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Biden fires Trump-appointed Social Security chief whose benefits and union policies infuriated Democrats

Jul 11, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -18% Somewhat Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -14% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    34% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : In a letter to the White House in March, Rep Pascrell - who also chairs the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight and is a member of the Subcommittee on Social Security - accused Mr Saul and deputy commissioner David Black of a "stunning streak of disregard, callousness, and destruction of the agency".
45% : "I consider myself the term-protected commissioner of Social Security," he told the newspaper, adding that he called his firing a "Friday Night Massacre".

*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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