NBC Omits Popular Deductions Staying in GOP Tax Bill, Parrots Dems

Nicholas Fondacaro | December 14, 2017
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Congressional Republicans were one step closer to realizing their hopes for tax reform on Thursday as it appeared as though the House and Senate had reconciled nearly all of the legislation. Hearing the recommendations and concerns of the public, the Republicans preserved the current tax code’s deductions for student loans, medical bills, and added a $10,000 cap for state and local taxes. But of the three major network news outlets, NBC was the only one that left them out of their evening broadcast.

Instead of reporting what was known to be in the GOP tax reform bill, NBC Nightly News instead chose to run two reports that played up the GOP “scrambling” to get votes and blatantly pasted off Democratic Party talking points as facts.

After stoking the unnecessary fears the repeal of net neutrality and hyping the firing/resignation of White House staffer Omarosa Manigault, NBC’s Kasie Hunt was playing up how hard a time the GOP leadership was having wrangling votes together:

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