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play politics
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]
Example Sentences
“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.
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.
Later in 2020, Trump attempted to play politics with federal emergency relief funds.
“You can do real policy work and not just play politics with it.”
"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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