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Biden's drilling ban could test presidential powers

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -27% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : However, domestic oil production reached an all-time high under Biden.
32% : "Trump campaigned on a pledge to boost fossil fuel extraction and suggested that the country wasn't producing enough oil.
29% : "But I think that probably the better argument is that it's not a one-way ratchet and that Trump can come in and undo these withdrawals.
25% : "I'll unban it immediately," Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, without offering details about how he would do that.
22% : Trump will likely try to reverse the move, which protects more than 625 million acres from future oil and gas leasing.
21% : "This is a disgraceful decision designed to exact political revenge on the American people who gave President Trump a mandate to increase drilling and lower gas prices," Leavitt said in a statement.
20% : After news of Biden's action, Trump said in an interview Monday that he would reverse the ban.
14% : "Do I think this statute is a one-way ratchet, such that once President Biden issues these withdrawals, President Trump can't undo them?

*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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