{"id":505536,"date":"2010-04-02T13:37:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T17:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81303"},"modified":"2010-04-02T13:37:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T17:37:51","slug":"gop-rep-we-can-de-fund-health-care-reform-instead-of-repealing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/505536","title":{"rendered":"GOP Rep: We Can De-Fund Health Care Reform Instead of Repealing It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheboyganpress.com\/article\/20100402\/SHE0101\/4020446\/1973\/SHE0204\">Rep. Tom Petri (R-Wis.)<\/a> to the roster of Republicans hedging a bit on whether the party can repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Petri said Republicans don&#8217;t have to repeal the health care plan. They could effectively quash it by refusing to fund the initiatives as each one comes before Congress for authorization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president can&#8217;t spend money unless it&#8217;s appropriated by the Congress,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-81303\"><\/span>As Donny Shaw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencongress.org\/articles\/view\/1780-McCain-We-Will-Defund-Health-Care-Reform\">pointed out<\/a> when Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) argued for this strategy, &#8220;refusing to fund&#8221; is harder than it sounds &#8212; the president can veto appropriations bills just as easily as he can veto a &#8220;repeal&#8221; bill. And teeing up entitlement cuts for a Democratic president to veto &#8212; well, that&#8217;s a fight Democrats would enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add Rep. Tom Petri (R-Wis.) to the roster of Republicans hedging a bit on whether the party can repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Petri said Republicans don&#8217;t have to repeal the health care plan. They could effectively quash it by refusing to fund the initiatives as each one comes before Congress for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}