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What to know about Scott Bessent, Trump's pick for treasury secretary - The Boston Globe

Nov 23, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    2% Center

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -20% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Bessent has backed extending provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which Trump signed into law in his first year in office, though estimates from various economic analysis of the costs of the various tax cuts range between nearly $6 trillion and $10 trillion over 10 years.
52% : "Trump on the campaign trail proposed a 60% tariff on goods from China -- and a tariff of up to 20% on everything else the United States imports.
30% : In 2020, Trump named Richard Grenell, who is openly gay, acting director of national intelligence.

*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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