The problem is that the wording did not make the funding an appropriation. That’s what the original lawsuit was about. Presumably, it was not worded as an appropriation because the amount is variable and subject to a number of conditions. Congress does, however, have the power to rectify this.
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Followed by, “I’ll see you in court!”
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Yes, and hopefully TPM will correct the article soon. I wonder if the author accidentally selected TN in a pull-down menu of postal abbreviations while intending to select SD.
That’s right Congress - take it out of his hands. Just like the Russian sanctions, just like his iPhone … take them away from the tantrum-throwing toddler before he breaks anything else.
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The Weather Vane is swinging hard these last few days.
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Republicans have obviously decided the best way to “control” Trump is to ignore him. Everyone is doing it these days. Their next big fix is pretending he is not a Republican at all. I have to admit I am enjoying watching them scramble and slither away while making their “base” believe they are hanging tough. This is a whopping case of karma come home to roost.
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He does espouse to many Republican stands on the issues-hatred for the poor, antiabortion, anti women, anti disabled, pro business, pro rich, small government, lowering taxes on the wealthy, pro war, pro strong military, …
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Can’t Trump just make Mexico pay for the danged CSRs?
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Hate to quibble… but a better, more consise description of a typical Republican has never been written.
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My understanding is the funds mandated by the law were never appropriated for this part of the ACA. And the Obama administration made it work by shifting funds from other parts of HHS budgets to cover it. Hence the lawsuit which ruled that move was illegal but held off halting it while Congress and the newly installed Trump administration figured out what to do about it (by thier requests to the court to hold off).
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“And like the sanctions bill that just passed both the House and the Senate with veto proof majorities, so did this Act at the time it passed. Nixon was forced to sign it because he didn’t have the votes to override it with his veto.”
Everyone should be aware that Trump still hasn’t signed the sanctions bill yet. False claims have been made up to excuse this, like the idea he still hasn’t gotten the bill (false–it was sent Friday). But just like the claims confidently repeated that Trump was going to donate his paycheck to the government, the claim that he is going to sign the sanctions bill must be taken with a grain of salt. Maybe he will, but NOTHING asserted by this administration can be accepted without verification.
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Exactly. It is a minor and simple technical fix. But the GOP Cingress is loath to do it because it was their last thin reed to claim the ACA was “illegal” and are even more loath to be seen making the ACA work.
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Ditto that with the suddenly oh so concerned Jeff Flake of Az.
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Great Album!
And fully appropriate today in all sorts of areas.
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I thought he had 10 days from the time he receives the bill to sign it or veto it. I think he’ll wait until the last minute of the last day to decide what he’ll do. He’s that mercurial and frankly, ignorant. I don’t believe he’s donated any paycheck either to anything other than some other entity regarding his business or campaign for 2020 (which is one huge slush fund anyway). Either way, he’s figured out a way to keep that money in his personal sphere.
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Come on, Donald, you wimp.
Blow it up! Blow it up!
The sooner we get away from the conservative’s ACA model to single payer, the better.
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he was just kidding.
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So now they’ve figured out that they have to look at the policy? Assholes.
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At a photo op the other day featuring Devos they were attempting to show how concerned trump was about education funding because he donated $100,000 of his supposed salary but then it all fell apart when a reporter asked Sanders how this squared with his budget that cut Two Billion out of the education budget. Sanders fell back on the “what about the huge deficit” talking point and life goes on.
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A growing, bipartisan group of House members released a proposal on Monday to stabilize the individual market by having Congress appropriate the CSR money, guaranteeing stability by taking the decision out of Trump’s hands altogether.
taking the decision making out of trump’s tiny hands is good policy.
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