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The answer remains very unclear. Obviously they know that they can’t block the ACA. Attempting to fund the government piecemeal just won’t work. It’s absurd to try. The question remains, what do they want? Why not pass a clean CR so we can move on. No one, including them, really knows what they want.
Congress-watchers say there are at least 20 republican votes in the house to pass the CR right now. Let’s do it. Holding funding hostage just isn’t the way to do business.