Despite the Congressional Research Service’s insistence that Obamacare would continue to be implemented even if Republicans succeeded in their defunding effort, the claim seems unlikely.

The CRS confidential memo to Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., stated that in the absence of discretionary funding for fiscal year 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services is using other funding sources to implement Obamacare:

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