Lee says he has 13 or 14 senators with him on the issue. | John Shinkle/POLITICO Pol threatens government shutdown

There is growing support among Republicans for a plan to shut down the government to block funding for Obamacare, Sen. Mike Lee said Monday.

“Right now, this is the last stop before Obamacare fully kicks in on Jan. 1 of next year, for us to refuse to fund it,” Lee said on Fox News “Fox and Friends.”


Lee said he has 13 or 14 senators with him on the issue and added that there is a parallel effort in the House.

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“Congress, of course, has to pass a law to continue funding government,” he said. “Lately, we’ve been doing that through a funding mechanism called a continuing resolution. If Republicans in both houses simply refuse to vote for any continuing resolution that contains further funding for further enforcement of Obamacare, we can stop it, we can stop the individual mandate from going into effect.”

Lee clarified that he was not talking about certain parts of the law that are already in effect, such as kids being able to stay on their parents plans until they are 26. He said they were focused on unpopular parts of the law such as the individual mandate.

“We already knew that Obamacare was going to be unaffordable,” he said. “Now we know that it’s going to be unfair as well because the president’s rewriting it, not just once, but twice, by telling us that he’s not going to enforce the employer mandate but that he’s going to leave individuals on the hook, hard working Americans who can’t afford lobbyists to get to him at the White House.”