The Hill
By Justin Sink
August 27, 2014
President
Obama won't be deterred from taking executive action on immigration
despite threats from some congressional Republicans to force a
government shutdown, the White
House said Wednesday.
Asked
if threats from Republicans would make the president "think twice" on
his plans for executive action, White House press secretary Josh Earnest
said flatly, "no,
it won't.
"The
president is determined to act where House Republicans won't, and there
is strong support for that all across the country," Earnest said.
Rep.
Steve King (R-Iowa) told the Des Moines Register on Wednesday that "all
bets are off" on a continuing resolution this fall if the president
moved forward on immigration.
"If
the president wields his pen and commits that unconstitutional act to
legalize millions, I think that becomes something that is nearly
political nuclear," King said.
"I think the public would be mobilized and galvanized and that changes
the dynamic of any continuing resolution and how we might deal with
that."
Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
have also suggested the GOP could use the budget process to halt
administrative actions being
contemplated by the White House.
Earnest
said it "would be a real shame if Republicans were to engage in an
effort to shut down the government" over the president's attempts to
address immigration reform,
noting that the shutdown last year had a negative impact on the
economy.
The
president is expected to unveil his administration’s steps on
immigration by the "end of summer.” White House officials, though,
insist no final decisions have been
made yet.
The
administration is reportedly considering a dramatic expansion of the
number of individuals who can receive green cards or who would be
eligible for the deferred action
program that pauses deportation proceedings for those who have entered
the country illegally.
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