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Statement on Trump Administration's Decision Regarding Obamacare Payments
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Posted on 10/12/2017 8:52:33 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Press Release Statement on Trump Administration's Decision Regarding Obamacare Payments October 12, 2017|Speaker Ryan's Press Office

WASHINGTON–House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) today issued the following statement regarding the Trump administration’s determination that certain payments under Obamacare have no valid appropriation:

“Under our Constitution, the power of the purse belongs to Congress, not the executive branch. It was in defense of this foundational principle that the House, under the leadership of former speaker John Boehner, voted in 2014 to challenge the constitutionality of spending by the Obama administration that was never approved by Congress. The House was validated last year when a federal court ruled that the Obama administration had indeed been making unauthorized and therefore illegal payments through Obamacare. Today’s decision by the Trump administration to end the appeal of that ruling preserves a monumental affirmation of Congress’s authority and the separation of powers. Obamacare has proven itself to be a fatally flawed law, and the House will continue to work with Trump administration to provide the American people a better system.”


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 115th; aca; obamacare; speakerryan
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To: ForYourChildren

Because Democrats are the party of Stalin and Republicans are the party of Rockefeller.

These are country club Republicans or as my father called them, Democrats.


41 posted on 10/13/2017 5:47:49 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
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To: rawcatslyentist
Under our Constitution, the power of the purse belongs to Congress, not the executive branch.

You owe us 8 year of back pay for non job performance then!

BULLS EYE!!

42 posted on 10/13/2017 6:56:11 AM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: trebb

thanks. i see that now...


43 posted on 10/13/2017 7:57:58 AM PDT by stylin19a (Lynch & Clinton - Snakes on a Plane)
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To: stylin19a

No problem - saw a few folks getting upset and opted to just explain - usually pretty abrasive myself, but once a year or so I show my sweet inner self....


44 posted on 10/13/2017 8:18:01 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Hilarious.


45 posted on 10/13/2017 8:46:49 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Sub-Driver

46 posted on 10/13/2017 8:53:28 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Now, that Trump is kicking their asses, they, ______________, want to quit. (Fill in the blank!))
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To: usconservative
when will he be held accountable?

The day the Publishers Clearing House shows up at my house with that big check.

47 posted on 10/13/2017 9:10:20 AM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: dinodino
What’s the problem? This is what we want!

You're right. Ryan's not the real problem although he's not much help. The real problem lies with McConnell and the rest of the GOP Senate.

48 posted on 10/13/2017 9:38:04 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: rdcbn

“The government covers the completely uncontrolled losses to the insurance companies to make sure they turn a profit by stealing investor dividend money from Fannie May and Freddie Mac “Not any more.


49 posted on 10/13/2017 11:04:55 AM PDT by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall.”)
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To: Sub-Driver

Bump


50 posted on 10/13/2017 2:54:27 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: SpaceBar

Keep dreaming. Obama will never go to jail. Better to destroy Obama’s legacy by fighting for our Constitution,


51 posted on 10/13/2017 11:19:33 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: dadfly

Please pay attention. This specifically WASN’T funded. President Obama ordered the money spent anyway. That was the point of Ryan’s comments in support of President Trump’s action.

As far as Obamacare en total, you are wrong, they could have only defunded it if the Senate passed the same and the President (at that time Obama) signed it into law. The House can’t defund something unilaterally. It also fell under the category of mandatory spending which is why it continued without a budget during the government shutdown.


52 posted on 10/14/2017 8:43:34 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: trebb; stylin19a

Except in this case, Congress did specifically defund these payments - Obama ordered the payments to be made anyway.


53 posted on 10/14/2017 8:45:24 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Tuketu
This doesn't have anything to do with what you're talking about.

This was about Obama authorizing payments...on his own.

54 posted on 10/14/2017 9:14:33 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SpaceBar

This House/Senate origination is a back and forth thing and both chambers write their own “proposal”...and fight it out until they both pass what is a compromise bill.


55 posted on 10/14/2017 9:19:34 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Republican Wildcat

i believe you are incorrect.

your statement: “ The House can’t defund something unilaterally.”

my answer is that they most certainly can.

Article !, Sect 7: “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”

my reading of that section, is where I stand on my criticism of boehner that the House. they simply could have omitted ocare from the budget.


56 posted on 10/14/2017 10:44:45 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: Republican Wildcat

And the Congress did nothing along legal means when Obama “ordered” those illegal payments.


57 posted on 10/15/2017 2:58:05 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Repeal The 17th

His name was mentioned. That is enough to get the pack of Pavlov’s dogs howling.


58 posted on 10/15/2017 9:38:08 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: j.havenfarm; Sub-Driver

The explanation for the comments is simple, whenever Ryan or McConnell says or does something they are attacked, because they are source of all evil in the world and can do no right.


59 posted on 10/16/2017 6:00:09 PM PDT by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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