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'They've got 3 choices': Senator gives ultimatum to colleagues wary of debt limit increase

Apr 04, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -56% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-7% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : This could include amendments barring tax cuts for wealthy income brackets and forbidding cuts to Medicaid, which is the proverbial "third rail" of US politics, according to public reaction at town halls and "tele-town halls.
32% : Democrats may have a stronger public argument in the upcoming days as the pain of tariffs put a hit on middle-class purchasing power, while pointing to wealthy men like Trump playing golf as markets plunge.
31% : Republicans make clear their budget adheres to Trump's goal of extending his 2017 tax cuts, despite the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation predicting the cuts to cost $4.6 trillion.
30% : " READ MORE: How Mike Johnson's behavior exposes GOP push to 'force women out of public life': analysis "You're going to see a whole lot of amendments going after Donald Trump and the Republicans on a whole bunch of issues where they are favoring billionaires and against families," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters.

*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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