GOP Hardliners Unhappy as Defense Bill Passes

  • Bias Rating

    8% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    66% 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

31% Positive

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"It is likely the last piece of major legislation Congress will consider before leaving for the holiday break, though negotiations continue on a bill to aid Ukraine and Israel and boost border security."
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-6% Liberal
"The measure does not include language sought by House Republicans to restrict gender-affirming health care for transgender service members, and it does not block the Pentagon's abortion travel policy, which allows reimbursement for travel expenses when a service member has to go out of state for an abortion."
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-8% Liberal
"The $886 billion bill was approved by a vote of 310-118 and now goes to President Biden after the Senate had overwhelmingly passed it Wednesday, per the AP."
Positive
6% Conservative
"You compromise and you work with people and you do it all the time, Smith said."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"You almost feel like a parent who's sent a child off to summer camp and they came back a monster, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said in opposing the bill."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Washington Rep. Adam Smith, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, chided the bill's critics for what he described as an unwillingness to compromise."
Negative
-36% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : It is likely the last piece of major legislation Congress will consider before leaving for the holiday break, though negotiations continue on a bill to aid Ukraine and Israel and boost border security.
46% : The measure does not include language sought by House Republicans to restrict gender-affirming health care for transgender service members, and it does not block the Pentagon's abortion travel policy, which allows reimbursement for travel expenses when a service member has to go out of state for an abortion.

*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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