political football

noun

: an issue that politicians argue about and try to use for their advantage

This issue is too important to be treated as a political football.

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Eggs prices became a political football during last year’s election, where President Trump vowed to begin lowering grocery prices immediately. —

Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025 Unfortunately, immigration reform in America has long been sidelined by Congress, used as little more than a political football. —

Joanie Schirm, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2025 With President Trump in power again, however, advocates are once again worried that the BWCAW, one of the most pristine landscapes in the Lower 48, could return to becoming a political football. —

Ryan Krogh, Outside Online, 24 Jan. 2025 Meanwhile, back at United Nations headquarters in Turtle Bay, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Alice Wairimu Nderitu has likewise become something of a political football herself. —

Johanna Berkman, airmail.news, 2 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for political football

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