White House Diverting $500M to Help IRS Pay for Healthcare Law Details

Because the IRS is charged with administering critical parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the tax agency has been receiving hundreds of millions of dollars to put the law into action, according to The Hill.

Since the signing of the landmark healthcare law in 2010, HHS has sent the IRS $200 million to prepare two administering several parts of it: the controversial individual health insurance mandate tax penalty and the tax credit program to help low-income people purchase health insurance. HHS plans to transfer $300 million to the IRS from a $1 billion implementation fund the department received as an appropriation of PPACA.

According to the Government Accountability Office, the HHS-IRS transfers are legal and in-line with how general federal implementation funds are spent.

Republican lawmakers are trying to halt such implementation funding for the law, at least until the Supreme Court makes a ruling — likely in June — on the constitutionality of PPACA.

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