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The Senate agreed but Rivas, who had warned that his caucus needed time to get behind a deal, ultimately refused to take the bill up for a vote in the final days of session, as the two houses squabbled between each other.

In Rancho Palos Verdes, Trump has repeatedly squabbled with locals planting a row of ficus trees without authorization to block the sight of homes he thought were ugly, and battling the California Coastal Commission and the city for a decade over a 70-foot flag pole he erected without a permit.

As the oil industry lobbied heavily against the proposal, Democrats in the Assembly and Senate squabbled over how to move forward.

The lawyers squabbled over the agreement, could not come to a resolution and the deal fell apart.

For months, while US politicians have squabbled over support for Ukraine, soldiers have struggled to defend their front lines from the Russian advance because of a shortage of shells, rockets and air defences.