Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) said in an interview published Wednesday that shutting down the federal government in an effort to defund the Affordable Care Act isn’t a “good option” for Republicans in Congress.
“I don’t think it’s a good option,” Perry told ABC News’ Jeff Zeleny. “There’s still time to sit down and try to fix Obamacare.”
The Texas governor ticked off a list of alternatives to the defund Obamacare strategy, including health savings accounts and personal responsibility programs, that would give individual states more flexibility in insuring residents.
While Perry wouldn’t say that Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) strategy to peg defunding Obamacare to a continuing resolution to fund the government was wrong, he said he believes “the idea that you have to defund government over one program is a bit nonsensical.”
