Defunding the Already Pre-Funded Obamacare
One largely unknown fact is that $6-billion or more was immediately appropriated in the new law and approximately $105-billion more was appropriated for FY2011 and beyond. That violates the typical Congressional process of appropriations. The normal process typically involves enacting authorization bills that authorize spending, and then follows those with separate legislation that actually appropriates the money. This enables those to be balanced with other spending decisions. The PPACA contained large authorizations for future appropriations as well as containing these actual appropriations. That made it quite different from most bills, even major legislation.
To any who do not realize that over $105-billion has already been appropriated to fund Obamacare, I direct your attention to the February 10, 2011, revision of the Congressional Research Services paper, Appropriations and Fund Transfers in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), CRS number R41301. It documents the specific provisions that Im discussing and the magnitude of those advance appropriations.
I’m aware that stuff has been appropriated in advance. At the same time none of that stuff is up for inclusion in the continuing resolution. We have to take over the government to get rid of the ObamaKKKare stuff.