WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is promising to veto, if necessary, a Republican effort to wreck President Barack Obama's health care law as part of House legislation to prevent a partial government shutdown.
The official policy statement, issued Thursday, said the GOP attempt to block "Obamacare" "advances a narrow ideological agenda that threatens our economy and the interests of the middle class" and would deny "millions of hard-working, middle-class families the security of affordable health coverage."
The veto threat was expected and wasn't going to stop House Republicans from pressing their effort to defund the health care law.
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