The House GOP has announced a plan to enact 74 billion in cuts. This is a small amount but its a start. This follows Rand Paul’s 500 Billion dollar in cuts proposals. These proposals are moving in the right direction, but they have a bigger target. Majority leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) has announced that the GOP will target Obamacare for defunding. Since they can’t repeal the bill due to The Democrats control of the Senate and Obama’s veto pen, they just will not appropriate money for it.
If House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) gets his way, Obamacare may die due to lack of funding.
The House has already voted to repeal the measure and a federal judge ruled it unconstitutional.
Nevertheless, Democrats are determined to see it fully implemented.
Senate Republicans failed to repeal the law when Minority Leader Mitch McConnell added it to an aviation bill as an amendment.
But the Virginia Republican told CNS News Tuesday that “one way or the other” there would be no funding for Obamacare in the upcoming continuing resolution that will keep the government funded through fiscal year 2011.
Read the rest: Republicans will defund Obamacare ‘one way or the other’
Good on the part of the Republicans. Clearly they have heeded the message of the American people. We don’t want this Eugenics based Obamacare nonsense. With their proposals to cut off federal funding of abortion, no bailouts for pensions, the 74 Billion in cuts and defunding Obamacare, they are showing real spine.
I hope they take on Tax and regulatory reform next. Budget cuts are good, but we need incentives for investments which lead to job creation. This is the first time since the Reagan years and briefly in 1995 that GOP is addressing economic concerns. They seem to be going back towards their roots.
Tags: Budget Cuts, Eric Cantor, Eugenics, Obamacare
