The Tribune Article RatingHow the White House got involved in the border talks on Capitol Hill - with Ukraine aid at stake - Seymour Tribune
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| "Another major reason why the White House and senior administration officials have gotten so directly involved is the sheer complexity of immigration law and the Department of Homeland Security's central role in implementing any restrictions that Congress will write." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The stakes of the negotiations -- being held in a room on the second floor of the Capitol, near Schumer's suite of offices -- are enormous for the White House and for Biden's foreign policy legacy." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "The stakes of the negotiations -- being held in a room on the second floor of the Capitol, near Schumer's suite of offices -- are enormous for the White House and for Biden's foreign policy legacy." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Mayorkas has been a consistent presence in the negotiations, along with White House legislative affairs director Shuwanza Goff and Natalie Quillian, a White House deputy chief of staff who has taken immigration under her portfolio." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "So when Zients dialed Durbin one weekend this month for a temperature check on the ongoing border talks, the senator was candid." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "President Joe Biden's top aide signaled the White House felt the same way, stressing to Durbin that we have to engage with the Republicans and see if there's some middle ground, according to the senator's retelling." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "President Joe Biden's top aide signaled the White House felt the same way, stressing to Durbin that we have to engage with the Republicans and see if there's some middle ground, according to the senator's retelling." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Though administration officials had been aware of what was being discussed, they deferred to the senators leading the talks -- Lankford, Sinema and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Co.That dynamic changed this month." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Though administration officials had been aware of what was being discussed, they deferred to the senators leading the talks -- Lankford, Sinema and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Co.That dynamic changed this month." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "It's a level of engagement that has heartened Republicans who had pushed for Biden to get more involved." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "And the White House chief of staff has been talking regularly with Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, the chief GOP negotiator." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Outside of the negotiating room, Zients has talked regularly with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and the other negotiators." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "I told him I thought the current situation is unsustainable, and the Democrats need to be part of the solution, Durbin said." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, along with senior officials from the White House and the Department of Homeland Security, have spent hours behind closed doors haggling over the intricacies of immigration policy alongside senators trying to reach a border deal." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "A deal to provide further U.S. assistance to Ukraine by year-end appears to be increasingly out of reach for President Joe Biden." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Once it became clear congressional Republicans would demand policy extractions in exchange for releasing billions in additional aid for Ukraine, the White House intentionally hung back from the negotiations -- replicating its past strategy of letting the legislators legislate, which had led to several of Biden's priorities becoming law." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Having Biden's senior aides actively participate in the talks sends a message -- particularly to wary Democratic lawmakers -- that the president is willing to cut a border deal that could make some in his own party uncomfortable." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "We can't finalize any kind of agreement until the White House is actually engaged, said Lankford, who stressed that having Biden's aides in the room has been helpful." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "We can't finalize any kind of agreement until the White House is actually engaged, said Lankford, who stressed that having Biden's aides in the room has been helpful." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "And any deal that is reached on the border could also help address one major political liability for Biden as he gears up for his reelection, particularly if the increased involvement by the White House helps the public see the president as someone seeking a solution to the rising border numbers." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Zients and Mayorkas spoke with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Saturday, during which several Democrats raised concerns about the ongoing border talks." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "That conversation between Zients and Durbin is just one of the several calls that the White House chief of staff has been making to key lawmakers in recent days, underscoring how top Biden administration officials have considerably ramped up their involvement with Capitol Hill as the fate of Biden's emergency spending request for Ukraine remains in the balance." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "That conversation between Zients and Durbin is just one of the several calls that the White House chief of staff has been making to key lawmakers in recent days, underscoring how top Biden administration officials have considerably ramped up their involvement with Capitol Hill as the fate of Biden's emergency spending request for Ukraine remains in the balance." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "That conversation between Zients and Durbin is just one of the several calls that the White House chief of staff has been making to key lawmakers in recent days, underscoring how top Biden administration officials have considerably ramped up their involvement with Capitol Hill as the fate of Biden's emergency spending request for Ukraine remains in the balance." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Zients himself dropped by one of those meetings at the Capitol last week, reiterating to the negotiators Biden's plea to find a solution." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "I think there's this view sometimes because a lot of senators become president, that you could just have the White House and the Senate come up with a deal and somehow jam the House, said Rep. Ro Khaa, D-Calif., a leading progressive, on Fox News Sunday." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat, had signed onto a statement denouncing reports of harmful changes to our asylum system that were being proposed as part of a border deal on Capitol Hill." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Yet other Democrats and immigrant-rights advocates have been concerned that Biden's desperation for Ukraine aid would cause the White House to accept hardline policies restricting avenues for asylum that it would otherwise not support." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Biden and White House aides have repeatedly warned, in dire terms, about the consequences of letting Ukraine funding run dry." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
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49% : "Another major reason why the White House and senior administration officials have gotten so directly involved is the sheer complexity of immigration law and the Department of Homeland Security's central role in implementing any restrictions that Congress will write.*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.