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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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Why do we pay these people?
1 posted on 10/12/2017 8:52:33 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

I’d pay them to just go home and never come back.


2 posted on 10/12/2017 8:56:22 PM PDT by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd [PBUH---Pigblood be upon him]; Charles Martel for President)
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This is the ideal situation for Paul Ryan. Someone else takes the initiative and he immediately falls into place right behind them, taking credit for it as much as possible, but none of the responsibility. It’s called Leading from Behind, and he is very good at it. Which is why the voters in his home district send him back to Congress with 70+% margins.


3 posted on 10/12/2017 8:56:25 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Sub-Driver

(Scrappy Doo voice) "I'll show that Mr. Trump! Let me at 'em Uncle Scooby!"

4 posted on 10/12/2017 8:56:30 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.
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But they couldn’t be bothered to stop DACA in 2012 when they should have sued to stop it.

CANTORIZE YOUR WEASELS, AMERICA!


5 posted on 10/12/2017 8:56:50 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Sub-Driver

this is a good thing, no ?


6 posted on 10/12/2017 8:57:10 PM PDT by stylin19a (Lynch & Clinton - Snakes on a Plane)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

GIF of the year nominee!


7 posted on 10/12/2017 8:59:05 PM PDT by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: Sub-Driver
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.

Meanwhile, the Senate RINOs will continue to vote thumbs down to what the House and President Trump want to do.

8 posted on 10/12/2017 9:03:51 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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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.

When's Obama going to jail? He broke the law as President, when will he be held accountable?

9 posted on 10/12/2017 9:05:34 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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“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.”
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It sounds to me like the speaker approves.
Why all the angst?


10 posted on 10/12/2017 9:06:03 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: stylin19a

It is. Don’t understand the
Comments here


11 posted on 10/12/2017 9:12:33 PM PDT by j.havenfarm ( 1,000 Posts as of 8/11/17! Still not shutting up after all these years!)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Ryan is getting onboard the Trump train. It’s the Senate, McConnell, Collins, McCain Murkowski that are blocking Trump’s agenda.


12 posted on 10/12/2017 9:18:50 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

For a second, I thought that was a picture of Anthony Weiner.


13 posted on 10/12/2017 9:19:28 PM PDT by pinkandgreenmom
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To: stylin19a
this is a good thing, no ?

Yes. It is a good thing.

14 posted on 10/12/2017 9:20:54 PM PDT by plain talk
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Ah...never. Our vaunted “leaders” will see to that.


15 posted on 10/12/2017 9:21:17 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Ocare was ruled a TAX by the SCOTUS All tax bills must ORIGINATE in the HOUSE. Since Ocare originated in the Senate, the law is unconstitutional. Something SCOTUS omitted; time for another appeal.

The Origination Clause, sometimes called the Revenue Clause, is part of the United States Constitution. This clause says that all bills for raising revenue must start in the House of Representatives, but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as in the case of other bills


16 posted on 10/12/2017 9:29:50 PM PDT by Tuketu (The Dim Platform is splinters bound by crazy glue. TRUMP is the solvent.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I hear that he can do a lot of those funny flailing pull-ups too.


17 posted on 10/12/2017 9:32:03 PM PDT by oblomov
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what a credit seeking, toadying, “liddle” hypocrite you are ryan. you, cantor and boehner could have constitutionally defunded obamacare anytime after 2010.


18 posted on 10/12/2017 9:33:27 PM PDT by dadfly
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What’s the problem? This is what we want!


19 posted on 10/12/2017 9:40:08 PM PDT by dinodino
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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!

20 posted on 10/12/2017 9:48:26 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
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