What was unexpected about President George W. Bush’s support for programs like No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part D? Choose 1

Choose 1

(Choice A)

A

Both programs left key policy decisions up to the states, and as a politician Bush had generally favored a stronger central government.

(Choice B)

B

Bush's wife, Laura, strongly opposed both programs, leading to an unusual policy rift between the First Lady and the president.

(Choice C, Checked)

C

Those two pieces of legislation were much more aligned with traditional liberal policies that expanded federal spending, running counter to his conservative philosophy.

C. Those two pieces of legislation were much more aligned with traditional liberal policies that expanded federal spending, running counter to his conservative philosophy.

Explanation:

No Child Left Behind Act was passed into law in January 2002, while Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act was passed into law in December 2003, both programs were considered to be liberal policies, which is often associated with the Democrats party. However, since George Bush is of Republican party, and Republican party are characterized by their conservative policies. The two pieces of legislation we're considered to be unexpected coming from George Bush, which is seen as a contradiction to the conservative policies associated with Republicans.

Hence, What was unexpected about President George W. Bush’s support for programs like No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part D is that, those two pieces of legislation were much more aligned with traditional liberal policies that expanded federal spending, running counter to his conservative philosophy.

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the berlin blockade was an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, in 1948–49, to force the western allied powers (the united states, the united kingdom, and france) to abandon their post-world war ii jurisdictions in west berlin. in march 1948 the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. in protest, the soviet representative withdrew from the allied control council. coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in west berlin (as throughout west germany), which the soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the allies, the soviet occupation forces in eastern germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west. on june 24 the soviets announced that the four-power administration of berlin had ceased and that the allies no longer had any rights there.