Biden signs spending package that averts a government shutdown

Mar 09, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -38% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    25% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    66% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

4% Positive

  •   Liberal
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"The second package, which must be completed by the end of the month, includes: Defense, Financial Services and General Government, Homeland Security, Labor-HHS, Legislative Branch, and State and Foreign Operations."
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-10% Liberal
"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., hailed the step as progress."
Positive
24% Conservative
"President Biden signed the bills on Saturday, marking the first step in achieving a major goal for this Congress: overcoming entrenched dysfunction to complete the fundamental of funding the government."
Positive
14% Conservative
"To folks who worry that divided government means nothing ever gets done, this bipartisan package says otherwise, Schumer said on the Senate floor ahead of the vote."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Paul and his allies eventually relented -- narrowly avoiding a repeat of a brief 2018 shutdown that came under similar circumstances."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"The bill's opponents -- including Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Mike Lee, R-Utah -- flirted with forcing an hours-long shutdown."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"The bill's opponents -- including Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Mike Lee, R-Utah -- flirted with forcing an hours-long shutdown."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Paul, Lee and the other detractors did not have enough votes to pass the amendments or block the bill -- but they did have the power to delay proceedings long enough to allow a brief funding lapse."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"Paul, Lee and the other detractors did not have enough votes to pass the amendments or block the bill -- but they did have the power to delay proceedings long enough to allow a brief funding lapse."
Negative
-46% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : The second package, which must be completed by the end of the month, includes: Defense, Financial Services and General Government, Homeland Security, Labor-HHS, Legislative Branch, and State and Foreign Operations.

*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.

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