Commentary: Congress might have to actually cough up for everything it promises to pay for. Imagine that
by Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times
Dec 12, 2019
3 minutes
Republicans have never had the votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and their futile efforts to "defund Obamacare" in 2013 - which they also did not have the votes to do - led to a pointless government shutdown. (I would have described the shutdown as "lengthy," but President Trump has set a new standard for that word when it comes to pointless government shutdowns.)
All they did manage to do was deny funding for a
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