by:Joe Saunders
"Congress is the only source ..."
The Obamacare house of cards is shaking again.
A federal judge on Thursday handed a major victory to House Republicans who filed a lawsuit against the administration claiming the White House was paying for a key part of Obamacare funding without the consent of Congress.
And that could mean big trouble down the road for the disastrous Obama presidency whose boss believes the attempt to take over the U.S. healthcare system is his biggest legislative achievement.
At issue in the court was how to pay for the insurance subsidies needed to make Obamacare work. Those subsidies of untold millions of dollars have come in the form of federal assistance to help lower-income Americans pay for the health insurance the law requires all Americans to have, according to news reports.
After Congress refused to authorize payments for the subsidies, known as cost sharing, the administration opted to use refundable tax credits to pay for them, according to Politico. House Republicans under former Speaker John Boehner sued, challenging the White House’s ability to spend federal money without the permission of Congress.
In a ruling that has Republicans cheering, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer delivered the blow to the pride of the progressives.
“Congress is the only source for such an appropriation, and no public money can be spent without one,” she wrote. A succinct shutdown of the Obama funding scheme.
Without the unconstitutional funding, the cost sharing subsidies dry up. And the federally mandated “affordable care” won’t be so affordable after all, making the whole flimsy edifice of Obamacare unreliable — just as opponents have been saying for six years now.
The GOP was pleased with the decision, calling the payments part of a pattern of Obama’s constitutional defiance since he took office.
“Today’s ruling that President Obama has once again overstepped his constitutional authority should come as no surprise, as this has been the administration’s pattern over the past 7 and a half years,” the Republican National Committee said in a statement, according to Fox News.
But in a legal move that might seem absurd to the average American, Judge Collyer stayed her own ruling, which gives the administration a chance to file its inevitable appeal. And considering how the Supreme Court managed to twist itself into knots to uphold two previous Obamacare challenges, anything is possible of course.
But conservatives on social media cheered the courtroom victory.
@TIME Finally someone has Balls🍐⚾️⚾️— Mike Sorrentino (@Ms519mike) May 12, 2016
@TIME yippy, another kick in the pants. LMAO!— Christopher Maxwell (@maxwellgsd) May 12, 2016
@CNN This was way overdue. It’s about time.— Clint Turner (@ClintPTurner) May 12, 2016
He’ll be out soon enough. It’s the Supreme Court that matters here. And with Antonin Scalia no longer around, it’s going to matter a lot in November’s election of a new president who will almost certainly have more than one high court vacancy to fill.@CNN@cnnbrk I can’t wait till OBUMMER is out of the White House as Donald Trump says to the Protesters get em outta here lol!— Ann (@wilsod1234) May 12, 2016
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