Government Shut Down

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Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Your words, not theirs...

The GOP House of Representatives voted to pass the funding Bill for Obamacare.
The GOP House of Representatives voted to pass the funding Bills for all of the budget in the Debt Ceiling
The Senate passed and the President signed those Bills
The total of all these Bills passed by the GOP House exceeds the current debt ceiling.

Now the GOP House is attempting to renege on it's agreements.
Reid is opposed to rewarding their recurring bad behavior.

That's the problem with passing bills into law, when they haven't been studied, FIRST.

Now that Obamacare has started to roll out further, and a lot of exemptions have been made, and a lot of our biggest health care insurers have backed out of Obamacare, the people are not so happy with it. And that is what the House Republicans are reacting to. Remember, they had to vote on ACA before it's contents were even fully written up - "We'll vote on it first, and find out what's in it later", they were told.
So they did just that. And now the people they represent are not happy with what's in it.

House members, unlike the Senate, MUST respond quicker to the feedback they're getting from their district. They are up for election every 2 years, and it's coming up FAST. They have to respond, or they're out, as early as next year.