Media outlets ignore national debt in coverage of massive spending bill
Fox News
Media coverage of the massive $1.7-trillion government spending bill this week has largely sidestepped the nation's more than $31-trillion national debt.
But mentions of the "national debt" were hard to find in recent weeks. Former GOP congressman David Jolly, a political analyst for MSNBC, mentioned the Trump administration's "awful record on increasing the national debt" during a discussion about the spending bill. Jolly, who now openly supports Democrats, also said House Republicans as they take the majority will not "play nicely when it comes to raising the debt limit."
According to a search of the term "national debt" on Grabien Media, there were three mentions of whether the new Congress will raise the "national debt ceiling" on CNN this month, and Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., in a separate MSNBC appearance said Democrats should try to raise the debt ceiling before Republicans take the majority, while admitting it had "obviously hasn't done anything to curtail the national debt."