The GOP-led House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to sue U.S. President Barack Obama for allegedly stepping beyond his executive authority to carry out his healthcare law.

The Republicans, who won in the 225-201 vote, granted the House lawyers the authority to start drafting the legal documents as the House begins its five-week recess on Friday. The lawsuit against the president is expected to affect both the Republicans and Democrats' campaigns ahead of the November elections, Reuters explained.

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The result of the campaigns in the coming months will determine which party will lead the Congress, the following year.

The planned lawsuit would claim that Obama overstepped his authority in revising the Affordable Care Act, more popularly known as Obamacare. According to Republicans, the president, who is a Democrat, violated the U.S. Constitution by bypassing Congress when he delayed some of the healthcare coverage mandates and granted several waivers in the healthcare act.

Republicans also brought up complaints about Obama's other unilateral actions for the advancement of his own agenda. These complaints include the executive orders he issued on same-sex partner benefits and the immigration policy.

The GOP-led House centered the lawsuit on Obamacare because doing it would most likely eliminate the legal obstacles needed to succeed. House Rules Committee chair Pete Sessions said. He said, Obama managed to rewrite the law without going through constitutional process.

Democrats, on the other hand, said the lawsuit was just a waste of taxpayer money for political purposes. They also criticized the Congress for failing to address the more important issues such as emergency funding to deal with the influx of migrant kids.

As Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee put it, the Republicans are just trying to impeach the president through the lawsuit.

Obama himself dismissed the suit as a waste of time and a political stunt, slamming the Congress for not taking action on the country's existing problems, BBC added. He said his party is working hard to implement laws designed to help American families.

"That's when we act - when your Congress won't," the president said.

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