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welfare state

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as in state

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Recent Examples on the Web Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris vowed twice this week to revive Democratic plans to expand the welfare state, previewing a campaign message against Donald Trump and potentially signaling one of her top priorities should she be elected. —

Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 24 July 2024 Whatever the outcome, Macron's 7-year political experiment with pro-business policies aimed at boosting the economy and reforming the bloated welfare state will be dented. —

Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 7 July 2024 President Dwight Eisenhower seems to have been the last guy in the post-WWII era who understood that the welfare state, the warfare state, and tax cuts not backed by tough spending cuts are incompatible with fiscally responsible government, or at least with reasonably-sized government. —

Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Fortune, 24 June 2024 Yet, as immigration became more central to British politics, politicians studiously avoided all allusions to colonialism, and instead fueled the myth that immigrants were coming to steal British jobs and feed off the welfare state. —

Balaji Ravichandran, Washington Post, 12 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for welfare state

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