Early in former President Barack Obama’s second term, the Republican-controlled House, backed by outside conservative groups and some of the most vocal elements of the Senate GOP minority, sought to defund his signature legislative achievement, using a government shutdown as leverage.
Republicans had campaigned on repealing the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, from virtually the moment it became law. There was a straight line from what then-Vice President Joe Biden hailed as a “big f***ing deal” and what Obama later described as a “shellacking” in the 2010 midterm elections. Republicans toppled the Democrats’ huge House majority and seized the speaker’s gavel from Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) by gaining 63 seats, mostly by running on a pro-repeal message.
But Obama recovered and was reelected anyway,
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