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This is unfortunately the most common form of intellectual dishonesty in newspapers. I would be curious to know the actual stats of what % of visitors read the headline, the subheadline, first paragraph, and last paragraph. I would bet something like 100%, 60%, 30%, 5%. So the favorite way for journalists to lie is to bury deep in the article the facts that contradict or mitigate the headline, so the article technically has the facts somewhere, but the vast majority of readers will be misled nevertheless.

Literally in the second paragraph:

> oppose the proposed $3.5tn budget bill put forward by Democrats

That makes it pretty clear to me that it's a $3.5TN budget bill. Also, that sentence is a link, so it's underlined. Difficult to miss.

I think the key part of the parent post is "very much full of other non-climate proposals", not the 3.5 number.

The title of the piece leaves little room for nuance.

This has to be one of the most reprehensible pieces of flat-out propaganda I’ve seen from The Guardian.