WASHINGTON WEEK

with GWEN IFILL

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 @ 7:30PM

This Week: Budget Battle, Obamacare, US-Iran relations, Homeland Security

Ahead of the Affordable Care Act’s latest provisions taking effect October 1, the White House has been focusing on educating the public about the health insurance exchanges. Simultaneously, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz has continued his own campaign to defund the law, this week on the floor of the Senate.

But President Obama is not backing down from Republican threats to tie funding for Obamacare to the budget and efforts to raise the nation’s debt ceiling. He told a crowd at a community college in Maryland Thursday that Republicans were becoming increasingly “irresponsible” in opposing the law that provides health care for millions of uninsured Americans.