It appears that ABC World News Tonight is fighting hard to reclaim the mantle as America’s most nakedly partisan legacy evening newscast. Another wildly biased shutdown item from correspondent Rachel Scott does little to inform viewers but everything to inflame them.
Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on ABC’s World News Tonight on Tuesday, October 14th, 2025:
DAVID MUIR: Meantime, back here in the U.S. tonight, the government shutdown now day 14. Federal workers fired and now with millions of government employees going unpaid, President Trump has announced a $20 billion bailout for Argentina. Democrats tonight blasting the move saying U.S. taxpayers are now paying for this. Rachel Scott at The White House for us.
RACHEL SCOTT: Tonight with the government shutdown stretching into Day 14, and with millions of federal workers going unpaid, President Trump welcoming his political ally, Argentina's president Javier Milei, to The White House to announce a $20 billion bailout for his country.
DONALD TRUMP: Argentina's one of the most beautiful countries that I've ever seen and we want to see it succeed. Very simple.
SCOTT: The economic lifeline comes just a month before Argentina's crucial midterm election, the president making it clear his support depends on the outcome.
TRUMP: If he wins, we're staying with him and if he doesn't win, we're gone.
SCOTT: Democrats seizing on the move, accusing the president of using taxpayer dollars to help another country while the U.S. government is shutdown.
CHUCK SCHUMER: The overwhelming majority of Americans say “we need help with our healthcare,” and they're busy spending $20 billion because Trump seems to really like the leader of Argentina.
SCOTT: Democrats say they won't agree to fund the government unless Republicans extend Obamacare subsidies so insurance costs don't rise for millions. The White House already firing more than 4,000 federal workers, threatening to lay off even more, and dismantle programs important to Democrats.
TRUMP: We're not closing up Republican programs because we think they work. (VIDEO SWIPE) So we are closing up Democrat programs that we think we disagree with and they're never going to open again.
SCOTT: At Washington Reagan airport today, air traffic controllers are sounding the alarm. Peter LeFevre has been an air traffic controller for nearly 16 years.
PETER LeFEVRE: Not knowing exactly how I'm going to have childcare for my kids, or put gas in the car or pay the next mortgage payment adds a certain level of stress on to an already stressful profession. It's just very difficult.
SCOTT: David, tonight the Defense Department says it will be redirecting about $8 billion in funds to make sure our military troops do not miss a paycheck tomorrow, but millions of other federal workers still going without pay as the shutdown drags on, David.
MUIR: And Members of Congress still getting paid, of course, as you’ve pointed out often, Rachel. Thank you.
What we have here is another ludicrous Democrat-coded report on the shutdown. This one is premised on the idea that the President of the United States is somehow unable to conduct foreign policy while the federal government is in the throes of a shutdown.
Argentina’s currency took a nosedive after the Peronist candidate won Buenos Aires’ recent provincial election, which is separate from the upcoming legislative midterm. The $20 billion debt swap amounts to a loan designed to stabilize the Argentinian peso as it recovers from that market tumble. The swap is wholly consistent with the Trump administration’s hemispheric policy- an American investment in a region long abandoned to Cuba, Russia, Iran and China.
None of this is mentioned in this item clearly intended to infuriate viewers, hence the repetition of Democrat talking points on Obamacare. In service of this narrative you saw Chuck Schumer, and you had Scott trot out an air traffic controller.
Never do you hear throughout this item that there is already in place a House-passed clean continuing resolution that needs only a handful of Democrat votes to pass the Senate. Never do you hear an appeal to bipartisanship and/or putting country over party. There is only liberal agitprop masquerading as news.