President Barack Obama is planning on addressing the nation to discuss the stop-gap measure that would continue funding for the next month-and-a-half just passed by the Senate that is currently heading to the House for consideration. The speech is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m.
The House approved a bill that would finance the government with a rider that would completely defund the Affordable Care Act last week and sent it to the Senate where Democrats were sure to vote against it.
After a 21-hour speech on the Senate floor by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, the Senate debated the funding bill very quickly and voted to end debate early on Friday. Democrats then voted to remove the rider that would defund the health care law and passed the bill by a vote of 54-44, according to USA Today.
Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, has already said that House Republicans will not pass a budget that doesn't defund the hated law that is commonly referred to as Obamacare. It is unknown how House Republicans will respond now that the ball is in their court.
A live stream of President Obama's speech can be seen through C-Span at the following link.
