Time
By Alex Rogers
February 10, 2015
Congress is barreling towards a crucial end-of-the-month deadline without a plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
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Republicans on Capitol Hill are already blaming each other. Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner said
Tuesday that the other chamber
is now primarily responsible for finding a way forward.
“I
think it’d be pretty safe to say we’re stuck because of Democratic
obstruction on the Senate side,” said McConnell, who put a House-passed
bill up for a vote three
times last week and failed due to a Democratic filibuster. “And the
next step is obviously up to the House.”
“The
House has passed a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security,
and block the President’s unilateral executive action on immigration,”
Boehner spokesman Michael
Steel told CQ Roll Call. “Now, the pressure is on Senate Democrats who
claim to oppose the President’s action, but are filibustering a bill to
stop it.”
Last
year, Congress agreed to extend funding for all aspects but DHS for a
full fiscal year over Republican resentment that the agency would carry
out Obama’s November
executive actions on immigration. Removing those three million
immigrants now protected from deportation could add an additional cost
to the $40 billion bill of $20 billion to $25 billion, reports Politico.
Congress
has until Feb. 27 before DHS runs out of funding, forcing as many as
30,000 government employees to go on furlough, according to Secretary
Jeh Johnson.
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