He acknowledged that reforms were needed, but worried about hamstringing defenders.
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At worst, he'd been hamstringing the intelligence community for the foreseeable future.
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That said, Mike Bloomberg remains in the race, potentially hamstringing Mr. Biden.
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Would that insurance include hamstringing the presidency with a politically motivated Russian investigation?
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Even presidents Obama and Clinton admitted that high taxes were hamstringing American businesses.
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Lawmakers argue that the law has been hamstringing relief efforts on the island.
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But even average growth is optimistic if we keep hamstringing our job creators.
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Most recently, the Senate invalidated an Obama-era CFPB rule hamstringing auto loans.
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Spotify is hamstringing the growth of its most dedicated user base for reasons unknown.
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The risks for the Fed are of turning Japanese, hamstringing it from returning to normal.
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When asked, Lobo conceded that these bills may very well be hamstringing state economic development.
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Even some of the department's own personnel have questioned whether Treasury is intentionally hamstringing the investigation.
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A corruption trial may soon put Mr Sharif behind bars, hamstringing the chief foe of both institutions.
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The platforms can do mostly whatever they want without much having to worry about hamstringing themselves in the future.
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In 2016 Congress passed a bill hamstringing the DEA's ability to seize suspicious shipments of opioids from drug distributors.
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"Yet, it still should never be so conservative that one risks hamstringing their potential returns in retirement," Crowell said.
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Given its inability to respond nimbly in the rapidly shifting privacy arena, Congress should avoid hamstringing those who can.
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The U.S. is also effectively hamstringing its regional allies, many of whom will find themselves in an impossible situation.
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" On his past comments about hamstringing the Mueller probe: "I have not denied any funds to the special counsel's investigation.
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That would keep the prohibition in place until after President Obama leaves office, hamstringing his efforts to shutter the detention facility.
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If the merger is approved, it would create a cable company almost as big as Comcast, potentially hamstringing cable networks' negotiating power.
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By excluding Christians from the foster-care field, states like Illinois are hamstringing their ability to address the crises that they face.
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But in the meantime, the Trump digital program has netted very little revenue, further hamstringing a campaign that is being significantly outspent.
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JPMorgan issued major reductions to earnings forecasts on U.S. airline companies Friday, warning that reluctance to raise fare prices is hamstringing profits.
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He has filled the Supreme Court with pro-government Chavistas, completely hamstringing any legislating capacity the National Assembly would try to retain.
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Although the Organization of American States backed a redo of the election, the Trump administration recognized the result, hamstringing the democratic opposition.
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The changes could give a boost to struggling coal companies, while hamstringing future efforts to limit mercury emissions from the nation's power plants.
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And this administration just refuses and they're hamstringing scientists and their ability to do their work," Whitman told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day.
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Calls for infrastructure investment have increased from both major parties as concerns grow about disrepair and inefficiencies hamstringing the U.S. economy and costing lives.
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His flouting of how a president needs to act in private is, on an almost daily basis, now hamstringing and endangering his first term.
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Let's be clear, the overly strict enforcement of incidental take against American industry under MBTA is about hamstringing vital economic development and energy production.
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If the party can win back Congress in 2018, it can immediately start hamstringing Trump's presidency without resorting to the unlikely path of impeachment.
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On the state level, instead of hiking payroll tax and hamstringing job growth, New York and other states should cut it, as Colorado did.
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Pai has defended "state rights" when states pass protectionist laws hamstringing broadband competition, but those concerns evaporated when some states attempted to actually protect consumers.
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But Rosenstein believes the government's inability to pry open that digital chatter is hamstringing lawful investigations into terrorism, child pornography and all manner of crime.
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But if they follow Facebook's suggestions, they might reinforce the social network's power rather than keep it in check by hamstringing companies with fewer resources.
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The blog post engendered an immediate reaction from pro-Lifeline advocates, who accused Pai of hamstringing the program and questioned his commitment to expanding digital access.
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Both parties have done away with any pretense of fiscal probity, so the national debt continues its stratospheric ascent, mortgaging our future and hamstringing future generations.
