After passing a bill through the House of Representatives that continues funding the government only under the condition that Obamacare is defunded, Senator Ted Cruz is rallying Republican senators to do the same.
He announced, “I hope that every Senate Republican will stand together and oppose cloture on the bill in order to keep the House bill intact and not let [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid add Obamacare funding back in,” reports Politico.
Although a handful of Republicans support Cruz’s endeavor to end Obamacare, many senior Republican believe his strategy could backfire on the Republican party if it throws the country into another recession. Tying Obamacare cloture to overall government funding is a political move that many Republicans oppose for its extremity.
Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee told reporters, “The notion of encouraging Republican senators to vote against a bill they support doesn’t seem like a very sensible strategy to me.”
Republican Representative Peter King told CNN, “We can’t be going off on these false missions that Ted Cruz wants us to go on. The issues are too important. They’re too serious, they require real conservative solutions, not cheap headline-hunting schemes.”
Besides the 46 Republicans in the upper chamber, Cruz needs 40 more additional Republicans to back him.