FOX 5 Atlanta Article RatingKevin McCarthy juggles a government shutdown, Biden impeachment inquiry as House returns for fall
Sep 12, 2023 View Original Article
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| "Watching from the Senate, which has been working to pass all 12 of the regular bills needed to fund government operations, Republicans hope cooler heads in the House will prevail on all fronts." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "But Trump's allies among House Republicans are working furiously to unearth any links between Biden and his son's business as they portray Hunter Biden as trading on the family name for financial enrichment and work to erode public support for the president ahead of the presidential election." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "He gave no new timetable for action." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "The conservatives want to beef up border security and address what Republicans deride as the weaponization of the Justice Department's prosecutions, including of those charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Even a stopgap measure to simply keep government funding at existing levels for a few months while Congress tries to finish the spending bills is a nonstarter for McCarthy's right flank." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski said those who don't think a federal shutdown of government operations is a big deal ought to visit her state of Alaska and see real life." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Facing a backlash from conservatives who want to slash government funding, McCarthy may be able to ease the way by turning to another hard-right priority, launching a Biden impeachment inquiry over the business dealings of the president's son, Hunter Biden." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "WASHINGTON - House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is a man who stays in motion -- enthusiastically greeting tourists at the Capitol, dashing overseas to the G7 summit of industrial world leaders, and raising funds back home to elect fellow Republicans to the House majority." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Here's what you need to knowThat threat of an abrupt ouster hovers over McCarthy's every move, especially now." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "But Trump's allies among House Republicans are working furiously to unearth any links between Biden and his son's business as they portray Hunter Biden as trading on the family name for financial enrichment and work to erode public support for the president ahead of the presidential election." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "But Trump's allies among House Republicans are working furiously to unearth any links between Biden and his son's business as they portray Hunter Biden as trading on the family name for financial enrichment and work to erode public support for the president ahead of the presidential election." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Congress has been here before, as has McCarthy in his nearly two decades in office, but the stakes are ever higher, with Republicans powered by an increasingly hard-right faction that is refusing to allow business as usual in Washington." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "For McCarthy, ruing the two tracks -- a government funding process alongside an impeachment drive -- is an unusual and politically fraught undertaking." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "He's being squeezed, Brad Woodhouse, a veteran Democratic operative, said of McCarthy." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "We need a SPEAKER not a GREETER, Gaetz said on social media." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "But beneath the whirlwind of activity is a stubborn standstill, an imbalance of power between the far-right Republicans who hoisted McCarthy to the speaker's role yet threaten his own ability to lead the House." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "With former President Donald Trump's backing, McCarthy's right flank pushed him into the speaker's office at the start of the year only after he agreed to a long list of conservative demands -- including the ability to call a quick vote to vacate the chair and remove him from office." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "With former President Donald Trump's backing, McCarthy's right flank pushed him into the speaker's office at the start of the year only after he agreed to a long list of conservative demands -- including the ability to call a quick vote to vacate the chair and remove him from office." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "McCarthy and his team are pitching lawmakers on a stopgap funding bill, through Nov. 1, to keep the government ruing under a 30-day continuing resolution, or CR, according to a leadership aide granted anonymity to discuss the private talks." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "With command of dozens of votes, the hard right can deny McCarthy the support he needs to pass a Republican bill on its own." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Meanwhile, what should have been a fairly prescribed process to fund the government after McCarthy and Biden negotiated a more than $1 trillion deal earlier this summer over the debt limit appears to be falling apart." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Meanwhile, what should have been a fairly prescribed process to fund the government after McCarthy and Biden negotiated a more than $1 trillion deal earlier this summer over the debt limit appears to be falling apart." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "McCarthy has vowed there won't be any blank check for Ukraine as he works to appease skeptical Republicans who want to end U.S. involvement in overseas affairs, particularly involving Russia." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "It's a political standoff that will be tested anew as the House returns this week from a long summer recess and McCarthy faces a collision course of difficult challenges -- seeking to avoid a government shutdown, support Ukraine in the war and launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.RELATED: Congress returns to avoid government shutdown while Republicans weigh an impeachment inquiryThey've got some really heavy lifting ahead, said the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, John Thune, of South Dakota.McCarthy, of California, is going to have his hands full trying to figure out how to navigate and execute, he said." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "It's a political standoff that will be tested anew as the House returns this week from a long summer recess and McCarthy faces a collision course of difficult challenges -- seeking to avoid a government shutdown, support Ukraine in the war and launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.RELATED: Congress returns to avoid government shutdown while Republicans weigh an impeachment inquiryThey've got some really heavy lifting ahead, said the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, John Thune, of South Dakota.McCarthy, of California, is going to have his hands full trying to figure out how to navigate and execute, he said." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "It's a political standoff that will be tested anew as the House returns this week from a long summer recess and McCarthy faces a collision course of difficult challenges -- seeking to avoid a government shutdown, support Ukraine in the war and launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.RELATED: Congress returns to avoid government shutdown while Republicans weigh an impeachment inquiryThey've got some really heavy lifting ahead, said the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, John Thune, of South Dakota.McCarthy, of California, is going to have his hands full trying to figure out how to navigate and execute, he said." