Dems to GOP: No Obamacare extortion. Period, full stop.
House Republican leaders are now making it be known that they want to “negotiate” a way out of the government shutdown crisis. It’s unclear what Republicans would be willing to concede in this negotiation — if anything — and it’s also unclear why Democrats would want to be drawn into a negotiation in which only they are expected to make concessions. But that’s what Republicans are claiming. Other reports suggest Republicans may start to vote on bills funding the government piecemeal to ease political fallout from a shutdown.
In an interview with me today, Dem Rep. Chris Van Hollen responded to all the GOP chatter: No negotiations that tie funding of the government to the undermining of Obamacare. Period, full stop. Van Hollen also suggested current signs from the House GOP may mean the government could remain shut down for weeks — with the shutdown ultimately getting tied up in the debt limit fight, escalating the stakes enormously.
“We’re not going to negotiate the dismantling of Obamacare as part of keeping the government open,” Van Hollen said. “We are not going to go to a conference where they are threatening to shut down the government unless we derail the Affordable Care Act
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