Nonstarter

After the box office nonstarter The Day the Earth Stood Still in 2008, Reeves switched gears as an actor.

Although Republicans had initially floated the idea of attaching work requirements to Medicaid as well, President Joe Biden has indicated the idea is a nonstarter while showing a willingness to entertain the other proposals.

Biden has suggested he might be open to considering it, but Democrats in Congress have said is a nonstarter.

Congressional Democrats the legislation as a nonstarter, pointing to the massive impact it would have on federal programs related to housing, education, healthcare, climate, and other critical areas.

McCarthy has been adamant that any increase to the nation's borrowing authority be paired with spending cuts, a nonstarter with Democrats.

The effort by McCaul is a nonstarter for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a defense hawk who opposed the Kaine-Young legislation.

At the same time, Johnson rejected a bipartisan Senate border security package but has been unable to advance Republicans’ own proposal which is a nonstarter in the Senate.

That’s a nonstarter for many Democrats.

The diocese’s latest offer to the borough to resolve the issue was a nonstarter, Duff said.

An inter-divisional trade is usually a nonstarter, but this could be an exception.

Pelosi and top House Democrats, meanwhile, are insisting that any major drug price deal authorize the government to directly negotiate drug prices — a longtime liberal priority that's a nonstarter with Republicans.

There have been some discussions — the NFLPA considered a proposal to put 35% of salaries in escrow a nonstarter — but nothing close to an agreement.

Until fairly recently, cancellation was considered to be a fringe idea that, while popular among the Occupy Wall Street crowd and on the left, was a mainstream nonstarter.

But that idea is a nonstarter in a Senate controlled by Republicans, as even Mr. Murphy concedes.

A committee in its House of Representatives just approved a bill to allow state lawmakers to nullify federal law — a nonstarter, constitutionally.

But the proposed legal immigration changes have made the plan a virtual nonstarter with the other side of the aisle.

He has yet to provide a plan to wrest such compensation and Mexico's president and president-elect both reject the notion as a nonstarter.

Not long ago, centrist Democrats said that a single-payer health care system was a political nonstarter.

President Donald Trump has long demanded $5 billion for the construction of a wall (or other barrier) along the US-Mexico border, a proposal that is a nonstarter with Democrats, who Trump needs in order to pass a bill in the Senate.

Progress may be an uphill battle as the US demands Canada lower trade barriers in its dairy market, which has been a nonstarter for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.