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "It's a political standoff that will be tested anew as the House returns this week from a long summer recess and McCarthy faces a collision course of difficult challenges -- seeking to avoid a government shutdown, support Ukraine in the war and launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.RELATED: Congress returns to avoid government shutdown while Republicans weigh an impeachment inquiryThey've got some really heavy lifting ahead, said the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, John Thune, of South Dakota.McCarthy, of California, is going to have his hands full trying to figure out how to navigate and execute, he said." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Even a stopgap measure to simply keep government funding at existing levels for a few months while Congress tries to finish the spending bills is a nonstarter for McCarthy's right flank." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "But relying on Democrats for votes would bring other problems for McCarthy if he is seen as disloyal to his ranks." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "We can waste our time on issues that are not important, or we can focus on issues that are, Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., said Sunday on MSNBC's Inside with Jen Psaki." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "We've got a lot of work to do, McCarthy told reporters late Monday at the Capitol, brushing off calls for his removal." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "During a previous government shutdown, Murkowski said crab fishermen couldn't get out in the water because federal permits could not be issued." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The White House has said Biden is not involved in his son's business dealings." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "McCarthy has signaled an impeachment inquiry is coming." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Woodhouse is now a senior adviser to the Congressional Integrity Project, which is preparing to criticize Republicans over the Biden impeachment." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "While the shutdown is the more pressing problem for McCarthy, the Biden impeachment inquiry is his bigger political gamble." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "While the shutdown is the more pressing problem for McCarthy, the Biden impeachment inquiry is his bigger political gamble." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Signaling the hard road ahead, Trump-ally Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., mockingly reposted one of McCarthy's recent videos welcoming tourists at the Capitol." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "Signaling the hard road ahead, Trump-ally Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., mockingly reposted one of McCarthy's recent videos welcoming tourists at the Capitol." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "White House spokesman Ian Sams said: Speaker McCarthy shouldn't cave to the extreme, far-right members who are threatening to shut down the government unless they get a baseless, evidence-free impeachment of President Biden." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "White House spokesman Ian Sams said: Speaker McCarthy shouldn't cave to the extreme, far-right members who are threatening to shut down the government unless they get a baseless, evidence-free impeachment of President Biden." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Republicans have not yet been able to produce evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski said those who don't think a federal shutdown of government operations is a big deal ought to visit her state of Alaska and see real life." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "But starting a formal impeachment inquiry into Biden could help to appease Republican allies of Trump, who has emerged as the GOP frontruer to confront Biden in the 2024 election for the White House." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "But starting a formal impeachment inquiry into Biden could help to appease Republican allies of Trump, who has emerged as the GOP frontruer to confront Biden in the 2024 election for the White House." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "McCarthy says House impeachment inquiry of President Biden a 'natural step forward'But as McCarthy convenes lawmakers for a private huddle, even the temporary funding is expected to run into opposition from his right flank." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "McCarthy says House impeachment inquiry of President Biden a 'natural step forward'But as McCarthy convenes lawmakers for a private huddle, even the temporary funding is expected to run into opposition from his right flank." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "McCarthy says House impeachment inquiry of President Biden a 'natural step forward'But as McCarthy convenes lawmakers for a private huddle, even the temporary funding is expected to run into opposition from his right flank." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "There'll be a lot of arguing and fighting back and forth on funding, appropriations and all of these issues, said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., exiting McCarthy's office." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "There'll be a lot of arguing and fighting back and forth on funding, appropriations and all of these issues, said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., exiting McCarthy's office." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "Facing a backlash from conservatives who want to slash government funding, McCarthy may be able to ease the way by turning to another hard-right priority, launching a Biden impeachment inquiry over the business dealings of the president's son, Hunter Biden." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Facing a backlash from conservatives who want to slash government funding, McCarthy may be able to ease the way by turning to another hard-right priority, launching a Biden impeachment inquiry over the business dealings of the president's son, Hunter Biden." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Trump faces his own more serious charges of wrongdoing, including the federal indictments over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election he lost to Biden and his refusal to return classified documents stored at his Mar-a-Lago estate." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Trump faces his own more serious charges of wrongdoing, including the federal indictments over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election he lost to Biden and his refusal to return classified documents stored at his Mar-a-Lago estate." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
53% : Watching from the Senate, which has been working to pass all 12 of the regular bills needed to fund government operations, Republicans hope cooler heads in the House will prevail on all fronts.51% : But Trump's allies among House Republicans are working furiously to unearth any links between Biden and his son's business as they portray Hunter Biden as trading on the family name for financial enrichment and work to erode public support for the president ahead of the presidential election.
48% : He gave no new timetable for action.
44% : The conservatives want to beef up border security and address what Republicans deride as the "weaponization" of the Justice Department's prosecutions, including of those charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
43% : Even a stopgap measure to simply keep government funding at existing levels for a few months while Congress tries to finish the spending bills is a nonstarter for McCarthy's right flank.
28% : GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski said those who don't think a federal shutdown of government operations is a big deal ought to visit her state of Alaska and see "real life.
22% : Facing a backlash from conservatives who want to slash government funding, McCarthy may be able to ease the way by turning to another hard-right priority, launching a Biden impeachment inquiry over the business dealings of the president's son, Hunter Biden.
*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.