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US House passes budget bill that would defund healthcare law | US House passes budget bill that would defund healthcare law |
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US lawmakers have passed a budget bill that would keep the government operating, while defunding President Barack Obama's healthcare law. | |
The Republican-led House of Representatives voted 230-189, largely along party lines, in favour of the controversial measure. | |
The Democratic-controlled Senate has promised to strip the "defund Obamacare" provision next week. | |
Mr Obama vowed to veto the bill in the unlikely event it ever gets that far. | |
The government faces a potential shutdown on 1 October if Congress and the White House do not agree on a temporary budget measure. | |
The Republican-sponsored stopgap bill proposes funding federal agencies at an annualised rate of more than $986bn (£615bn), but includes a provision that strips federal funding for the Affordable Care Act. | |
Also known as Obamacare, the 2010 law requires businesses with more than 50 workers to provide health insurance to all their full-time staff, or pay a series of increasingly severe penalties. | Also known as Obamacare, the 2010 law requires businesses with more than 50 workers to provide health insurance to all their full-time staff, or pay a series of increasingly severe penalties. |
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has called for an end to the law because it "is turning our full-time economy into a part-time economy". | House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has called for an end to the law because it "is turning our full-time economy into a part-time economy". |
On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Republicans were "simply postponing for a few days the inevitable choice" between passing a bill without the provision or forcing a government shutdown. | On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Republicans were "simply postponing for a few days the inevitable choice" between passing a bill without the provision or forcing a government shutdown. |
"The Affordable Care Act has been the law of the land for three years," he said in a statement. "The Senate will not pass any bill that defunds or delays Obamacare." | "The Affordable Care Act has been the law of the land for three years," he said in a statement. "The Senate will not pass any bill that defunds or delays Obamacare." |