-in-softball-interview\/\" title=\"CNN Coddled Kamala Harris In Softball Interview\">extending child tax credits<\/a>, exempting tips from taxation, and offering advantages to small businesses. The White House states the bill delivers the largest tax relief percentage to lower-income workers and makes the 2017 tax cuts permanent-an approach supported by a majority of Americans across political lines. Despite this, critics like former economic advisor Lawrence Summers have claimed the BBB will lead to severe public health consequences by reducing government-funded healthcare, a fear echoed during the TCJA debate but not substantiated by fact.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Medicaid, the BBB includes reforms aiming to curtail costs by limiting benefits for illegal immigrants and requiring able-bodied adults to work or volunteer to receive assistance, while preserving and strengthening support for conventional recipients such as children and the disabled. the article argues that the persistent negative rhetoric surrounding these tax and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >budget bills mirrors previous political fearmongering<\/a> and contradicts the facts about who benefits from the legislation.  <\/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<div>\n<p>Mainstream media outlets have repeatedly fearmongered that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/1\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Big Beautiful Bill<\/a> (BBB) will harm middle-class Americans, but those who remember when President Donald Trump passed his first major tax bill, the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/billsthisweek\/20171218\/CRPT-115HRPT-466.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tax Cuts and Jobs Act<\/a> (TCJA), are experiencing d&eacute;j&agrave;-vu. When that tax reform legislation passed in 2017, Democrats also warned of an incoming doom that never materialized.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, an NBC opinion piece read, <a href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/republican-tax-bill-insidious-way-fail-working-americans-ncna830946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;The Republican tax bill is an insidious way to fail working Americans.&rdquo;<\/a> Following the TCJA&rsquo;s passing, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/28\/opinion\/democrats-tax-bill.html?searchResultPosition=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> a collection of letters to the editor attacking the bill. The same message was pushed on television in a repeated effort to scare listeners into believing the TCJA was Trump&rsquo;s attempt to hurt the average American and help the rich. Former RNC Chair Michael Steele said of the TCJA that &ldquo;the American people have already sized this thing up to realize that they&rsquo;re not going to be the direct beneficiaries of any tax reform, but rather, very large, special, corporate interests are&rdquo; on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pgmoGWEznck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But this is simply not an accurate reflection of what the 2017 bill accomplished. The TCJA came close to doubling the standard tax deduction, reduced individual tax rates across almost every income bracket, and removed the Affordable Care Act&rsquo;s tax penalties, according to a report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/taxpolicycenter.org\/briefing-book\/how-did-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-change-personal-taxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tax Policy Center<\/a>. In The Hill, Justin Haskins <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/finance\/584190-irs-data-prove-trump-tax-cuts-benefited-middle-working-class-americans-most\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> that &ldquo;most middle-income and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-just-promised-america-a-massive-tax-hike\/\" title=\"Joe Biden pledges significant ... increase for America\">working-class earners enjoyed<\/a> a tax cut that was at least double the size of tax cuts received by households earning $1 million or more,&rdquo; referencing IRS tax <a href=\"https:\/\/heartland.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/documents\/Trumps%20Tax%20Cuts%20Policy%20Paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">data<\/a> evaluating changes from 2017 to 2018. IRS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/statistics\/soi-tax-stats-individual-income-tax-rates-and-tax-shares\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">data<\/a> also shows that while the top 1 percent paid about the same in taxes after the TCJA, the other 99 percent saw their tax burden drop by $65 billion compared to the previous year, as The Federalist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/03\/joe-biden-is-telling-lies-about-trumps-tax-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>When referring to the Big Beautiful Bill, however, the mainstream media is reusing the exact same rhetoric they used to attack the TCJA in 2017. CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/08\/business\/video\/jon-stewart-daily-show-congress-big-beautiful-bill-digvid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> a video featuring excerpts of comedian Jon Stewart&rsquo;s scathingly sarcastic routine on the BBB, saying, &ldquo;So even though some of our nation&rsquo;s most vulnerable are taking a pay cut, fear not! Other people are getting a raise!&rdquo; NBC pushed a similar narrative, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/30\/trump-bill-helps-wealthy-hurts-low-earners-yale-report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">touting<\/a> a Yale report that supposedly found that the &ldquo;&lsquo;Big beautiful bill&rsquo; mostly benefits the rich, while low earners would suffer from Medicaid and SNAP cuts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But the facts show otherwise. As previously mentioned, the Big Beautiful Bill retains the tax reforms of 2017, while extending the child tax credits, making tips untaxed, and giving small businesses stock advantages. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/articles\/2025\/06\/myth-vs-fact-the-one-big-beautiful-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House<\/a>, the BBB gives lower-income workers the &ldquo;largest percentage reduction&rdquo; when cuts are applied across tax brackets.