Johnson Gets One Last Chance to Avoid Government Shutdown

  • Bias Rating

    -58% Very Liberal

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    N/A

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

5% Positive

  •   Liberal
  •   Conservative
SentenceSentimentBias
"They will not, of course, include the kind of anti-abortion or anti-Biden policy riders that hard-core conservatives have been demanding."
Positive
20% Conservative
"In the absence of their policy hobbyhorses, what Freedom Caucus members want is spending cuts, and they have a plan to secure them, as The Hill reported last week:The House Freedom Caucus pressed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to put forward a yearlong stopgap funding bill, which would trigger automatic cuts to government spending, if he can't win concessions on controversial conservative policy riders ..."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"It's possible Donald Trump will intervene and either support Johnson or demand that he bend to his right-wing critics."
Negative
-66% Liberal
"McCarthy's method, Roy said, largely worked."
Positive
36% Conservative
"McCarthy's method, Roy said, largely worked."
Positive
36% Conservative
"The unkickable can may arrive when Johnson brings full appropriations bills negotiated with Democrats to the House floor begiing next week."
Positive
14% Conservative
"Yes, House Freedom Caucus types like Johnson more than they liked McCarthy."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Yes, House Freedom Caucus types like Johnson more than they liked McCarthy."
Positive
10% Conservative
"In the absence of their policy hobbyhorses, what Freedom Caucus members want is spending cuts, and they have a plan to secure them, as The Hill reported last week:The House Freedom Caucus pressed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to put forward a yearlong stopgap funding bill, which would trigger automatic cuts to government spending, if he can't win concessions on controversial conservative policy riders ..."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Under a budget caps deal brokered between President Biden and then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) last year, lawmakers agreed to set new spending limits to adhere to for fiscal 2024, as well as a penalty for automatic cuts that could take effect in April if Congress didn't finish its funding work on time."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Under a budget caps deal brokered between President Biden and then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) last year, lawmakers agreed to set new spending limits to adhere to for fiscal 2024, as well as a penalty for automatic cuts that could take effect in April if Congress didn't finish its funding work on time."
Positive
0% Conservative
"When it comes to Johnson's leadership, however, Roy said he's largely failed to lay out a plan and stick to it."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"When it comes to Johnson's leadership, however, Roy said he's largely failed to lay out a plan and stick to it."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"A fourth fiscal year 2024 stopgap spending measure passed by a comfortable 320-99 margin, giving congressional negotiators a bit more time to work out the details of appropriations bills, in accordance with a deal House Speaker Mike Johnson struck with Democrats in the Senate and the White House."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Johnson has given himself one last length of rope in cutting an appropriations deal with the hated opposition and getting the House to give him time to bring the fruits of his negotiations to the floor."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"But embedded in that 320-99 vote is a sign that this may be Johnson's last opportunity to kick the can down the road before the inevitable confrontation with conservative hard-liners in his conference flares up into a real revolt."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Democrats won't abide them, and they control two-thirds of the policymaking apparatus; Johnson, moreover, may need at least some of them in the House to beat back a revolt."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"It is gospel in the House GOP that if more than half of its members are opposed to major legislation, it should not proceed; relying mostly on Democrats is precisely the sin that got Speaker Kevin McCarthy thrown out last year."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Roy told The Daily Beast earlier this week that, while he disagreed sharply with [Kevin] McCarthy's handling of a debt ceiling deal, he credited the former speaker for working with a large number of members across the spectrum."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"Roy told The Daily Beast earlier this week that, while he disagreed sharply with [Kevin] McCarthy's handling of a debt ceiling deal, he credited the former speaker for working with a large number of members across the spectrum."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"Either Congress is going to pass appropriations bills as Johnson and the Democrats want, or they're going to let those across-the-board cuts happen with or without a nasty little government shutdown in the interim."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"Lightning rod Chip Roy called the latest stopgap deplorable, as the Daily Beast reported:Kicking the can down the road, Roy told The Daily Beast, a two-week CR at Nancy Pelosi spending levels, no policy changes -- it's just more of the same."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Lightning rod Chip Roy called the latest stopgap deplorable, as the Daily Beast reported:Kicking the can down the road, Roy told The Daily Beast, a two-week CR at Nancy Pelosi spending levels, no policy changes -- it's just more of the same."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Lightning rod Chip Roy called the latest stopgap deplorable, as the Daily Beast reported:Kicking the can down the road, Roy told The Daily Beast, a two-week CR at Nancy Pelosi spending levels, no policy changes -- it's just more of the same."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"If they get a majority of House Republicans to agree with them, then Johnson might risk exactly the same fate as McCarthy if he side-steps them and lets Democrats pass these spending bills over the objections of his conservative allies."
Negative
-54% Liberal
"If they get a majority of House Republicans to agree with them, then Johnson might risk exactly the same fate as McCarthy if he side-steps them and lets Democrats pass these spending bills over the objections of his conservative allies."
Negative
-54% Liberal
"It's possible Donald Trump will intervene and either support Johnson or demand that he bend to his right-wing critics."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"It's possible Donald Trump will intervene and either support Johnson or demand that he bend to his right-wing critics."
Negative
-46% Liberal

Bias Meter

Extremely
Liberal

Very
Liberal

Moderately
Liberal

Somewhat Liberal

Center

Somewhat Conservative

Moderately
Conservative

Very
Conservative

Extremely
Conservative

-100%
Liberal

100%
Conservative

Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : They will not, of course, include the kind of anti-abortion or anti-Biden policy riders that hard-core conservatives have been demanding.
47% : In the absence of their policy hobbyhorses, what Freedom Caucus members want is spending cuts, and they have a plan to secure them, as The Hill reported last week:The House Freedom Caucus pressed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to put forward a yearlong stopgap funding bill, which would trigger automatic cuts to government spending, if he can't win concessions on controversial conservative policy riders ...
17% : It's possible Donald Trump will intervene and either support Johnson or demand that he bend to his right-wing critics.

*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.

Copy link