The Choctaw Native Americans hoped they would be able to keep their land because of the "Indian Removal Act," authorized by President Andrew Jackson on May 28th, 1830. It said that, "Lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within the existing state borders."
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Indian.html
Paradox; a statement or proposition that, despite sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.
Oxymoron; a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
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Answer: entangled
Explanation:
Mired has several meanings but in this case it refers to being entangled.
The scenario above tells of a situation where an Act to provide for better healthcare to Veterans, the VA Mission Act, had not been passed due to budgetary issues.
In using the word ''mired'', the author wanted to describe that the Act had not been passed because it had been entangled in budgetary disputes between different parties.
D) Dictionary of... because it is just the facts right no opinions
