Rebutting 7 False Claims in Debt-Limit Fight

May 23, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    52% Very Conservative

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    24% Somewhat Conservative

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Bias Score Analysis

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"Either way, there's no excuse for claiming that enacting a lower spending cap would immediately reduce spending on veterans, border security, rail safety, and seemingly everything else under the sun."
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-10% Liberal
"Since Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress alone the power to authorize spending, levy taxes and fees, or issue additional debt, the idea that the 14 Amendment provides the president with unstated powers to ignore Congress on this issue is ludicrous."
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-12% Liberal
"Raising taxes on businesses won't help matters, since those taxes would simply be felt through lower wages, higher consumer prices, and slower job growth."
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-14% Liberal
"We've seen this dictatorial approach on COVID-19-era evictions and student loans, and now, Biden has embraced the notion that the president can increase the debt ceiling without legislative authority."
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-22% Liberal
"House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., described a Monday evening conversation at the White House, however, as productive."
Positive
26% Conservative
"Even as McCarthy has invested heavily in attempting to bring a measure of fiscal sanity to the Washington swamp, his public image has improved."
Positive
12% Conservative
"In what has become a recurring theme, the Biden administration once again claims to have the unilateral authority to sidestep Congress and do as it please."
Positive
10% Conservative
"In fact, during his time in the Senate, Biden voted for three of them."
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6% Conservative
"Yet McCarthy managed to thread the needle and guide the Limit, Save, Grow Act to passage."
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0% Conservative
"However, all three of the debt-limit increases under Trump were directly linked to spending actions."
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-4% Liberal
"What matters most is that Republicans, led by McCarthy, must not buckle under pressure from Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media."
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-8% Liberal
"An important factor surrounding the issue is McCarthy's negotiating position."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Despite that, there's tremendous pressure on McCarthy and other Republicans in Congress to back down and increase the debt limit without any measures to reduce inflationary deficit spending."
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-16% Liberal
"There are several variations on this assertion, including an offer from the Biden administration that focuses on trillions in tax hikes and that the 2017 tax cuts were a handout to the wealthy."
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-16% Liberal
"Following a number of rounds of discussions between House Republican officials and the Biden administration, the two sides still haven't reached an agreement on increasing the federal debt limit."
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-18% Liberal
"Biden has made this claim so often that The Washington Post issued a bottomless Pinocchio rating."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"In contrast, poor households are losing ground under Biden due to punishingly high inflation."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"We've seen this dictatorial approach on COVID-19-era evictions and student loans, and now, Biden has embraced the notion that the president can increase the debt ceiling without legislative authority."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"This is the most common rhetorical tactic from Biden, essentially contending that if it weren't for Republicans, there wouldn't be a problem."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"That Biden is willing to entertain such dangerous radicalism does not speak well of his judgment."
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-28% Liberal
"They claim that that's how Republicans handled the issue during the Trump administration."
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-30% Liberal
"In contrast, Biden's choices have increased short- and near-term deficits by more than $6 trillion, which is especially bad at a time of high inflation and rising interest rates."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"It can be hard to tell whether Biden has forgotten how federal budgeting works or is just pretending not to know."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Led by President Joe Biden, Democrats have deployed at least seven false, misleading, or nonsensical claims over the past few weeks to pressure McCarthy into caving in."
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-2% Liberal
"Led by President Joe Biden, Democrats have deployed at least seven false, misleading, or nonsensical claims over the past few weeks to pressure McCarthy into caving in."
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-2% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Either way, there's no excuse for claiming that enacting a lower spending cap would immediately reduce spending on veterans, border security, rail safety, and seemingly everything else under the sun.
44% : Since Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress alone the power to authorize spending, levy taxes and fees, or issue additional debt, the idea that the 14 Amendment provides the president with unstated powers to ignore Congress on this issue is ludicrous.
43% : Raising taxes on businesses won't help matters, since those taxes would simply be felt through lower wages, higher consumer prices, and slower job growth.
39% : We've seen this dictatorial approach on COVID-19-era evictions and student loans, and now, Biden has embraced the notion that the president can increase the debt ceiling without legislative authority.

*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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