Los Angeles Times Article Rating

Trump administration launches review of California's high speed rail spending

Feb 20, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    54% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : California's high-speed rail endeavor has been targeted by Department of Government Efficiency, the organization run by Elon Musk.
48% : The announcement comes days after Republican lawmakers urged Trump to investigate the high-speed rail train and after Trump and Cabinet leaders signaled they would examine the project.
41% : During the press conference, chants from protesters on the other side of a curtain that separated the press conference from the train station drowned out comments from Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin) and other lawmakers who are against the high-speed rail project. Jesse Budlong, a transportation planner who attended the protest, called the location of the announcement a political grandstand against transit users who rely on public transportation.
19% : " Trump slammed the high-speed rail project earlier this month, calling it "mismanaged."

*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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