For weeks, House and Senate Republicans have rallied behind a Homeland Security spending bill that defunds President Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
But Senate Democrats blocked the measure on Tuesday, triggering what will likely be a tough debate within the Republican conferences about how far to challenge the president using the congressional power of the purse.
“I’d like to go toe-to-toe with Obama,” Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark. “It’s a worthwhile fight, because what the president has done is blatantly unconstitutional.”
For Boozman and other conservatives in Congress, defunding Obama’s executive actions on immigration is a “must have” in any new legislation to fund DHS.
The debate over what to do next threatens to fracture the newly-minted GOP majority in Congress.
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3 comments:
They were elected to take it all the way. If they don't, they will be gone in 2016. And I'll be voting against them this time.
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Defund the whole agency. It's nothing short of another blackhole to pour our taxes into. We got along just fine w/o DHS until G.W. Bush pushed, with deadly force I'll add, it through the your 107th session.
If what he has done is 'unconstitutional then how come you and the rest of the republicans have not brought him up on impeachment charges?
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