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Will Elon Musk dominate President Trump's economic policy?

Jan 02, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    28% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    24% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    5% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : In December, when Congress ended up passing a budget without lifting the debt ceiling -- against the wishes of Messrs Trump and Musk -- the latter offered distinctly muted praise of Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives.
58% : Most agree that America needs fewer regulations, smaller government, lower taxes, less immigration and a tougher stance on foreign opponents.
55% : After leaving office, Mr Miller established the America First Legal Foundation to fight what many conservatives see as overreach of the administrative state.
53% : The most visible are Mr Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, a biotech billionaire and former Republican presidential candidate, who together will lead the Department of Government Efficiency.
49% : "Trump likes Lighthizer, and I'm sure at some point he will be back in," says Stephen Moore, an economic adviser to the president-elect.
47% : Yet she also previously served as general counsel at the Internet Association, an industry group, where she argued that government interference stifled innovation.
45% : Many also share a techno-libertarian belief in smaller government as a good thing in its own right, and see Mr Trump as likely to roll back Joe Biden's statist policies.
42% : Mr Trump has vowed not to lay a hand on Social Security.
34% : Deregulation is, generally speaking, good for their ventures -- directly so for those with large crypto holdings.

*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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