Posted on 03/01/2015 8:11:10 PM PST by Steelfish
Congress No Closer To Funding Homeland Security Department As Another Shutdown Deadline Looms March 01, 2015 The widespread disagreement in Congress over President Obama's unilateral actions on immigration that nearly resulted in a partial shutdown of the Homeland Security Department resumes Monday -- with Democrats, Republicans, senators and congressmen all pointing fingers.
The House approved a funding bill for the agency just before the Friday midnight deadline, but only through this week.
Though the GOP-led chamber failed to pass a three-week extension and had to rely on Democrats to reach the final, shorter deal, they blame President Obama and Senate Democrats for putting them in the bind.
Democrats in both chambers largely oppose legislation in the GOP-controlled Congress that connects funding the agency through the fiscal year with attempts to roll back Obama’s executive action that defers deportation for millions of illegal immigrants.
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GOP is completely void of any scintilla of leadership in Washington. This is an easy win if we had any.
Is there some reason to think that we’d be better off with the DHS than without it??
“We're about to make mistakes of a lifetime if we don’t understand reality when it comes to DHS funding,” he continued.
They keep saying that yet here we are...
I thought the last government shut down was suppose to end the Republican party, but they ended up being rewarded with the House and the Senate.
I’m pretty confident that the vast majority of tax paying voters are not in favor of amnesty by any name and judging by how far we have come since 2004, I’m pretty confident they aren’t in favor of much of anything that Barack Obama has been selling.
Ain’t that the truth. Hopefully someone will step up and show some backbone.
“I thought the last government shut down was suppose to end the Republican party, but they ended up being rewarded with the House and the Senate.”
Yeah, and then the worthless, spineless, sold-out republicans handed the keys back to the dems and said “you drive”.
And the way they got that majority was by campaigning with promises to end and reverse the invasion of the US.
Republican president and republican Congress thought we needed a newer, bigger bureaucracy. Mission accomplished.
It was conservative voters that gave the republicans the house and the senate based on promises to those voters. But now that they’re in office they tell those voters to suck it.
The Stupid Party...
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