Push is on against Health Law

Republicans are against the Obamacare Law and want it to be taken away to reduce government spending. Republicans and Democrats are not getting along, for their priorities are in discordance. Republicans in Congress are against the programs President Obama is promoting to help the economy. They are against his health care law, the spending on infrastructure, and environment spending because they believe they are unnecessary expenses. The House Appropriations subcommittee drafted legislation that would lower the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency and get rid of greenhouse gas regulations. The House has only provided Obama with a fraction of the money he had previously requested for renewable energy. A House bill to finance health and job programs threatens to get rid of the Public Broadcasting Corporation. In the White House, programs like Head Start and institutes of health were a priority, but the Republicans oppose to them because they fear that grants for low income students would lower and would affect the Labor Department negatively as well. In the Senate, Republicans threaten to not approve spending on Obamacare. They are trying to get the law repealed or modified. The government is in danger of shutting down for about a month if Congress and Obama can’t get to an agreement. White House members and leaders feel as though the Republicans are being unfair to the Obamacare. Senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer believes that Republicans need to start working with the Democrats or else the nation will be the one affected. The Senate has drafted some spending bills, but Obama has vetoed them. Yet, the Republicans insist that Obama has to give up some of his priorities.

In this case, the different parts of government express their power. The House is in charge of providing the President with a budget to run the programs that he wants to support. We see that the House doesn’t give the President the amount he requested and makes him conform to a much smaller budget. I think this is a rude tactic to express disapproval of the President’s actions. He was to use the budget in programs that would help the environment and create new ways to use energy, along with the improvement of health programs, yet the House made up an excuse to go contrary to the President’s decisions. The parties are blinded with hatred and are not doing what they can to avoid conflict. As George Washington stated in his First Inaugural Address, “there shall be no political parties”. I think he said this because he foresaw the types of conflicts that are seen right now. The Republicans can’t get along with the Democrats and vice-versa. I think if the government continues in conflict, they may begin losing power and control over the people because their disagreements don’t allow anything to get done. Also, the representatives in the government are supposed to be there to express the will of the people, yet they seem to instead spread their own thoughts and opinions to the people they represent. To me, the government seems inefficient and unreliable to get things done, like making a positive change on the issues that have troubled the nation for years. Here is Obama trying to handle issues such as global warming and a high population without health care insurance, and all the Republicans are worried about is the money and not letting the Democrats do their thing. There needs to be an agreement soon, for the nation cannot wait too long.