“If the U.S. government shuts down again in mid-January, it won’t be because House Republicans are demanding the repeal of the president’s health care law, in a repeat of the standoff that occurred earlier this fall,” the Huffington Post reports.
Said a senior House GOP aide: “There are no plans to tie a repeal vote to a government funding bill.”


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