Fox News misled its viewers on what Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ would mean for American energy, jobs, and manufacturing

President Donald Trump and the GOP’s sweeping domestic policy package, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” would roll back clean technology tax credits established under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act and have massive adverse impacts on energy prices and supply as well as energy sector jobs and manufacturing — all of which have been core concerns on Fox News for decades. But Fox has seemingly set aside its concerns around energy prices, supply, and jobs, and their impacts on its viewers in favor of helping Trump get the bill over the finish line. 

Those core concerns were on display as the network repeatedly attacked the Inflation Reduction Act using a variety of disingenuous narratives, including claiming that it would raise energy costs. In fact, in the first two years after the act’s passage, the network mentioned the IRA more than twice as much as CNN did and 40% more than MSNBC did, often referring to the legislation as “the Green New Deal” and “the Green New Scam.” 

But from late May, when the House version of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” passed eliminating the majority of clean energy provisions in the IRA, through June 23, discussion has been extremely limited on the network, with no segments mentioning that repealing the tax credits would raise energy prices and kill jobs.

Fox also failed to mention the artificial intelligence tech companies pushing against repealing the IRA and ignored Trump’s “quid pro quo” that led to the bill’s inclusion of a $1 billion tax break for Big Oil. 

Below are details on those misleading Fox narratives.