Sessions Defends Order Ending Obamacare Subsidies – Executive Can’t Spend Money Like This

[Free Vulcan]

Early on Friday morning, TFPP reported that President Donald Trump is planning on a new executive order that will end subsidies to insurance companies to reduce costs of Obamacare exchange insurance plans. The order will withdraw funds that Congress has not approved, and AG Jeff Sessions is defending the order as the right move.

Sessions was interview on Fox and Friends on Friday morning. Host Steve Doocy asked Sessions about the fact that the Obama administration had authorized over $7 billion to be given to insurance companies to reduce rates for consumers. However, Congress had not authorized that money to go to the insurance companies, and Republicans have criticized the grants as being nothing more than insurance company bailouts.

Read more at: http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/sessions-defends-order-ending-obamacare-subsidies-executive-cant-spend-money-like

[Smokin Joe]

This could be a good deal, at any rate force Congress to defecate or vacate the thundermug.

[Cyber Liberty]

This could be a good deal, at any rate force Congress to defecate or vacate the thundermug.

It might.  Didn't Obama write a waiver to allow Congresscritters to declare their offices small businesses, thus exempt from the O-Care mandates?  I think eliminating that waiver might have some effect on the dime-standing.