“The threat of a government shutdown intensified Tuesday as House Republican leaders moved toward stripping funding from President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative and setting up a stalemate with the Democratic Senate,” the Washington Post says. “House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) had hoped to keep the government open past Sept. 30 with relatively little fuss. But roughly 40 conservatives revolted. After a strategy session Tuesday, Boehner and his leadership team were being pushed into a more confrontational strategy that would fund the government into the new fiscal year only if Democrats agreed to undermine Obama’s signature legislative achievement.” We’ll repeat that again: The effort only would fund the government if the health-care law is defunded. NBC’s Frank Thorp adds that if House Republicans agree on this strategy, they could vote on it as soon as Friday.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 01:24:30 +0000