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New GOP Senate Leader Is a Former Lobbyist Who Has Taken Aim at Social Security | Common Dreams

Nov 13, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    6% Center

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -32% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    28% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Thune has previously expressed support for leveraging the debt limit -- and the threat of a catastrophic default -- to secure steep cuts to federal spending and possible changes to Social Security such as raising the retirement age, which would slash benefits across the board.
42% : "Thune has called for taking the debt limit hostage to force cuts to Social Security," Nancy Altman, the group's president, said in a statement.
41% : Sen. John Thune "has called for taking the debt limit hostage to force cuts to Social Security," warned one defender of the nation's most effective anti-poverty program.
37% : "Thune has called for taking the debt limit hostage to force cuts to Social Security.

*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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