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Why Josh Hawley's latest stunt is his most hypocritical
by Zeeshan Aleem Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is making some noise this week by threatening to block President Joe Biden’s State and Defense Department nominations after mishandling the Afghanistan withdrawal. There's an irony in this move, Zeeshan Aleem writes, not least because Biden has in fact upheld a position that Hawley himself supported in the past.
“Hawley and everyone else in Washington knows this rebellion is mostly a symbolic one,” Aleem writes, “and one which is meant to generate attention more than results.”
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