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“All of that economic data will be permanently impaired,” Leavitt said, blaming Democrats’ refusal to agree to the administration’s budget demands.

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Despite the court’s refusal to reconsider Obergefell, the right’s campaign to overturn the decision is not over.

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Democrats have withheld the votes needed to reopen the government over Republican refusals to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits.

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Neither was interested in books; in his father’s case, the author quips, the refusal to read “was so steadfast as to seem almost principled.”

The recent refusal to hear UC’s challenge to the lower court’s decision was met with joy by immigrant rights groups.

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