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'Ignorant': Trump gets schooled as he proposes new agency to collect tariffs

Jan 15, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -55% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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7% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "That's when George Washington signed legislation creating the US Customs Service, the forerunner of what is now [the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency]."
47% : ""It is time for that to change," Trump added.
44% : "For far too long, we have relied on taxing our Great People using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)," Trump posted.
38% : Donald Trump called for the creation of a new federal agency dedicated to collecting the tariffs he's threatening to impose on U.S. trading partners -- but he was quickly taught there's already a government entity that does that.
38% : "ALSO READ: Fox News has blood on its hands as Trump twists the knife
32% : While the president-elect and his allies Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have called for the elimination of millions of government jobs and even some federal departments, Trump sketched out a proposal for a new one that suggests his tariff threats are more than just a negotiating tactic.

*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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