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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform, with most outlets adopting wire-style neutral language. Newsweek, CNBC, and Yahoo Finance all led with straightforward, factual constructions — using verbs like "issues" and "refunds" — with no detectable ideological loading. The only modest departure came from CNN, whose headline "Corporate America got billions of dollars in tariff refunds. Where's your cut?" introduced a mildly populist framing absent from the other coverage. The phrase "Where's your cut?" implies that ordinary people were left out of a windfall directed at corporations, lending the story a tone of grievance that the other outlets avoided. Notably, Yahoo Finance asked a similar consumer-focused question — "will you get a payout?" — but without CNN's implied unfairness. With a bias spread of just 1.0 point, the difference across outlets is narrow, amounting less to ideological contrast than to a single outlet choosing a more rhetorically charged angle.