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Trump picks former Florida Rep. Dr. Dave Weldon as director of CDC

  • Bias Rating

    78% Very Conservative

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    30% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -23% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Trump said that Dr. Weldon "understands American Family Values."CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP"As a father of two and a husband of 45 years, Dave understands American Family Values, and views Health as one of utmost importance," he said.
62% : The current Health of Americans is critical, and CDC will play a big role in helping to ensure Americans have the tools and resources they need to understand the underlying causes of diseases, and the solutions to cure these diseases," Trump added.
47% : Dave has successfully worked with the CDC to enact a ban on patents for human embryos," Trump said.
31% : "In addition to being a Medical Doctor for 40 years, and an Army Veteran, Dave has been a respected conservative leader on fiscal and social issues, and served on the Labor/HHS Appropriations Subcommittee, working for Accountability on HHS and CDC Policy and Budgeting," Trump said in the Friday evening announcement.
12% : Trump said that Dr. Weldon will play a key part in "Making America Healthy Again," saying that he will work on correcting "past errors.

*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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