Posted on 02/18/2015 4:11:05 PM PST by tobyhill
Days after a federal judge issued an injunction against President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) urged Senate Republicans to abandon their defunding efforts and pass a clean Homeland Security funding bill.
“We have to fund Homeland Security,” Rubio reportedly said on Wednesday, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “We can’t let Homeland Security shut down.”
He reportedly “noted that Obama has threatened to veto any bill that would reverse his executive actions on immigration, including the measure to pay for Homeland Security” and “the Senate doesn’t have enough votes to pass the bill that ties the two issues together,” according to the outlet.
Rubio, who is weighing a potential presidential run, made his remarks in Las Vegas during his book tour.
The House passed a Homeland Security spending bill that also prohibits the federal government from funding Obama’s executive amnesty. Senate Democrats have filibustered the bill three times and will reportedly not back down next week before the Feb. 27 deadline to fund the agency.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Assuming(unlikely) that McConnell should want to use the traditional 51 votes for a spending bill, rather than the 60 votes that he wimped out to as soon as he got the gavel... All they need is one more DIABLO to defect...Or maybe one already has.... Who will it be?
un-fricking-believable
I get the Sense that Mark Levin is Livid over this but is hiding it until he can Marco on the Phone with him and on the air...
We don’t need a “Homeland Security Dept”. It’s just another layer of bureaucracy that obstructs homeland security. Get rid of it along with a bunch of other three letter fedgov bureaucracies. Dubya let the neo-cons & progs talk him into it, he was initially opposed to a DHS. We have an FBI, a CIA and a DOD - that’s plenty. Let them do their jobs and report to POTUS without the filter.
4:37 PST - Mark Levin is about to read the actual story and the complete Rubio statement.
LOSER.
Wonder how many illegals Rubio knows….
Hey Rubio! Do you have any clue as to what DHS does? It appears to me that right now, they sit around on their asses all day taking “selfies” and waiting for their paychecks to hit the bank.
Just out of curiosity, what is supposed to be so great about this guy that anyone would want him for president?
Thank you...let us know what it is.
Gutless Rubio and Senate Republicans want to tell us that there is no other way but to cave to Obama? What the heck did we send majority Senate Republicans to Washington to do? We could have caved with a minority of republicans!!!
Tribe trumps political party apparently, even if there is little love lost between Cubans and Mexicans.
“We can’t let Homeland Security shut down.”
Rubio’s office just contacted Mark Levin and disputes the headline. But I think Rubio is not to be trusted; he is for closing the border and, like most Republicans, giving amnesty to everyone who is trapped inside, all 20 million. Always note the language for those who insist that the border be secured—they fail to mention the millions already here. It is weasel language to allow amnesty.
He always seems to be the one who backs down on issues like this.
Without a doubt, his presidential chances are over.
He might, as a Democrat.
We cannot let Rubio be our nominee.
Rubio’s position does not surprise me in the least...
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