The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president’s healthcare law.
The money is only part of the IRS’s total implementation spending, and it is being provided outside the normal appropriations process. The tax agency is responsible for several key provisions of the new law, including the unpopular individual mandate.
Republican lawmakers have tried to cut off funding to implement the healthcare law, at least until after the Supreme Court decides whether to strike it down. That ruling is expected by June, and oral arguments last week indicated the justices might well overturn at least the individual mandate, if not the whole law.
“While President Obama and his Senate allies continue to spend more tax dollars implementing an unpopular and unworkable law that may very well be struck down as unconstitutional in a matter of months, I’ll continue to stand with the American people who want to repeal this law and replace it with something that will actually address the cost of healthcare,” said Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.), who chairs the House Appropriations subcommittee for healthcare and is in a closely contested Senate race this year.
The Obama administration has plowed ahead despite the legal and political challenges.
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Talk about "audacity"!!! Obama is a socialist, communist, dictator! He really thinks he is a dictator. The IRS should reject the funding until things are finalized by the SCOTUS.
STOP SPENDING OUR MONEY!!!! Get the economy, deficit and jobs fixed before you go off and spend more!!! What a maniacal way of 'leadership'!
Obama is an idiot.Only people like Democrats make him seem intelligent because they too are ignorant and without any common sense. Look who is in Obama's corner: REID, PELOSI, SOROS, CLINTON, HOLDER, BILL AYERS, and any other moron with an education of 5th grade or less.IMPEACH this wanna be before he destroys this country entirely. He is a Muslim, he advocates destruction to permit a dictatorship and has no idea how to run a country, other than ruin a country.
Just when I thought the racist right couldn't sink any lower….Who am I kidding, they are lower than scum, lower than dirt, lower than excrement!.
Obama actually helped out more Americans than Bush, can you give a good reason for impeachment? Presidents are NOT supreme overlords! How is our country more at risk when Obama took out many terrorist leaders and helps overthrow some selfish leaders? Our country has the most powerful military and friends in the world, it would take Russia and China together to even pose a real threat.
There is no impeachable offense. Besides, if GWB can lie to Congress about wmds to start a war and avoid impeachment as a war criminal Obama at least doesn’t have that kind of blood on his hands.
The Republicon political strategy is to destroy Americans jobs and the lives of American families. This must be a first, a major political party actually campaigning on programs to make America fail. It's amazing.
What you scumbags are are racists, bigots and extremist planning to misinform voters and paint Obama as an evil dictator muslim.
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