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Recent Examples of defund from the Web
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According to Time and People, the two have clashed since their initial encounter over Trump's silence on Republican attempts to defund the nonprofit.
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Last year, after the latest attempt to defund her organization had been turned back, Richards was at a celebration in Nashville.
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In 2017, Texas Governor Greg Abbott used the line-item veto to defund the state’s Colonia Initiatives Program.
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In 2013, the government shut down after Republicans insisted any government funding bill include provisions defunding Obamacare.
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Since that date, several states, like South Carolina and Arizona, have attempted to defund Planned Parenthood, but none have made it quite as far as Nebraska.
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The decision not to defund Planned Parenthood was amongst the criticisms leveled against the $1.3 trillion spending bill President Trump signed last week.
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Josh Holmes, a former top aide to McConnell, points to recent history to make the case that Democrats are the ones to blame: In 2013, conservative Republicans refused to vote for a spending bill that did not defund Obamacare.
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At a rally in Pennsylvania ahead of the special election, Trump also made a call to defund sanctuary cities in the funding bill — which would be a nonstarter for Democrats.
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