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, polling shows that most Americans support keeping Trump&rsquo;s tax cuts. An April Public Opinion Strategies <a href=\"https:\/\/americansforprosperity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Protecting-Prosperity-April-2025-Survey-Memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">survey<\/a> reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/05\/us-news\/more-than-8-in-10-voters-support-keeping-trumps-2017-tax-cuts-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Post<\/a> indicated that 84 percent of Americans want to keep the current tax rates as of this year, including 74 percent of Democrats. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecScottBessent\/status\/1942237556730478688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a> to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, this is exactly what the Big Beautiful Bill does; it makes the 2017 cuts permanent.<\/p>\n<p>But immediately following the passing of the BBB, Lawrence Summers, former director of the National Economic Council under former President Barack Obama, joined in the media&rsquo;s demonization of the bill, invoking a national&nbsp;tragedy on ABC News to fearmonger about the legislation. Citing the&nbsp;same report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/budgetlab.yale.edu\/research\/long-term-impacts-one-big-beautiful-bill-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yale Budget Lab<\/a>, he&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/ThisWeek\/video\/gop-megabill-shameful-act-congress-president-summers-123514945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> the bill will &ldquo;kill, over 10 years, 100,000 people. That is 2,000 days of death like we&rsquo;ve seen in Texas this weekend.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Summers peddled the same hysteria in 2017, writing in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/036759d7-b96b-30f5-8a76-92c67bb0e547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Financial Times<\/a>&nbsp;that &ldquo;thousands would die&rdquo; due to the &ldquo;Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.&rdquo; In both his 2017 and 2025 omens, Summers referred primarily to a purported reduction in government-funded health care coverage.<\/p>\n<p>But the <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC5944881\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TCJA<\/a>&rsquo;s primary influence on health care was the removal of the individual mandate tax penalties created under the Affordable Care Act for those who did not have health insurance, discontinuing a manipulative government measure. As for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/1\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BBB<\/a>, Senator Ted Budd explained days before it passed that it would not cut Medicaid for those it was &ldquo;originally intended for.&rdquo; He wrote, &ldquo;Senate Republicans are trying to slow the rate of exponential cost increases for a program we all agree must survive for future generations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Democrats are relentlessly spreading misinformation about our efforts to preserve &amp; protect Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>The facts aren&#8217;t on their side. Nobody is cutting Medicaid. We&#8217;re making it sustainable for those it was originally intended for.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll explain here&#129525;:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Senator Ted Budd (@SenTedBuddNC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTedBuddNC\/status\/1939471583241818597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The way Medicare currently stands, its subsidies are projected to cost $5.4 trillion in the next decade, according to Budd. The BBB reforms will <a href=\"https:\/\/epicforamerica.org\/social-programs\/one-big-beautiful-win-to-remove-illegal-immigrants-from-medicaid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cut illegal immigrants<\/a> and require able-bodied adults <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/medicaid-undergo-significant-changes-due-big-beautiful-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to volunteer or work<\/a> to remain on the program. According to a statement the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/articles\/2025\/06\/myth-vs-fact-the-one-big-beautiful-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made<\/a>, the changes will not influence traditional recipients, like single mothers, children, or the disabled, except in strengthening their support.<\/p>\n<p>So, when Senator Chris Murray on CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WNT\/video\/gop-budget-battle-big-beautiful-bill-122401811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> that Republicans are &ldquo;cutting Medicaid &hellip; in order to fund a tax cut for the super wealthy and for corporations,&rdquo; it is nothing new. Democrats said the same things in 2017 when Trump passed tax cuts that helped the middle class and were extremely popular with Americans.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Ariel McDowell is a correspondent for The Federalist. She is studying Rhetoric and Media at Hillsdale College and is Assistant News Director at Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media fearmongers repeat 2017 tax bill warnings again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3897,"featured_media":2458248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-09-at-12.13.42-PM-1024x581.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[9222,4188,58868],"class_list":["post-2458247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-9222","tag-media","tag-recycle"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-09-at-12.13.42-PM-1024x581.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458247","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\/3897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458255,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458247\/revisions\/2458255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2458248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}