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Marco Rubio, secretary of everything

  • Bias Rating
  • Reliability

    40% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -26% Negative

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24% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Trump announced Rubio's newest position in a social media post Thursday afternoon, a surprise twist in the first big personnel shake-up of this administration.
59% : Acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
59% : In the same post, Trump said Waltz would now be his nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations.
37% : " The fact that Rubio now leads four bodies is a sign not only of the trust placed in him by Trump, but also of the close relationship he has with Susie Wiles, the veteran political operative who is Trump's chief of staff.
31% : Four days before Shogan's firing, Rubio announced he was the acting administrator for USAID, as Elon Musk, the billionaire adviser to Trump, and Pete Marocco, a political appointee in the State Department, were gutting the agency.
27% : Marco Rubio, 53, has accumulated four titles starting with his confirmation as secretary of state on Jan. 20, the same day that Trump took his oath of office.
26% : Even before Trump appointed the top U.S. diplomat/archivist/aid agency administrator to be interim national security adviser, some analysts were pointing out the problems with Rubio holding all these positions.
19% : Trump fired the head archivist, Colleen Shogan, in early February in an apparent act of retribution against the National Archives and Records Administration.

*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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