Try as they might, House Republican leaders are having trouble stopping their colleagues from shooting themselves in the foot — again.
Having failed to approve any of the 12 annual appropriations bills that fund federal agencies, Congress has to pass a stopgap spending bill by Sept. 30 to keep much of the federal government from shutting down. But rank-and-file Republicans in the House are resisting their leadership’s proposed stopgap because it wouldn’t necessarily block funding for the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare.
Opponents of the Affordable Care Act don’t have the votes to repeal it in the Senate, and even if they did, they couldn’t override a certain veto by President Obama. Nevertheless, a large faction in the House wants to hold funding for the rest of the government hostage until Democrats agree to stop implementing Obamacare.


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