CNSNews.com editor in chief Terry Jeffrey has long abandoned his self-declared deficit-hawk position by refusing to single out President Trump by name for his role in expanding federal deficits. He couldn’t even be bothered to complain about a massive spending bill he would have certainly squawked about if a Democrat was president.
In a Feb. 12 article, Jeffrey did his monthly piece on how “The federal government set records for both the amount of taxes it collected and the amount of money it spent in the first four months of fiscal 2020 (October through January).” As usual, the words “Trump” and “Republican” are absent, and Jeffrey threw in his favorite stock photo image of Trump and Nancy Pelosi, as if Pelosi bore equal blame for the situation even though she controls only one-half of Congress and none of he Executive Branch.
Jeffrey repeated the pattern in a March 11 article: rewriting the first paragraph to add February, no mention of Trump or Republicans, another misleading stock photo of Trump and Pelosi.
It’s almost as if Jeffrey is afraid to admit that these growing federal deficits he so vociferously loathed when Barack Obama was president are occurring under a Republican, since doing so would run counter to his “news” operation’s even more vociferous pro-Trump editorial agenda.