"Political blowback" refers to the negative consequences or backlash that a leader or political party may experience as a result of their actions, policies, or decisions. It often involves a negative public reaction, loss of support, or damage to their reputation.
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The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act was a monumental achievement in 2001 — and the union's greatest political defeat in the modern era — but in subsequent years it was NCLB that found itself being transformed, and ultimately eviscerated, by powerful
political blowback from unions and the intransigence of the districts.
But as the political candidacy of former Chief Judge of the B.C. Provincial Court Carol Baird Ellan is showing, there is a serious danger
of political blowback against the bench as an institution when one exchanges her black judicial robes for the Blue, Red or Orange colours of a political party.
Constantly changing tests (or using tests as a convenient scapegoat when
political blowback against Common Core gets too strong) is a policy response that undermines the goals of standards - based reform in all the ways I have identified above.
Business leaders are likely worried
about political blowback, or being accused of exerting undue influence on public officials.
Had the court struck down all or part of the law, there would have been
massive political blowback from the media, Congress, and the White House itself.
A recently fired Southold Town police officer filed a wrongful termination lawsuit this week against Southold Town, claiming that «high - profile arrests» he made during his tenure as a cop
caused political blowback that led to his termination last month.
Meanwhile, Xi has pursued a significant anticorruption policy that carries a serious risk
of political blowback.
Now,
the political blowback over fiscal policy theatrics has been serious enough for both Republicans and Democrats that they might have both decided to drop that strategy.
There were several situations — most notably, the July 2016 press conference where he made lengthy, editorial comments about Clinton's choices, for which his agency had decided not to indict her — where he ought to have taken his lumps and kept his mouth shut, despite
the political blowback he expected would befall the FBI.
Put simply, I believe it's frankly hard to justify holding most individual biotech stocks for especially long periods of time because of the rather limited lifespan of their products, and
the political blowback over drug prices in the United States.
At the same,
the political blowback from exposing said fact tends to blunt said money's impact.
Cuomo had vocalized support for the Dream Act — which makes undocumented immigrants eligible for state tuition assistance programs — but did little last year, likely recognizing
the political blowback for the measure upstate.
The political blowback from the Gulf might still hit Brazil, but in a nation that has described its new oil bounty as a «second independence,» the engineers and geophysicists trump the Cassandras.
A successful turnaround CEO for the school system will need the full backing of the mayor and full authority to make decisions, regardless of
political blowback.
What the authors didn't anticipate, however, was
the political blowback from this pressure.