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And they accuse gun lobbies of intentionally watering down legislation and hamstringing agencies so the laws are useless, a point lobbyists contacted by CNN declined to address.
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McCarthy admitted that it was a "bad shooting" and that the officer should be punished, but argued that the uproar over police brutality is "hamstringing" law enforcement.
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These typically serve to catalyze demand (through increased cash or borrowing power), but do not directly alleviate the kind of production paralysis capable of hamstringing global commerce.
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Sanctions experts say that in ordinary times the executive branch's power over these penalties should prevail to avoid hamstringing the diplomatic process with Congressional hearings and votes.
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Now the nationalists in the regime are free to take apart Obama's Clean Power Plan, which they see as an economic straitjacket hamstringing the country's extractive industries.
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We learned that Kushner has been stripped of his top secret security clearance, hamstringing his ability to oversee his broad portfolio of responsibilities within the White House.
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As a consequence, major conservative bill after major conservative bill has passed the House, only to go nowhere in the Senate — hamstringing Republicans' ambitions for sweeping legislative change.
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But today it has become a public health hazard, and is costing the city of San Francisco millions in constant cleanup and hamstringing businesses with lost tourist revenue.
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The United States has tried to cut off the telecom firm Huawei and other Chinese companies from buying American technological components over national security concerns, hamstringing prominent businesses.
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Reid argued that McConnell's use of the filibuster was not only hamstringing the US Senate, it also had the same effect on the president of the United States.
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Trump predicted in a tweet that the majority of Buttigieg's votes in Super Tuesday states would go to Biden, thereby hamstringing Sanders's chances of obtaining the Democratic nomination.
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Without lobbyists killing oversight and 1990s-style drug war hysteria hamstringing policy, U.K. officials have produced a piecemeal regulatory system that carefully monitors nicotine levels in vape products.
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Washington (CNN)The Trump administration is "hamstringing scientists and their ability to do their work" to tackle climate change, Christine Todd Whitman, a former Environmental Protection Agency administrator, said Wednesday.
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So the new rules, which took effect last month, limit drone use to visual line-of-sight operation, hamstringing operators interested in delivery, search-and-rescue, and remote-inspection operations.
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By relying on an instructor, a classroom, or a series of online videos, instead of on focused, weakness-targeted labor, students are hamstringing themselves and their own ability to learn.
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This would require investing more resources in the Office of Refugee Resettlement so that it can care for asylum seekers and refugees properly, rather than hamstringing it with budget reductions.
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Yet year after year of record operating results posted within the industry since 2014 demonstrate that the rule can hardly be accused of hamstringing banks' earnings potential, according to Bove.
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Trudeau, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, and several additional cabinet ministers also discussed the subsequent rail blockades by Wet'suwet'en supporters that are currently hamstringing the majority of Canada's train routes.
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The case has dragged on for years while Fernandez refused to negotiate with funds she dismissed as "vultures," hamstringing Argentina's finances by keeping it locked out of the global bond market.
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Carbon taxes can be constructed in a way that substantially speeds greenhouse gas cuts without hamstringing the economy or regressive financial effects, according to joint research in four papers published Tuesday.
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Yet a large number of Africans outside Zimbabwe have been hoodwinked into believing Mr Mugabe's lie that sanctions were responsible for hamstringing the entire economy and harming millions of blameless Zimbabweans.
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Speaking before a meeting with small business owners, Trump laid into the Wall Street reform law ushered through by President Obama, arguing it was hamstringing American businesses trying to line up credit.
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All 10 would disproportionately affect women if stripped, with more than half of them (hospitalizations; maternity and newborn care; prescription drugs; lab tests; preventative services; and pediatric services) hamstringing reproductive health explicitly.
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But by holding our bilateral relationship hostage to their personal politics, Trump and Netanyahu are hamstringing the ability to cooperate as deeply down the road while signaling -- globally -- that politics trumps policy.
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So I think one of the ways is to change the frame of mind is that you have to untethered this simply from a religious aspect because that&aposs what hamstringing our media.
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Indeed, had Tedros done so, there would likely have been a raft of articles criticizing the WHO for needlessly offending China at a time of crisis and hamstringing its own ability to operate.
