The White House said Wednesday that the GOP was engaged in "essentially an all-out civil war" and accused Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) of bending to "the will" of a small group of House conservatives after deciding to press forward with a government funding bill that would strip funds for ObamaCare.
"What has become more and more apparent is the leaders of the Republican Party in Congress may want to avoid a shutdown ... but there are members of that party, especially in the House, who seem to embrace the prospect," press secretary Jay Carney said.
Earlier Wednesday, Boehner said the House would vote on a continuing resolution that would keep the government open — if the Affordable Care act was defunded.
The move was an about-face for House leadership, which initially recommended a plan that would have forced the Senate to take a vote on defunding Obamacare but did not link that requirement to a spending bill. But conservative backbenchers in the party revolted at the symbolic gesture, demanding leadership marry ObamaCare funding directly to funding.
The White House used that shift Wednesday to argue that Republicans needed to assert their leadership to avoid a financial crisis.
"Republicans in the Congress need to make a decision about what outcomes they really desire here," Carney said.
Via: The Hill
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