House Republicans passed a bill attacking Obamacare that includes a provision changing the definition of a full work week.
The bill, which passed in a vote of 252 to 172 on Thursday afternoon.
The key part of the legislation redefines the work week from 30 hours to 40 hours under Obamacare — a measure that would eliminate employer coverage requirements for up to 1 million workers, the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation projected.
It was clear earlier in the week that the House would pass the legislation. A day earlier President Barack Obama issued a veto threat against the bill saying it would “increase the deficit, reduce the number of Americans with employer-based health insurance coverage, and create incentives for employers to shift their employees to part-time work — causing the problem it intends to solve.”
Ahead of the vote, the conservative National Review published an editorial scorching the bill.
“Republican leadership has an odd idea for one of its first big policy pushes of this Congress: a change to Obamacare that threatens to make the law worse,” the editorial said.