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To make matters worse, Trump has failed to fill a raft of senior posts in the State Department, hamstringing America's ability to exercise the diplomatic power necessary to broker peace and foster stability.
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Without the benefit of full intelligence sharing with our global partners -- and the trust and candor from our foreign counterparts -- the President is hamstringing the home team's ability to protect the American people.
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One side will claim the McCabe revelation as proof positive that there is indeed a broad-scale conspiracy within the upper echelons of the government aimed at ousting and/or hamstringing President Trump.
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"If that's their objective, then they are certainly hamstringing their capacity to do it," said Adams, who also served as former undersecretary for international affairs at the Treasury Department under President George Bush.
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If our party remains sidelined on this topic, we are not only hamstringing ourselves in competitive elections, but ceding complete ownership of a pivotal issue to Democrats and their command-and-control agenda.
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This rule is now hamstringing Italy's economy by preventing its government from pumping in state aid to recapitalise its teetering banks, as Spain (and, for that matter, the Netherlands) successfully did during the crisis.
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Park's legislative agenda had been bogged down in a parliament deadlocked by feuding and she had blamed both sides for hamstringing her push to boost growth, create jobs and get on with structural reforms.
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The company has also been routinely criticized for heavy-handed tactics in terms of hamstringing employee unionization efforts, and more recently came under fire for hiring Trump ally Corey Lewandowski as a merger advisor.
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George W. Bush kicked off his presidency by breaking his campaign promise to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, denying the need for a global climate treaty, and hamstringing his conservationist EPA chief. Sen.
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"The failure to understand the technological side effects of this bill -- specifically that it will become harder to expose sex-traffickers, while hamstringing innovation -- will be something that this Congress will regret," he said.
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It's also reasonable to suspect the current situation is not hamstringing authorities as much as they state, and this is yet another way for Western law enforcement and intelligence agencies to push that agenda.
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"But what we won't do, and the clean power plan was all about that, was hamstringing energy in this country, raising the cost of utility rates for working families across this country," Pence said Sunday.
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Written in 1998 to purportedly protect American intellectual property from infringement, the law has long been criticized as an overbroad mess, hamstringing everything from security research to a user's right to repair products they own.
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Leaving aside the fact that Rosenstein is in fact a Republican appointed by George W. Bush, Trump's desire to fire or reassign him and Sessions is directly tied with the goal of hamstringing the Mueller investigation.
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As Republican presidential candidates and lawmakers rail against what they see as overzealous financial regulation hamstringing U.S. businesses and growth, Furman defended the American economy and the White House's policy as a model in tumultuous times.
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Both the City Commissioner and the Meruelo family declined to comment, citing the ongoing lawsuit, but the family has previously indicated insurance and other financial problems were hamstringing their attempts to comply with local demands for repairs.
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" And David Frum on Twitter echoed the complaint of liberals about the hamstringing of the FBI probe into sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh: "We searched everywhere except where lawyers for the accused told us not to look.
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But the truth is that it almost never happens -- for a lot of reasons but mostly because the parties live in fear of a chaotic nominating process hamstringing their eventual nominees and costing them the White House.
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It guarantees that Silicon Valley and its analogues around the country simply will avoid doing business with the Department of Defense (DOD), further hamstringing government efforts to maintain its lead in the most cutting-edge of military technologies.
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As a consequence, major conservative bill after major conservative bill has passed the House, only to go nowhere in the Senate — hamstringing Republican ambitions for sweeping legislative change in this rare period of unified party control of Washington.
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And at least one of the big reforms it has undertaken—the overnight cancellation of most of India's banknotes in an effort to curb the black economy—was counterproductive, hamstringing legitimate businesses without doing much harm to illicit ones.
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Republicans in Congress and the president himself are constantly hamstringing or just threatening to blow up the Mueller investigation entirely, and Donald Trump is pardoning famous people or people famous people told him to care about seemingly every week.
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Some critics who want the party to speak out more about Iran blame Schumer's past opposition for hamstringing efforts to fight Trump's Iran policy, even though Schumer now says it was a mistake to pull out of the deal.
