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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Wed Oct 9, 2013, 09:38 AM Oct 2013

How Long Will GOP Continue Shut Down? It Cannot Go On Until The Next Election Or Can It?

Defunding the ACA at this point is about stopping future funding to continue it. Obama would have to agree to a repeal of the act and a repeal of the funding already passed. The GOP is demanding total capitulation and putting the health care laws back to before he was elected in 2008.