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Shutdown furloughing federal workers imperils business-critical data

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  • Reliability

    40% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -45% Negative

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.

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Schumer, writing on X, said Democrats want to avert a surge in healthcare premiums early next year for citizens who rely on Obamacare.
40% : "CBO expects that if a government shutdown persisted for several weeks, some private-sector entities would never recover all of the income they lost as a result of the suspension of federal activity," he said.
20% : " Vance blamed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Democrats for creating the impasse on federal spending, saying their chief aim is to restore health care funding for illegal immigrants. Democratic Party leaders "shut down the government because they said to us, 'We will open the government, but only if you give billions of dollars of funding for health care for illegal aliens,'" Vance said.

*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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