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New Bill Proposes Cutting Pentagon Spending to Fund Vaccines for Poor Nations

Aug 20, 2021 View Original Article
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    -18% Somewhat Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    24% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    10% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : In a press release, Pocan's office said that the funding -- which represents just 1.3% of the $740.5 billion in U.S. military spending approved for 2021 -- "could lead to an additional 1.8 billion Covid vaccine doses for lower-income countries in 2021 and early 2022.
55% : The Covid Defense Act proposes transferring $9.6 billion in U.S. military spending to Covax -- a global vaccination initiative led by the World Health Organization -- to assist with the procurement of doses for the people of low-income nations.

*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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