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Treasury didn’t check for legal authority before delaying Obamacare mandate

By Joel Gehrke

Published March 20, 2014 4:00am ET

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Treasury didn’t check for legal authority before delaying Obamacare mandate — PolitiFact editor Angie Holan defended her rating of President Obama's promise that "if you've got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it" as "true" in 2008, claiming that the rating was at least accurate at the time. (Photo: Thinkstock) | Ellenmck

Treasury Department officials didn’t check to make sure they had the legal authority to delay an Obamacare mandate before issuing guidance that flouted the text of the law, a department official told House investigators.

Treasury Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy Mark Mazur, who announced the employer mandate delay in a blog post, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that he didn’t remember anyone considering the legal basis for the delay.

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