[CA Conservative]

The Dems were claiming that charging the illegals those 'fees' would pay for processing them even without a DHS bill..

Not one dollar can be spent by the federal government unless the appropriation is approved by Congress, regardless of the source of the funding. So even those fees that are collected could not be spent to pay for the processing unless Congress approves - which they just did by passing the bill.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”Not one dollar can be spent by the federal government unless the appropriation is approved by Congress, regardless of the source of the funding. So even those fees that are collected could not be spent to pay for the processing unless Congress approves - which they just did by passing the bill. “

I doubt that those ‘fees’ on illegals which are new are mentioned anywhere in the ‘clean’ funding bill.

The objection seems to be that the bill didn't explicitly ban doing what Obama said that he was going to do, much like with the 2911 shutdown budgets,