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US Senate confirms Pete Hegseth as defense secretary

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -58% Negative

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11% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

32% : They argued that Trump had dozens of more qualified conservative prospects for the job.
22% : The US Senate narrowly confirmed former Fox News host Pete Hegseth as the country's next defense secretary on Friday, after allies of Donald Trump spent weeks convincing Republicans to vote for one of the president's most contentious cabinet picks.
10% : Murkowski told CNN that Hegseth "lacks that strength of character'' to be the defense secretary, while GOP Sen. Roger Wicker said in a statement, "Peace through strength is back under President Trump and Pete Hegseth.

*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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