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| "Later still, McCarthy staffers hauled from the office a miniature canoe, filled with ice, sodas and bottles of water -- also for the benefit of reporters." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "Top leaders in both parties reached a long-sought deal on Saturday to avoid an unprecedented government default, aouncing an agreement on a plan to lift the debt ceiling for two years and apply new caps on federal spending over the same duration." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Later still, McCarthy staffers hauled from the office a miniature canoe, filled with ice, sodas and bottles of water -- also for the benefit of reporters." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), chairman of the Financial Services Committee and one of the top GOP negotiators, kept reporters updated on the birthday parties his kids were attending, and their culinary preferences." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Heading into the final round of talks in the Capitol on Saturday morning, McCarthy expressed confidence that Congress would meet that deadline." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "Several hours later, all three GOP negotiators -- McCarthy, McHenry and Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) -- left the building to pick up lunch at Chipotle." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Several hours later, all three GOP negotiators -- McCarthy, McHenry and Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) -- left the building to pick up lunch at Chipotle." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Everybody won't like what is the end of the agreement ... on both sides, McCarthy said Saturday morning." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "The challenge now facing party leaders -- not only McCarthy, but also House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) -- is in rallying enough support on both sides to cobble together a bipartisan majority and send the package to the Senate." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "The challenge now facing party leaders -- not only McCarthy, but also House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) -- is in rallying enough support on both sides to cobble together a bipartisan majority and send the package to the Senate." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "McCarthy said in brief remarks at the Capitol that there's still some work left to do, but he expects to post the legislative text on Sunday, and stage a floor vote the following Wednesday." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Still, McCarthy said he would adhere to the promise he made to conservatives in January that the House won't vote on the package until the legislative text has been finalized and posted for 72 hours to allow lawmakers the time to digest its contents." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Despite the conservative criticisms, Republicans clearly won the debate in one important sense: Unlike debt ceiling fights in the past -- when GOP leaders demanded spending cuts but conceded tax hikes to Democrats in return -- McCarthy drew a red line on new revenues early in the process, focusing the deficit reduction effort squarely on only the spending side of the budget equation in what amounts to a major victory for Republicans." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Still, the agreement marks at least a temporary victory for McCarthy, the new Speaker who has defied the odds in holding his GOP conference together on partisan messaging bills, but has yet to be tested on major, must-pass legislation that can win the backing of Democrats -- particularly with the economy on the line." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "That challenge is particularly acute for McCarthy, who struggled to win the Speakership in January in the face of conservative opposition, and has been under heavy pressure from his right flank to hold the line in the debt ceiling talks." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Under the terms of the deal, Republicans agreed to extend the government's borrowing authority for two years -- pushing the threat of default beyond the 2024 elections, as Biden had demanded, according to a source familiar with the agreement." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) took the criticisms a long step further, saying a debt ceiling increase of that size would prompt war between conservatives and leadership." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Medicaid, according to the source, would not be affected, nor would Biden's student loan relief program." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "House Republicans had passed a partisan debt ceiling bill through the lower chamber last month, which included roughly $4.8 trillion in deficit reduction and rescinded a number of Biden-era programs, including green-energy tax credits, student-loan subsidies, and $80 billion in IRS funding." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Mi.), the Republican whip, has not been directly involved in the talks." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "The impasse became so entrenched Saturday evening that President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who had no plans to speak, staged a break-the-glass phone call in an 11th-hour effort to break the stalemate." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The impasse became so entrenched Saturday evening that President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who had no plans to speak, staged a break-the-glass phone call in an 11th-hour effort to break the stalemate." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "And even before the deal was aounced, the Freedom Caucus was blasting the proposal for giving away too much to Biden." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "If [the] Speaker's negotiators bring back in substance a clean debt limit increase ... one so large that it even protects Biden from the issue in the presidential ..., it's war, Bishop tweeted." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "But it could provide McCarthy some cover as he faces a barrage of criticism from his far-right skeptics." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "The proposal still faces tall barriers to passage, particularly in the House, where conservatives wasted no time hammering the compromise as a capitulation by McCarthy to Biden -- one they say has undermined the deficit reduction goals of Republicans going into the talks." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The proposal still faces tall barriers to passage, particularly in the House, where conservatives wasted no time hammering the compromise as a capitulation by McCarthy to Biden -- one they say has undermined the deficit reduction goals of Republicans going into the talks." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The conservatives are pointing to one major point of contention: The debt ceiling hike in their legislation was capped at $1.5 trillion, while the deal McCarthy cut with Biden was expected to be nearly three times that figure." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The conservatives are pointing to one major point of contention: The debt ceiling hike in their legislation was capped at $1.5 trillion, while the deal McCarthy cut with Biden was expected to be nearly three times that figure." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Those criticisms came as no surprise: A bipartisan compromise able to win endorsements from McCarthy and Biden was always expected to alienate the ideological edges of each party." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Those criticisms came as no surprise: A bipartisan compromise able to win endorsements from McCarthy and Biden was always expected to alienate the ideological edges of each party." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "The compromise came on Day 11 of tense negotiations between McCarthy, Biden and their appointed deputies." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "The compromise came on Day 11 of tense negotiations between McCarthy, Biden and their appointed deputies." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
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62% : Later still, McCarthy staffers hauled from the office a miniature canoe, filled with ice, sodas and bottles of water -- also for the benefit of reporters.48% : Top leaders in both parties reached a long-sought deal on Saturday to avoid an unprecedented government default, announcing an agreement on a plan to lift the debt ceiling for two years and apply new caps on federal spending over the same duration.
*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.