Uh.... President Reagan may have said this but I think that by any protocol, it's required that the person who originally said it gets credited.
“Trumphradites”, why the need to use that term?
And who determines what constitutes "remaining budget neutral"? And if (in the EXTREMELY UNLIKELY event) it is determined that HHS violated "budget neutrality", what is going to be done about it, and by whom?
The law only matters if it is obeyed and enforced. As we have seen many times the current inhabitant of the White House chooses which laws he will obey and enforce.
As to actually limiting spending, has there been an audit of this administration? Every day we a treated to Obama saying he is going to spend a billion here for some project and give a few billion to some country or international organization. Does Congress, or anyone else, know if this administration isn’t simply just spending money whether or not there is an appropriation?
A public corporation by law reconciles its books monthly during the closing process and files statements quarterly with the SEC. Its annual financial statements are audited by independent auditing firms. Does anyone know if the federal government ever reconciles its books or does it just keep collecting, borrowing and spending money?
When the time comes, Obama will ignore this...and Congress will gleefully go along.
Very difficult to read beyond the name calling
While RINOs might be insulting, it is a true characterization of people who have harmed this nation by supporting and enabling Clinton bush Obama after being hired to do the opposite
Where this name you use for Trump supporters insinuates something wrong with Trump supported, a majority of the conservative bar, by the way, that you alienate, who have good intentions for this country
It’s outrageous
Maybe they should try making all federal spending budget neutral for a while to see how that would work.
The RINOs aiding and abetting the goal of single payer healthcare.
If the ‘benefit’ claimed by the author is “it restricts the Corporate Risk Reduction program under HHS from using general fund $ for bailouts” it is an unintentional mistake by the RINO Ryan.
So, if Obama is forced earlier than necessary to call foul and let some exchanges go bankrupt, it will just force the overall Democrat call-to-single-payer all the earlier. The bill is spending more money than we earn, it doesn’t reduce entitlements, and even though it funds the military, Obama is using the military to help Iran and ISIS, IMO.
We got screwed and didn’t even get a kiss.
Rubio is a weasel & the author is shameless in bashing Trump & promoting Rubio ..... that being said, I have to give credit to Rubio for doing this. Of all the damage that could be done to Obamacare, cutting off the insurance company bailouts via taxpayer (i.e. unlimited) funds is causing Obamacare to implode. United Healthcare suggested strongly they might not be in the market next year ... this assures it. Other companies will drop like flies. Obamacare required the bailout to be revenue neutral, but Obama/HHS were going to ignore that; however, now they are they are forced to adhere to the law. I am somewhat shocked Rubio’s prohibitive language survived in a spending bill that gave Obama the keys to the treasury, but it’s a very good thing.
That was already the law. We could have had that with a continuing resolution and saved money ...
This is just a puff piece for the Rube and his
Rubidiotic supporters affectionately called Rubidiots.
A flimsy attempt to portray Rubio as the sneaky little
runt that he is, but in a good light.
HOORAY! More hope and change from “lawmakers”. /s
Gang of 536 (CONgre$$ and POSOTUS) should be in prison.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.
“The Law” - Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
Darn. I read “re” as “in”...
“excess profits”
Fascist Alert!!!!
Who the hell gets to define “excess profits”???????!!!!!!?????
The untrustworthy thing about 1000 page bills is that it says whatever you want it to say. It may say no new tax money for exchanges on page 743 but prove to me it doesn’t unsay that on page 525 and 893.
and now for something completely different......
RE: David Catron
the line dividing East Tennessee from South west Virginia also divides the Ketrons from the Catrons. In Tennessee, in Bloomingdale, along the very old road present from the beginning in the late 1700’s and Daniel Boone, live the Ketrons. Across the Holston river in Virginia, along the same very old road live the Catrons.
I don’t know what pissed them off but there was tumult such that they couldn’t stand to have the same name even though they had the same blood
Spectator pimps Rubio....hmmmmmm
Oh, so the Republicans will shut down the government if its not neutral. I get it
At first I thought it was “Lethal Injection for Obama”. But... never mind.
Uh.... President Reagan may have said this but I think that by any protocol, it's required that the person who originally said it gets credited.