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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this Federal Reserve story was largely uniform, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points across all outlets. Most headlines — from The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Axios, and NeutralNews — used straightforward, descriptive language such as "dissenters warn," "floats cut," and "weighs rate decisions amid internal divisions," presenting the story as a factual account of policy deliberation and internal Fed disagreement. The modest exception was The Boston Globe, the left-most outlet at −0.5, whose headline — "Trump wanted interest rate cuts to be 'Rocket Fuel' for the economy. He is losing that fight so far" — introduced a competitive framing around Trump personally, using the phrase "losing that fight" to suggest presidential failure. No outlet at the right end of the scale offered a comparably pointed counter-framing; the spread reflects a single outlet's editorial choice rather than a genuine ideological divide across the coverage.