As long as I can remember, every time Republicans just try to reduce the rate of growth of something as innocuous as the school lunch program, they get a press flogging until they relent.
Not funding healthcare after it was passed, and shortly after they get a small majority would be brutal.
This must be stopped any way possible...because getting rid of it will be impossible.
As John Kerry once famously said, reducing a planned increase is a cut. That’s Liberal Math for you.
The Media controls the message and most people are clueless.