The Epoch Times Article RatingHouse Advances 4 Spending Bills as McCarthy Vows Funding Stopgap to Avert Shutdown
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| "He then chided the Republican minority for waiting so long to take action on the 2024 spending plan." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "Speaker McCarthy united his caucus in considering four appropriations bills, which he hopes to leverage in passing a CR laced with border security measures." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Moments after the Sept. 26 vote, Mr. McCarthy said he would bring a continuing resolution (CR) to the House floor by the end of the week to temporarily extend government funding as the budgeting and appropriations process continues." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "We have four bills before us here in the House of Representatives, four bills that, when combined with the [Military Construction and Veterans Affairs] bill that we passed in July, would fund upward of 75 percent of our discretionary spending of government, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said when debating the bill on the House floor." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "The bills put forward for debate were the Department of Homeland Security at $91.5 billion, the Department of State at $52.5 billion, the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration at $25.3 billion, and the Department of Defense at $886.3 billion." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The measure would fund the government through Oct. 31 but impose an overall 8 percent cut in non-defense discretionary spending." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Mr. McGovern said." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "We have four bills before us here in the House of Representatives, four bills that, when combined with the [Military Construction and Veterans Affairs] bill that we passed in July, would fund upward of 75 percent of our discretionary spending of government, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said when debating the bill on the House floor." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "We should take it, said Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.)." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "We had a deal, said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (R-N.Y.), referring to the Fiscal Responsibility Act passed in June with bipartisan support." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "In fact, according to USDA, every dollar spent on WIC means $3 in taxpayers' savings, Mr. McGovern said.Democrats also saw the proposals as negotiating in bad faith on the part of Republicans." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Though Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCoell (R-Ky.) approved of the Senate's bill, Mr. McCarthy called that provision wrong.They're picking Ukraine over Americans, Mr. McCarthy said, pointing to a string of recent emergencies including the wildfire in Hawaii, train derailments, and the border crisis." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "President Joe Biden had requested that Congress approve a supplemental funding request for both items but in much higher amounts -- $45 billion for Ukraine and $12 billion for disaster relief." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
61% : He then chided the Republican minority for waiting so long to take action on the 2024 spending plan.55% : Speaker McCarthy united his caucus in considering four appropriations bills, which he hopes to leverage in passing a CR laced with border security measures.
55% : Moments after the Sept. 26 vote, Mr. McCarthy said he would bring a continuing resolution (CR) to the House floor by the end of the week to temporarily extend government funding as the budgeting and appropriations process continues.
52% : "We have four bills before us here in the House of Representatives, four bills that, when combined with the [Military Construction and Veterans Affairs] bill that we passed in July, would fund upward of 75 percent of our discretionary spending of government," Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said when debating the bill on the House floor.
51% : The bills put forward for debate were the Department of Homeland Security at $91.5 billion, the Department of State at $52.5 billion, the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration at $25.3 billion, and the Department of Defense at $886.3 billion.
51% : The measure would fund the government through Oct. 31 but impose an overall 8 percent cut in non-defense discretionary spending.
*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.