GOP lawmaker: Obama has ‘gone rogue’

Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) on Friday said Republicans have no other choice but to pursue a lawsuit when President Obama has “gone rogue.” 

On Fox News’s “On the Record,” Schock said he would prefer not to sue the administration over parts of ObamaCare. 

“I would prefer not to hire an attorney. Nobody wants to do this, Greta, but what do you do when you have a chief executive who has gone rogue?” he said.

{mosads}A day after Obama’s immigration announcement, House Republicans revealed Friday morning that they are suing the administration over the healthcare law’s delayed employer mandate. The suit also questions the method of funding for financial assistance provided to consumers by the law.

Schock said he’s not sure how long the lawsuit will “drag on,” but said its purpose is to push back against Obama because he changed the law’s rules after it was enacted.

“There is a lot of the things that the Democrats when they passed it, they gave great leniency to the president and the administration to change the rules, and come up with the rules and have the latitude to change them…,” he said.

The lawsuit wouldn’t repeal ObamaCare, Schock acknowledged, but would prove that Congress has “standing.”

“It will play into what we do on immigration with what he has just done illegally with an executive order, pushing on him trying to do legislation,” he said.