Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin warned conservatives on Sunday evening that they should be wary of a potential move from House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to fund Obamacare in a Continuing Resolution (CR) at the last minute as the fiscal year is ending.
“I think that when we are dealing with people who have continually and repeatedly made backroom deals and voted under the cover of darkness over and over and over and over, that we have to expect that that’s what they’re going to do again,” Martin said in an appearance on Breitbart News Sunday with Stephen K. Bannon on Sunday night. “We must watch and keep the pressure on and do everything that we can to make sure that does not happen.”
Technically, unless Cantor abruptly ends a long-planned scheduled recess week as he has publicly suggested he might, there are only five working days for the House left in September before the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30. At that time, Congress needs to pass a new CR and the president needs to sign it or the government will shut down.
“On Tuesday when the House of Representatives gets back in [from the weekend], they’re going to have to make a decision very quickly,” Martin said. “There are only five legislative days left. They have this week from Tuesday to Friday. They’re out next week. And then they have one more day before we hit October 1, and October 1 is when our new fiscal year starts for government.”
Last week, Cantor tried to allow a House vote defunding ObamaCare but written in a manner that would allow the Senate to quickly restore the funding for the president’s healthcare law, according to a document obtained by Breitbart News. However, within 24 hours of a Tea Party Patriots Exempt America rally on Capitol Hill, Cantor withdrew the proposal.
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