Republican Senator Denounces House GOP’s Obamacare Strategy
A Republican senator spoke out Sunday against her GOP colleagues in the House for threatening to force a government shutdown in an effort to defund or delay the Affordable Care Act.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) signaled her disagreement in a statement released the same day that House Republicans passed a spending measure that delays the health care law for one year.
“I disagree with the strategy of linking Obamacare with the continuing functioning of government-a strategy that cannot possibly work,” Collins said in the statement, according to The Hill.
Collins urged Obama and “congressional leaders to sit down immediately and negotiate at least a stopgap funding measure to avoid a disruption in many vital programs on which our citizens rely.”
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