House Republicans said Monday they will try to pass a stopgap spending bill that will fund Obamacare, but will delay the individual mandate requiring all Americans to obtain insurance, and will cancel the taxpayer subsidies lawmakers use to pay for their own health plans.
The House was pushing to vote in the late evening on the new plan, which they said would keep government open past a midnight Monday deadline.
But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has already said he will reject those provisions, leaving the two chambers no closer to a solution that would keep the government open.
“We are not going to change Obamacare,” Mr. Reid told reporters minutes after he led his chamber to kill two other Republican plans, one of which would have been a full one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act and the other which would have repealed the law’s unpopular medical device tax
The Senate’s 54-46 vote broke along party lines, suggesting that despite the misgivings of some Republicans, they are still maintaining unity in the face of a government shutdown.
The latest House offer has been brewing for some days, as Republicans insist there be some conditions attached to the stopgap spending bill. Democrats have said they will not accept any condition.
Sen. David Vitter, Louisiana Republican, said that those in Washington deserve to feel the same pain as the American people if Obamacare is not repealed.
“If [the government shuts down] because Democrats won’t accept treating Washington like it treats America, I think that’s a message that’s important for all Americans to hear,” Mr. Vitter told reporters Monday afternoon.
Via: Washington Times
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