WEIS Article RatingSenate passes short-term government funding bill averting shutdown - WEIS | Local & Area News, Sports, & Weather
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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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| "The bill extends government funding until Jan. 19 for the Veterans Affairs, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Energy departments, as well as for military construction." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "The White House official had called on the GOP to stop wasting time on extreme, partisan appropriations bills and pass the president's supplemental aid request for Israel, Ukraine, border security, humanitarian assistance and other priorities." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The rest of the government is funded until Feb. 2.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer previously aounced that the upper chamber intended to work with Republicans to pass the bill as early as Wednesday." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "House Speaker Mike Johnson pitched a two-step plan that he described as a laddered CR -- or continuing resolution -- that will keep the government funded at 2023 levels." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "If both sides cooperate, there's no reason we can't finish this bill even as soon as today, but we're going to keep working to see what's possible, Schumer said earlier in the day." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The White House had originally dismissed the GOP proposal as unserious, but a White House official said earlier on Wednesday that President Joe Biden would sign the short-term funding bill if it passed in the Senate." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "While Senate bills typically take a long, winding path before they reach a final vote on the floor, Schumer previously said he plaed to work with Minority Leader Mitch McCoell to see if they could expedite it." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "While Senate bills typically take a long, winding path before they reach a final vote on the floor, Schumer previously said he plaed to work with Minority Leader Mitch McCoell to see if they could expedite it." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
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58% : The bill extends government funding until Jan. 19 for the Veterans Affairs, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Energy departments, as well as for military construction.46% : The White House official had called on the GOP to "stop wasting time on extreme, partisan appropriations bills" and pass the president's supplemental aid request for Israel, Ukraine, border security, humanitarian assistance and other priorities.
*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.