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Originally Posted by chefnerd
Actually, either the House or the Senate could defund it. The only two things Required to originate in the House, per Article I of the Constitution, are Impeachment proceedings and Revenue bills. As an example, the latest farm bill, which has numerous spending amounts in it, originated in the Senate. The House then cut nutrition benefits and increased subsidies to the wealthy farmers and big agri-businesses.
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A Republican-led Congress would send Obama an appropriations bill minus the money for enacting the health care law and dare him to veto it. If he vetoes it, no funds are appropriated and unless Congress folds and sends it back with the health care money included, funding for the government would start to run out. Most of the health care funding would be contained in the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill, which funds a lot of the programs that get the most use, like public schools, low-income heating assistance, unemployment insurance, job training, and public broadcasting, so it would be a very high-stakes game
