In response to a question by Hotair.com's Mary Katharine Ham about executive authority, Kasich said, "An executive order should be used frankly in consolidation and with consulting with the leadership in the — in the Congress. I've done it in Ohio. I consult. I could use executive orders, but I don't trump the legislature, because if you do, you aggravate them, you anger them and then the long-term prospects get bleak."
But when it came to expanding Obamacare as governor, it was a different story. In 2013, the state legislature stripped the Medicaid expansion from his budget and blocked him from implementing it, but he vetoed that provision and rammed the plan through a seven-member panel known as the Controlling Board rather than putting it through the full legislature.
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