Topic: CNSNews.com
As we've documented, CNSNews.com editor in chief Terry Jeffrey showed little interest in calling out President Trump for the federal deficits he was racking up -- but when President Biden took office, he suddenly became a more aggressive deficit hawk. The hypocrisy has contined.
On May 28, Jeffrey used all the zeroes he could find (in violation of AP Stylebook rules on writing out numbers) to attack Biden's budget proposal:
The budget proposal that President Joe Biden released today calls for the federal government to run a cumulative deficit of $14.53 trillion ($14,531,000,000,000) over the next ten years.
Under Biden’s proposal, the lowest the deficit would ever go in the next decade is in 2027, when it would hit $1,303,000,000,000.
The proposal says that it aims to reduce deficits starting a decade from now—rather than in the next ten years.
Biden, who is 78 years old, could serve as long as eight years as president--if he is elected to a second term.
Jeffrey recycled his attack on Biden's budget in his June 2 column, right down to irrelevantly emphasizing Biden's age:
Americans, President Joe Biden's budget proposal suggests, should not worry that he plans to significantly increase federal deficits over the next eight years.
Why? Because he intends to begin reducing them — but not eliminating them — nine years from now.Of course, even if the now 78-year-old Biden were to run for reelection in 2024 and win the presidency again, he would be out of office in nine years.
Neither Jeffrey piece mentioned Trump, who ran up trillions of dollars in deficits during his presidency.
On June 10, Jeffrey served up his monthly lament about federal spending:
The federal government set new records in the taxes it collected, the spending it engaged in and the deficit it ran through the first eight months of fiscal 2021 (October through May), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement.
Federal taxes hit a record $2,606,879,000,000 while federal spending climbed to $4,670,668,000,000, resulting in a federal deficit of $2,063,789,000,000.
If you'll recall, those monthly laments during the Trump administration sought to lay equal blame on Democrats and Republicans alike by including Democrats in the stock photo accompanying the article, even though Republicans controlled the presidency and Senate and Democrats controlled only the House. This time, the photo is of Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
