CBO: Deficits will rise to $2 trillion per year over the next decade

  • Bias Rating

    12% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    14% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

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"That's more than double the expected growth rate for spending on the military and on domestic programs like education and environmental protection..."
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20% Conservative
"By 2033, the forecasts suggest, the federal government will be spending as much on Social Security alone as it does on all discretionary spending -- military and otherwise -- combined..."
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16% Conservative
"Lawmakers could stabilize the programs by raising taxes, reducing spending or simply continuing to borrow money to keep paying full benefits."
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8% Conservative
"The new CBO numbers also point to increased spending on entitlement programs as one of the main drivers of future deficits."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Over the next decade, deficits will average $2 trillion aually, as tax receipts fail to keep pace with the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare benefits for retiring baby boomers."
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-24% Liberal
"President Biden is doing his best to rule out the third option, leaving just the other two."
Positive
16% Conservative
"A group of liberal lawmakers led by Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont, has a proposal to expand Social Security benefits and extend its solvency for 75 years through a variety of new taxes on investment and business income, along with earnings for Americans making $250,000 or more."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Biden's plan is always framed as adding more taxes to top earners (who are already paying the vast majority of federal taxes)."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"President Biden was bragging about cutting the deficit just last week during his State of the Union address."
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-24% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : That's more than double the expected growth rate for spending on the military and on domestic programs like education and environmental protection...
58% : By 2033, the forecasts suggest, the federal government will be spending as much on Social Security alone as it does on all discretionary spending -- military and otherwise -- combined...
54% : Lawmakers could stabilize the programs by raising taxes, reducing spending or simply continuing to borrow money to keep paying full benefits.
51% : The new CBO numbers also point to increased spending on entitlement programs as one of the main drivers of future deficits.
38% : Over the next decade, deficits will average $2 trillion annually, as tax receipts fail to keep pace with the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare benefits for retiring baby boomers.

*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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