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Fox's Pro-Trump Message Gets Fact-Checked by Elon Musk's X
Fox's Pro-Trump Message Gets Fact-Checked by Elon Musk's X

Yahoo

time40 minutes ago

  • Business
  • Yahoo

Fox's Pro-Trump Message Gets Fact-Checked by Elon Musk's X

Fox Business Network tried to amplify President Trump's claims that the U.S. had recorded $150 billion in tariff revenue—but it forgot to mention who pays the cost. The Fox News sister channel's X account posted a fawning post on Tuesday that noted Trump had 'hit a record high in tariff revenue, collecting a staggering $150 billion from foreign countries since implementing the policy.' It also said the July total was $28 billion, 'highlighting the unprecedented impact of his trade agenda.' But X users were quick to affix a community note, which allows readers to provide additional context to posts, explaining who actually paid the tariff costs. 'The $150 billion was collected from American businesses and consumers, not foreign countries,' it read, citing a Tax Foundation article that explained how U.S. businesses pay the cost to the federal government through taxes. Hours later, the note no longer appeared below the Fox Business tweet. 'No, we did not collect 'a staggering $150 billion from foreign countries,' we collected it from American consumers,' read one typical quote tweet on the post from conservative columnist David Harsanyi. Fox News did not respond to an immediate request for comment. The Fox Business story on the revenue did note that U.S. consumers could face higher prices from Trump's tariffs. Trump imposed new 25% tariffs on India on Wednesday. Solve the daily Crossword

Donald Trump rips 'luxury hotels' for migrants while US citizens are 'living from hand to mouth'
Donald Trump rips 'luxury hotels' for migrants while US citizens are 'living from hand to mouth'

Sky News AU

timean hour ago

  • Politics
  • Sky News AU

Donald Trump rips 'luxury hotels' for migrants while US citizens are 'living from hand to mouth'

President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized spending taxpayer money to house migrants in "luxury hotels" while others continue to struggle to afford necessities. Trump was traveling back to the United States after a four-day trip to Scotland when he was asked about mass migration to the United Kingdom. A reporter pointed out that many in the U.K. have taken issue with housing migrants in hotels at the expense of taxpayers while their asylum claims are being processed and asked whether Britain needs its own "Alligator Alcatraz." It was a reference to Florida's illegal immigrant detention center on a 30-square-mile property in the Everglades' swamplands. "They're putting people in luxury hotels and other people that are working their a---- off are living from hand to mouth. They're not living the same way," Trump said aboard Air Force One. "I've looked at some of the hotels they're using." Trump noted that illegal immigrants in some parts of the U.S. have also been housed in hotels. "They put them in like the best hotels anywhere in the world," he said. "Thousands of dollars a night, and other people are living out in the streets, including our veterans. They can't get a room. "There are pictures of our veterans staying right by the door where they're walking in to live, and the veterans are sitting out in the sidewalk in front of a fancy hotel. And the illegals are coming into that hotel and staying for a week," he added. "That's no good." In 2023, Fox News reported that claims that homeless veterans were displaced at hotels in upstate New York were false. However, that same year in Massachusetts, military families who booked rooms in Foxboro, Massachusetts, the site of the 124th Army-Navy football Game at Gillette Stadium, received cancellation notices from hotels that were being used by the state to house migrants. In June, the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, which served as one of the main migrant shelters in the city, closed its doors. The converted site, which has around 1,000 rooms, processed more than 173,000 migrants since its opening in May 2023, the city said. The hotel was linked to gang activity, and the Justice Department in May launched a probe into the Roosevelt, which is owned by the government of Pakistan, and the Stewart Hotel, which was also transformed into a migrant shelter. New York City taxpayers have forked out billions of dollars to pay for housing for more than 232,000 migrants who have arrived in the city since the spring of 2022. Originally published as Donald Trump rips 'luxury hotels' for migrants while US citizens are 'living from hand to mouth'

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