Terry Jeffrey — the former editor of CNSNews.com, which was shut down in 2023 after his Media Research Center overlords apparently decided to stop pretending it cares about promoting anything resembling actual journalism — has resurfaced as a columnist at Newsmax. While Jeffrey has kept his syndicated columnist gig throughout the recent turbulence. His Newsmax bio is a little weird, though: It begins by declaring that he “began as editor in chief of CNSNews.com,” though it goes on to list other positions that predate his CNS tenure, and there’s no mention whatsoever of his current job, investigative editor for the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Meanwhile, Jeffrey is still peddling some odd opinions through his column. He groused in a Sept. 29 column:
Each of the 15 wealthiest congressional districts in the United States in 2024 — when measured by median household income — had at least one thing in common: They all elected Democrats to the House of Representatives.
Even as voters nationwide were electing President Donald Trump to a second term in office, he lost to then-Vice President Kamala Harris in 14 of these 15 wealthiest districts.
Jeffrey began his Oct. 16 column this way:
When Chuck Schumer first took federal office as a member of the House of Representatives in January 1981, the Monthly Statement of the Public Debt for December 1980 reported that the federal debt at the end of that year was $930.21 billion.
As of Oct. 10 of this year, according to the U.S. Treasury, it was $37.885 trillion.
During Schumer’s time in Congress — which has constitutional control over federal borrowing and spending — the federal debt has increased 40-fold.
During President Joe Biden’s term — when Schumer served as Senate majority leader — the federal debt, as this column has noted before, increased at an average rate of more than $2 trillion per year.
Jeffrey did not mention — as he is prone to avoiding — that the federal deficit increased by $8 trillion during Trump’s first term in office, and he made no mention of the Republicans who also contributed to that deficit. Meanwhile, Jeffrey made it clear that he supports closing the parts of government he personally doesn’t like:
At the White House recently, Trump told reporters his administration now intended to permanently shut parts of the government.
“So, we are closing up programs that are Democrat programs that we wanted to close up or that we never wanted to happen and now we’re closing them up and we are not going to let them come back,” Trump said.
“We are going to have a list of them on Friday,” he said.
This is the right approach to the debt problem.
Now, America needs a Congress that will embrace it.
Jeffrey went on a tirade against Nancy Pelosi in his Nov. 5 column:
After Trump took office in 2017, having campaigned on building a wall to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, Pelosi not only opposed the project but said something about it she would not have said about taking the life of a partially born baby. She declared it “immoral.”
“The Democrats do not support the wall,” she said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on April 23, 2017.
“The president, I think, talking about this wall is expressing a sign of weakness,” she said. “He’s saying, ‘I can’t control our borders. I have to build a wall.’ We certainly would like to — We have a responsibility to control our borders. Building a wall is not an answer, not here or any place.”
[…]Pelosi will be remembered as a Democratic leader who opposed some of the most positive things the federal government did during her time in office.
That’s just Jeffrey’s partisanship talking.