RedCounty.com is featuring a new video from House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) highlighting Republican efforts to repeal and defund the job-destroying health care law – including upcoming legislation to repeal “mandatory spending slush funds in ObamaCare.” Watch Boehner here:
Since January, the new House majority has voted to fully repeal the $2.6 trillion ObamaCare law; to defund the law as part of H.R. 1; and to repeal the job-destroying 1099 small business mandate. The House has also started the process of replacing the health care law with common-sense solutions that would protect jobs and bring down costs for families and small businesses.
RedCounty noted yesterday that the upcoming effort to repeal ObamaCare’s slush funds is “part of a broad assault on wasteful mandatory spending programs that began last week with passage of two bills saving taxpayers as much as $9 billion.” One of last week’s bills, for example, began the process of shutting down the TARP bailout program. There’s a similar bill on the House floor this week that makes additional cuts – and there are many more to come.
Why aren’t these slush funds repealed in today’s short-term continuing resolution? Because, RedCounty explains, continuing resolutions “can only be used for discretionary spending cuts and not changes to mandatory spending accounts.” In other words, it would require “resorting to Pelosi-style rules abuses of the sort that enraged Americans last year” – remember “we have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it?”
Repealing this wasteful mandatory spending can happen without resorting to the sorts of abuses Speaker Boehner and the new majority pledged to end. In the video, Speaker Boehner said, “[i]f the Senate won’t join us in passing a bill that repeals ObamaCare all at once, we will work to repeal it step-by-step” and “do everything we can to stop this gravy train and ensure this job-crushing health care law is never fully implemented.” Read more onRedCounty.com.
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