Understand the bias, discover the truth in your news. Get Started
USA Today Article Rating

How some Senate Democrats sided with Republicans to vote against government shutdown

Mar 15, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    48% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -24% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. 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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

8% Positive

  •   Conservative
SentenceSentimentBias
Unlock this feature by upgrading to the Pro plan.

Bias Meter

Extremely
Liberal

Very
Liberal

Moderately
Liberal

Somewhat Liberal

Center

Somewhat Conservative

Moderately
Conservative

Very
Conservative

Extremely
Conservative

-100%
Liberal

100%
Conservative

Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

19% : "As bad as passing the CR (continuing resolution) is, as I said, allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option," Schumer said in his statement. How senators voted on advance vote Democrats faced criticism for either choice, USA TODAY reported.
12% : In announcing his decision Thursday, Schumer said the shutdown would be more damaging to the country because it would give Trump and billionaire Elon Musk greater leeway to cut federal spending.

*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.

Copy link