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September 29, 2013
What looked last week like a game of political hot potato has become a high-stakes game of chicken, with continued operation of the federal government and possible wider impact on the overall economy hanging in the balance.
In a move that makes a shutdown appear very likely, House Republicans approved a spending plan early Sunday morning that would delay Obamacare for a year and repeal its tax on medical devices.
The temporary budget resolution now goes back to the Senate, where Democrats have consistently said any changes to President Barack Obama’s signature health care law would be a deal-killer.
On top of that, Obama has already issued a veto threat.
If Washington can’t reach a deal, a government shutdown will begin at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.
A Senate Democratic source told CNN on Saturday there were no plans for the Senate to meet before Monday — the day the current fiscal year ends.
Congress could avert a shutdown by passing a temporary spending measure while the two chambers work out their differences.
House GOP leaders defiant
As the countdown to a shutdown marched on, House Republican leaders remained defiant Sunday in their effort to chip away at Obamacare.
“If the Senate stalls until Monday afternoon instead of working today, it would be an act of breathtaking arrogance by the Senate Democratic leadership,” House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday in a written statement. Boehner added, “I call on the Democratic leaders of the Senate to act today on the measure passed by the House last night.”
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-California, one of Boehner’s top lieutenants, said Sunday that if the Senate rejects the latest House bill, House Republicans will send the Senate another bill that both funds the government and contains provisions regarding Obamacare.
“I think the House will get back together — in enough time — send another provision, not to shut the government down, but to fund it,” McCarthy said on “Fox News Sunday,” “and it will have other options in there (about Obamacare) for the Senate to look at again.”
“We are not shutting the government down,” McCarthy insisted when asked whether he was willing to risk the first shutdown of the federal government since 1996. “While the president was out golfing (Saturday) and the senators went home, we were here working till 1 a.m. to make sure we didn’t shut the government down, that we put a funding bill across.”
