'Forced American taxpayers to subsidize expensive and unreliable energy'

Monday's Final Word

On Sunday, ABC featured a Democrat citing an estimate from the "Yale Policy Lab" that Trump's "big beautiful bill" would kill 100,000 people over ten years. Last week, NBC promoted a report claiming 14 million people would die from Trump's cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development. Reporters hinted that adorable little girls drowned in a Texas flood because of Trump's cuts to the National Weather Service. But the media claim they are "fact-based." When news is breaking on a tragic natural disaster, there is great uncertainty in the first few days on how government performed in life-and-death matters. It should be a time for sensitivity, neutrality, and humility. It should not be a time where liberal journalists quickly start ginning up a conspiracy theory that DOGE-squad cuts in government may have led to little girls dying needlessly. ABC's George Stephanopoulos warned of "significant staffing shortfalls to the National Weather Service’s offices in the region." CNN's Dana Bash claimed the local Weather Service in Texas "are missing some key staff members. A director of the NWS union told CNN that the Austin, San Antonio, office is missing a warning coordination meteorologist due to the Trump administration's buyouts." She wondered if that "played a role" in the deaths. Last October, close to the election, Bash fiercely defended the Biden-Harris response to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, and now she's attacking Trump over these Texas flash floods. You can either call that wildly inconsistent, or you can call it perfectly consistent, that she lines up with the Democrats after every scary weather event. It’s just sad that every disaster threatens to devolve into a squabble over which politicians are guilty of manslaughter. I’d at least want to wait a week or two or three for congressional hearings or something. To pounce on this, to seize on it, in the first few days, it’s just gross. Earlier, after both houses of Congress passed the same version of Trump's "big beautiful bill," Democrats took to their fundraising emails and suggested the Republicans were creating a "dark and deadly moment" when food would be ripped out of the mouths of children. Nancy Pelosi called it "sinful." Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts. 

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President Donald Trump signs the Big Beautiful Bill Act at the White House in Washington on July 4, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesCalifornians are about to get some tax relief.The…