Obama Admin continues to comit fraud

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HHS Purposely Pushes Out Cash
Ahead of Obamacare Ruling
Politico.com

Conservatives wanted the White House to stop spending on the health
care law until the Supreme Court rules on whether it’s constitutional.

But the administration has forged ahead, spending at least $2.7
billion since oral arguments in the case ended on March 28. That’s
more than double the amount that was handed out in the three-month
period leading up to the arguments, according to a Politico.com review
of funding announcements from the Department of Health and Human
Services.

While much -- if not all -- of this funding was in the pipeline well
before March, the timeline for handing out specific funds is not set
in stone, which gives the agency leeway over the kinds of dollars it
has been handing out.

And the stakes have increased as the date of a Supreme Court ruling
approaches, because money that is spent won’t have to be repaid, most
likely. But remaining funds will dry up if the court strikes down the
law.

The court is expected to announce its decision next week.

The $2.7 billion includes grants and awards that have been handed out
since the Supreme Court arguments -- including more than $90 million
in funds for health insurance cooperatives that HHS announced Friday
afternoon.

By contrast, the administration gave out about $1 billion in grants,
loans and other awards during the three months before the Supreme
Court arguments.

An HHS spokesperson strongly disputed the idea that there was any
change in the timeline because of the court...

Some Republicans have been pushing to halt all implementation of the
law until the Supreme Court ruling comes out. Last year, for example,
a draft of the House Labor-HHS appropriations bill, which provides
funding for the health care agencies, would have frozen all spending
on health reform until the court ruled. And Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
(R-TX) has been pushing a bill that would have blocked any more
implementation of the law before the ruling.

House Labor-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Denny Rehberg (R-
MT), the author of the appropriations bill that would have put
implementation funding on hold, blasted the latest HHS spending in a
statement provided to POLITICO.

“It was irresponsible to spend a single dollar implementing the law
before the Supreme Court rules, and I fought hard to prevent that
money from being spent,” Rehberg said.

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