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BREAKING: Obama Just Dropped The Hammer On Republicans In Congress With One Move
President Barack Obama vetoed legislation that would have repealed much of Obamacare, which marked the first time such a measure has reached his desk since the law was passed in 2010. The legislation would have also defunded Planned Parenthood.
The president wrote in a veto message to Congress regarding his decision, “Because of the harm this bill would cause to the health and financial security of millions of Americans, it has earned my veto.”
The president claimed, “Republicans in the Congress have attempted to repeal or undermine the Affordable Care Act over 50 times.”
The measure was passed using budget reconciliation, the means employed by Democrats in 2010 to pass the Affordable Care Act. Reconciliation measures are filibuster-proof in the Senate.
“Now, is someone named Obama going to sign a bill into law repealing ObamaCare? Of course not,” Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Thursday. “But we have now demonstrated that, if we elect a Republican president, we can use this same path to repeal ObamaCare without 60 votes in the Senate.”
#Obamacare will be gone—it’s just a matter of time. https://t.co/p1uGcVeAYE https://t.co/nQb2IrtZ9v
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) January 8, 2016
“The idea that Obamacare is the law of the land for good is a myth,” Ryan added in a video he shared on Friday. “This law will collapse under its own weight or it will be repealed.”
MORE: President Obama vetoes Republicans’ closest effort yet to repeal #Obamacare https://t.co/6PlbB4c5vf pic.twitter.com/6WXbiAmuta — Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 8, 2016
“The veto was the eighth of Obama’s presidency and the sixth since last year, when Republicans took over both chambers of Congress,” The Hill reported.
The president in his veto message also acknowledged the reconciliation bill would also “effectively defund Planned Parenthood,” which he argued provides important health services.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, which has been a strong advocate for defunding Planned Parenthood issued the following statement from Senior Counsel Casey Mattox:
The president has chosen to continue funding for the abortion giant that helped get him elected rather than expand health care choices for women. All he has done is kill an historic bill that would have redirected existing funding from the scandal-plagued Planned Parenthood to thousands of better, low-cost community health care providers that serve women and families far more comprehensively.
It is past time to end the government’s immoral partnership with Planned Parenthood that has been forced upon the American people.
h/t: CNN
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-obama-just-dropped-the-hammer-on-republicans-in-congress-with-one-move/
