Project 2025 would roll back protections for overtime pay — a longtime right-wing media priority
Media Matters has documented right-wing media complaints against overtime pay for over a decade.
In 2014, in response to President Barack Obama’s move to raise the salary threshold for overtime eligibility, a Fox News anchor claimed that overtime pay creates a “disincentive to stand out” at work and amounts to “forced income redistribution.”
Bill O’Reilly railed against the proposal during his prime-time show on Fox News, claiming the move might hurt workers.
The Wall Street Journal editorial page similarly complained that workers who want to get ahead would be told they “can’t work long hours.”
