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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points separating the most-left and most-right scored headlines. Both the New York Times and NPR employed factual, neutral language, though they framed notably different aspects of the same policy landscape. The Times focused squarely on the proposed fee structure, using the restrained verb "propose" and citing the concrete figure of "more than $100,000," signaling an action still in process. NPR, meanwhile, shifted attention to visa revocations rather than fees, leading with the scale of potential impact — "up to 200,000 foreigners" — and characterizing the action as the "largest mass visa revocation in history." That historical framing carries somewhat more rhetorical weight, though it remains factually grounded. The two headlines are less a left-right divide than a difference in editorial emphasis: one centers policy cost, the other centers human scale.