Cruz: Passing Smaller Funding Bills Has Nothing to do With Obamacare

Ted Cruz chastised his Democratic colleagues on the Senate floor for refusing to pass smaller bill to fund particular parts of government, such as veterans’ affairs, war memorials, national parks, and the National Institutes of Health, arguing that funding those services wouldn’t mean Democrats had ceded ground in the Obamacare debate.

Nothing that Congress had passed a bill earlier in the week to preserve military pay, Cruz lamented, “Sadly, that was the last of that behavior that we were to see. I hope that majority leader returns.”

“[The VA bill] is exactly like the bill that my friends on the Democratic side of the aisle voted for to fund the men and women of the military,” the Texas senator continued. “They’ve done it once, and yet for whatever reason they’ve made the decision that appears to the public to be cynical and partisan.”