Sounds like the payments are unconstitutional. If they are not a part of the law but are part of executive action, then they did not originate with Congress. But maybe I am missing something. If Congress did not include the subsidies in Obamacare, then President Trump stopping the payments is not his fault but the fault of Congress for not being honest when passing the albatross.
I believe the Republicans originally sued over these payments, saying that they were unconstitutional because they didn’t originate in the house. I don’t know what happened to that lawsuit.
was there a ruling that they are indeed unconstitutional?
Obamacare is UnConstitutional.
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Sounds like the payments are unconstitutional. If they are not a part of the law but are part of executive action, then they did not originate with Congress. But maybe I am missing something. If Congress did not include the subsidies in Obamacare, then President Trump stopping the payments is not his fault but the fault of Congress for not being honest when passing the albatross.
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COURSE the payments are unconstitutional; course the argument on ‘origination’ is 20 steps PAST root of illegality anyway (no Const authority, welfare violating 5th/13th, etc.)
IIRC, the (R) ‘sued’ on the same (again, using step 20+) and left it as “Well, we TRIED to do *something*....”