important check on an overreaching executive. now is the best chance we have to exercise the power in order to defund obamacare. it can be fund to pass the continuing resolution. a piece of legislation that funds the government and must be renewed by sent 30th. some say the legislation would be impossible to pass and wind up being disasterous for the gop. jamie weinstein is an editor for the daily caller and you had this exclusive email exchange with senator cruz. now he says this is not specifically a threat to shut down the government. he says, they re willing to vote or he suggests they vote to fund everything in the government except obamacare and dare the democrats, president obama, especially, to essentially force on the american people a program that cruz says they don t want. yes. this was an email exchange with our reporter alex pappas. cruz basically says it is now or never. if you don t try this strategy now, once the subsidies kick in
reporter: technically, actually already hit the debt limit back in may. the treasury secretary says the government has been using extraordinary measures to pay the bills since then. today the government really runs out of money, bill, sent 30th, got it. pushing towards 17 trillion. can t wait for that day. are republicans changing their strategy based on what secretary lou was talking about on sunday with chris wallace? reporter: doesn t sound like it. republicans we re hearing still want any increase in the debt limit to be offset by equal or greater spending cuts elsewhere. we re hearing republicans point to the administration s decision to delay the employer mandate part of obamacare and they re saying if the law isn t ready it shouldn t get any money. look, chris, we all know that the government s going to get funded. the only question is whether the government gets funded with obamacare and without it. what i m saying the president said he is not ready to implement the law.