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Trump administration cites 'changing priorities' in emails that fired inspectors general

Jan 26, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -13% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : As recently as last week, Mick Mulvaney, who was one of Trump's chiefs of staff in his first term, wrote in an op-ed specifically that "a good place for Trump to start" cleaning out the "Deep State" would be with firing inspectors general.
64% : "It's a very standard thing to do, very much like the U.S. attorneys," Trump said.
38% : Trump classified the firings as a "common thing to do" as he talked to reporters aboard Air Force One on his way from Las Vegas to Miami Saturday evening.
13% : Late Friday night, Trump fired at least 17 inspectors general at multiple federal agencies.

*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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