matzav .com Article RatingBiden: I Had to Use Trump-Era Funds on Wall, But Still Don't Think Barriers Help
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "It is among the busiest for border crossings in the nation." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Republicans, for their part, are hammering the president as ineffective on border policy, with some suggesting they would not fund any more efforts in Ukraine without a substantial increase to border security funding." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Biden said he tried to get lawmakers to redirect the money but Congress refused, and the law requires the funding to be used as approved and the construction to be completed in 2023." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "The Biden administration's decision to rush into border wall construction marks a profound failure, said Jonathan Blazer, director of border strategies at the American Civil Liberties Union." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "Lu00f3pez Obrador had frequently praised Biden in the past because he is the first U.S. president in a long time who has not built any walls." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Trump wrote on his social media platform." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The money was appropriated for the border wall, Biden said." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Trump's allies said the move just showed he was right." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "One of Biden's first decisions moves as president was to halt the use of emergency funds to build the wall along the Southern border and ended the national emergency there." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The decision comes as the Biden administration is struggling to manage increasing numbers of migrants at the border and spreading out in the larger U.S. Democratic leaders in New York, Chicago and Washington are asking for federal help to handle the growing numbers of migrants in their cities." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Biden said he tried to get lawmakers to redirect the money but Congress refused, and the law requires the funding to be used as approved and the construction to be completed in 2023." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "On the campaign trail, President Biden put it best when he said that the border wall is not a serious policy solution -- and we couldn't agree more." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "But the border wall has been synonymous with Trump's restrictive immigration policies." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "This isn't the first time that border wall has been constructed under the Biden administration." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "But while critics are painting the move as a stuing White House reversal and a vindication of Trump immigration policies, Biden was still looking for a way to defend and explain his decision." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Trump, the front-ruer for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, weighed in too -- saying the administration's actions proved he was right on the wall." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Instead of upholding this promise, the Biden administration is doubling down on the failed policies of the past that have proven wasteful and ineffective." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "President Joe Biden on Thursday tried to defend his administration's controversial decision to waive 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow for construction of roughly 20 miles of additional border wall, saying he had no choice but to use the Trump-era funding for the barrier to stop illegal migration from Mexico." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Will Joe Biden apologize to me and America for taking so long to get moving ..." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "The Biden administration's decision to rush into border wall construction marks a profound failure, said Jonathan Blazer, director of border strategies at the American Civil Liberties Union." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Still, the waiving of federal laws for the construction -- something also done when Republican Donald Trump was president -- raised questions, particularly because Biden condemned border wall spending when he was ruing for the White House." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Still, the waiving of federal laws for the construction -- something also done when Republican Donald Trump was president -- raised questions, particularly because Biden condemned border wall spending when he was ruing for the White House." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
51% : It is among the busiest for border crossings in the nation.45% : Republicans, for their part, are hammering the president as ineffective on border policy, with some suggesting they would not fund any more efforts in Ukraine without a substantial increase to border security funding.
43% : Biden said he tried to get lawmakers to redirect the money but Congress refused, and the law requires the funding to be used as approved and the construction to be completed in 2023.
21% : "The Biden administration's decision to rush into border wall construction marks a profound failure," said Jonathan Blazer, director of border strategies at the American Civil Liberties Union.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.