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Musk says administration is on verge of shutting USAID

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    60% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -43% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Musk formed DOGE in cooperation with the Trump administration with the stated goal of finding ways to fire federal workers, cut programs and slash federal regulations.
48% : A current and a former U.S. official told The Associated Press on Sunday that THE move came after the two USAID officials refused to allow personnel from the Musk-run Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to access classified material in restricted areas.
47% : Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in a post on Sunday that the president was letting Musk access people's personal information and shut down government funding.
42% : And we're getting them out," President Trump said to reporters about USAID on Sunday night.
40% : Washington -- The U.S. Agency for International Development is on the cusp of being shuttered, according the Trump administration's billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who's been wrestling for control of the agency in recent days.

*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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