WASHINGTON — President Obama claims he had the “executive authority” to change the Affordable Care Act after it became law.
But at a news conference Friday, the president did not say, and was not asked, what gave him the executive authority to delay enforcing the Obamacare employer mandate for a year, which many critics say was blatantly unconstitutional.
As WND reported last month, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa pointed out the move was strictly illegal.
“He has no constitutional authority to simply waive the law … only Congress can do so,” King said.
His observation was soon echoed by a chorus of prominent critics in Congress and the media.
In his first solo news conference since April 30, the president was asked, if he can pick and choose parts of the health-care law to change, what is to prevent his successor from doing the same?
Instead of addressing the question, the president noted he did not make the change by himself but after consultation with businesses, “many” of whom, he said, support Obamacare.
The president also claimed that in a “normal” political environment he would have gone to the House speaker to tweak the law to make a “technical” change.
However, Obama said, he is not in a normal political environment because of strong Republican opposition to Obamacare.
8-19-2013
But at a news conference Friday, the president did not say, and was not asked, what gave him the executive authority to delay enforcing the Obamacare employer mandate for a year, which many critics say was blatantly unconstitutional.
As WND reported last month, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa pointed out the move was strictly illegal.
“He has no constitutional authority to simply waive the law … only Congress can do so,” King said.
His observation was soon echoed by a chorus of prominent critics in Congress and the media.
In his first solo news conference since April 30, the president was asked, if he can pick and choose parts of the health-care law to change, what is to prevent his successor from doing the same?
Instead of addressing the question, the president noted he did not make the change by himself but after consultation with businesses, “many” of whom, he said, support Obamacare.
The president also claimed that in a “normal” political environment he would have gone to the House speaker to tweak the law to make a “technical” change.
However, Obama said, he is not in a normal political environment because of strong Republican opposition to Obamacare.
8-19-2013
