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Bachmann: I Would Increase Debt Ceiling If It Was Tied To Defunding Obamacare | Via Michael O’Brien at The Hill: “They’d have to cut an enormous amount, including they would have to defund Obamacare,” she said on Fox News in response to a question about the circumstances under which she’d vote to raise the debt ceiling. “Because that’s the largest entitlement in the history of the country.” Ironically, defunding health care reform would actually lead the government to reach the debt ceiling sooner because it would increase the deficit by “$3.9 billion over the 2011-2016 period and $5.6 billion over the 2011-2021 period.” Maintaining the law lowers the deficit by $210 billion over 10 years.
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