congress is not being presented with a choice.
even trump is not being presented with a full choice. read the article. it says “Trump said his administration may not have the legal authority to make cost-sharing reduction payments, ...”
so the article’s author appears to take the point of view that trump should violate the law.
i note also that there does not appear to be a comments forum for the article. the only thing a reader can do besides read it is to share it. so the article seems to position itself as a form of propaganda.
what am i missing?
Republicans need to hold the line. Above all else, hold the line!
Obamacare was passed without a single Republican vote, and considerable subterfuge (cornhusker kickback, al franken fraudulent election, not to mention an illegal alien president). To lend any support to Obamacare negates all of the honest work of holding the line that Republicans have done since 2010.
Any breach of that line by any republican will be viewed by republican voters as complicit with all of that dishonesty.
Republicans can and should simply let obamacare die on the vine. this type of article will be typical of the type of propaganda thrown up by Democrats in their own defense of passing a program that was designed from the outset to fail.
Remember, Obamacare was sold by Democrats on the premise that it was the be all and end all of health insurance bills. If it starts to fail, let the Democrats propose a solution. Why should the burden of fixing Obamacare fall upon Republicans?
Republicans can swoop in with some kind of Obamacare replacement once its failure becomes apparent to all. Providence knows, the US public is so stupid that Republicans feel compelled to wait until the obvious is upon them.