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'They just yanked $1 billion': Reporter stumps GOP sen with rundown of how Trump hurts his state

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  • Reliability

    35% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -52% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : " Collins noted the U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright "actually" told her "they would have [shut down the project] even if the government wasn't shut down.
50% : "Is that a Democrat fund that you supported?" Sheehy insisted Trump will use "every tool in his toolbox" and argued "there have to be consequences for bad behavior" before launching into another monologue about the "Schumer shutdown.
48% : Collins then got to her main point: The Department of Energy's decision to cancel a $1 billion project that Montana's own governor said would have created good paying Montana jobs and boost American-made energy.
45% : "It's people who have different legal status, people who are seeking asylum, refugees ...
23% : " Sheehy tried to stop Collins from moving on, arguing "you can't just pave over that because a lot of people come under asylum, claim asylum, which are not actually asylum seekers.
21% : " Later in the segment, Collins pushed back on Sheehy's claim that the Democrats want to fund "healthcare for non citizens, illegal immigrants" -- and called out the Republican senator for "getting off [the] topic" of Trump's cancelled programs.

*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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