State and local officials will also be prohibited from formally cooperating with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement under the agreement.

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    I mostly meant it tongue-in-cheeck. I also don’t really consider social safety nets, equality, and fairness to be “big” government personally.

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        Generally when people say big government they mean excessive, intrusive, overbearing, controlling. I would rather the focus be on fairness, equality, safety, justice; and to achieve that you do need a “big government” with highly qualified people leveraging science and evidence to drive decision making. But a large government doesn’t have to imply violating personal autonomy, privacy, etc. /shrug