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play politics

  1. Act for personal or political gain rather than principle, as in I don't think this judge is fair—he's playing politics. [Mid-1800s]



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“I can't survive without Medicare yet when the time came to protect and fund Medicare, Congresswoman Kaptur voted no. A bipartisan vote and Marcy Kaptur chose to play politics instead of standing up for us,” the narrator states.

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Their leader Jane Dodds said her deal to pass the Welsh government's budget last month showed she would not "play politics" with people's lives.

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Later in 2020, Trump attempted to play politics with federal emergency relief funds.

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“You can do real policy work and not just play politics with it.”

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"So yeah, I think it's a very substantial concern that the court will play politics with this. I hope they won't."

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