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"As long as Mr. Trump continues his Twitter campaign against Chairman Jerome Powell and the Fed, he'll be hamstringing his own nominees and the broader case for more intellectual diversity" at the central bank, the WSJ editorial board writes.
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High-profile members of the Trump administration have been dragging their feet and flat-out ignoring congressional subpoenas, hamstringing Democrats' efforts to learn more about the Mueller report and the push to add a citizenship question to the Census.
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During my first playthrough, however, one of the new features (which actually comes from earlier iterations of Civilization) ended up completely hamstringing me, and right in the midst of a campaign to overtake a new continent that was going very well.
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But they must first come to an agreement to raise the statutory spending caps that have been in place for the past six years, irresponsibly hamstringing our military's ability to meet evolving and growing threats around the world, including in cyberspace.
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In hamstringing the ability of the World Trade Organization to resolve disputes and failing to offer solutions, the United States has called into question the survival of the trade system based on rules and possibly even the World Trade Organization itself.
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One must hope that Europe will be able to resist German pressure to choose a new ECB president who would try to mold the ECB in the Bundesbank's rigid image, thereby hamstringing its ability to deal with the next European economic crisis.
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"These global energy and environmental policies will have an impact on U.S. interests, and we want to make sure we protect those so they're not hamstringing economic growth, innovation, entrepreneurship in the U.S.," said Wells Griffith, Mr. Trump's international energy and climate adviser.
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PENCE: But what -- but what we -- but what we won't do -- and the Clean Power Plan was all about that -- was hamstringing energy in this country, raising the cost of utility rates for working families across this country... TAPPER: But is it a threat?
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We've observed for some time now how the introduction of Negan has affected the show's viewership, by hamstringing its pacing and relying too heavily on the comic book source material while letting standard TV requirements — strong character development, pacing, and dialogue — fall by the wayside.
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"If it seems strange that the BOJ is hamstringing the price discovery mechanism of the Japanese stock market by partially nationalizing it, it is all the stranger that it chooses to do so by substantially skewing its buying towards such a distorting index," he said.
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Nevertheless, the principal objective has always been to ensure that the president would get no more than one term, a term that Democrats would endeavor to steep in scandal, hamstringing the administration's capacity to govern and to pursue the agenda on which Trump ran in 2016.
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The most popular ballot measure in state history would be the one that limits all propositions to no more than six per ballot, bans multiple propositions on the same subject, and stops hamstringing the legislature by imposing budget requirements or mandates to go back to the voters.
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"Moreover, given the healthy increases in lending over the last several years and the record levels of commercial bank profits recorded in 2016, it would seem a substantial overreach to claim that the new regulatory system is broadly hamstringing either the banking industry or the economy," Tarullo said.
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So it's now a sure-thing that national Democrats will remain fixated on this issue for the foreseeable future - and while it may succeed in hamstringing Trump, the kind of paranoid ardor underlying the general "Russia narrative" can't lead to fruitful politics and a future that puts them back into power.
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All of which is to say that while the subject of financial regulation is a sharply partisan and polarized one in Washington — with Republicans routinely charging the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulation overhaul of hamstringing the economy with red tape and excessive regulation — when actual wrongdoing comes to light, everyone is inclined to agree that it's important to get tough.
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Moreover, Ms. Trump has supported her father as he stripped reproductive rights from the State Department's yearly Human Rights Report; eliminated aid to the United Nations Population Fund, hamstringing its work in 150 countries to expand access to contraceptives and provide emergency obstetric care, among other crucial services; and withdrew health care access from millions of Americans who rely on Planned Parenthood health centers.
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Though many choose not to believe, the red flags have been there all along: the desire to rewrite America's narrative; the promise of economic equality through wealth redistribution; the hamstringing of the economy through stifling regulations; the pursuit of a foreign policy built on apology and appeasement; not to forget the war on law enforcement, the judiciary, the criminal justice system, the constitution, our schools, the middle class, even entertainment — all as expressions of racism, privilege and capitalism gone amok ... the list goes on.
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