Congress Clears Budget Setting Up Obamacare Repeal

Published January 13, 2017 9:45pm ET



The House approved a budget Friday providing for Congress to axe the revenue-related portions of Obamacare, teeing up a repeal procedure that congressional Democrats are powerless to stop.

The spending plan, cleared with few GOP defections and passed the day before by the Senate, instructs relevant committees to draw up legislation eliminating the law’s central provisions—including the individual mandate penalty—that can pass the upper chamber with a simple majority.

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