In other words, he's, like, talking at cross purposes to the budget he actually submitted.
While certainly complementary, the two understandings can also work at cross purposes.
Again, these two tendencies are not mutually exclusive, but policy responses to risks to and risks through can sometimes work at cross purposes.
After years of working at cross purposes, the result was one of the most productive collaborations between the public and private sectors in American history.
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While at the moment, the U.S. and Russia seem to be working at cross purposes on this and other issues, Trenin of the Moscow Carnegie Center says there is one thing that unites them.
The non-responsiveness of the economy might be because the various policies are at cross-purposes at one another or that all the policies are in error, or some mix.
On the other hand, global economic distress doesn't invariably work at cross-purposes with American interests.
Even when we act with what we believe to be the best of intentions, our efforts are often at cross-purposes with our goals.
The minutes ticked away to years as the Bosnian crisis claimed many thousands of lives, got Europeans themselves at cross-purposes and all but ruptured the transatlantic alliance.
Concerned about reports that the Pakistani military is working at cross-purposes and, in some cases, aiding the Taliban, Congress is trying to condition the money on progress made by Pakistani forces in rooting out extremists.
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