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The Economist Article Rating

Marco Rubio, MAGA and the State Department's new look

Apr 22, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    24% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    20% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : In developing the current plan, Mr Rubio is said to have worked with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
47% : He said it was "beholden to radical political ideology".
45% : Judges are considering whether the administration's closure of the Agency for International Development earlier this year violated the law.
27% : Bush's successor, Bill Clinton, tried again, with somewhat better luck.
16% : At a time when Donald Trump's worst instincts are dominating public policy, it is notable that Marco Rubio's reforms at the State Department resemble what might have come out of a conventional Republican administration.

*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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