Marco Rubio: 'Last Chance to Stop' Obamacare by 'Defunding It'

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., continued his push to defund President Barack Obamas federal health-care law on Tuesday. Rubio penned an opinion piece published at Townhall on Tuesday in which he argued the coming days will be the last chance to end the law.

Over the next two weeks, the sad spectacle that is Washington will be on full display as Congress and President Obama debate yet another short-term spending plan, also known as a continuing resolution (CR), Rubio wrote. Early in my Senate term, I realized these short-term CR's were a miserable way to run the federal government and decided I would not go along with this budgetary charade again. I came to the Senate to solve real problems and eliminate the biggest threats standing in the way of the 21st century being another exceptional American century. The people of Florida who I work for didnt send me here to keep postponing hard choices and leave our problems unsolved for future generations to deal with.

And thats exactly what these short-term budgets do. Rather than prioritize governments proper role in American society or fundamentally end the way Washington borrows and misspends money, CRs mostly continue the broken Washington status quo, Rubio continued.

With all that said, the CR that Congress will soon consider to keep our dysfunctional government open past Sept. 30 is actually a major opportunity to save our people from the job-killing disaster that is Obamacare, Rubio wrote. Because a major piece of its implementation begins on Oct. 1, this short-term budget represents our last chance to stop it by defunding it.

Short-term budgets are a terrible way to run a government, but if we can pass one that defunds Obamacare, we will be doing Americas workers and job creators a huge service that will be worth it, Rubio insisted. From the imperfect CR process, defunding Obamacare would produce a clear-cut victory for American workers and families. Settling for anything less would be devastating to them."