Republicans split on DHS funding, edging closer to partial shutdown

[DonViejo]

Congressional Republicans remain sharply divided over the looming standoff over funding the Department of Homeland Security, prompting White House officials to prepare to shut down an agency designed to protect everything from the nation’s borders to the president.

With four days before the security agency’s budget lapses, Republican elder statesmen are pushing for a new strategy that does not directly link President Obama’s actions on immigration to funding for DHS. The funding has been held up in protest of Obama’s plan to allow temporary residency for more than 4 million illegal immigrants who met certain conditions.

Some Republicans have seized on last week’s ruling from a federal judge in Texas halting the implementation of the Obama orders as the way to keep up the fight without shutting down such a critical security agency.

Later Monday the Senate is expected to again fail to reach the 60 votes needed to overcome the united opposition from Democrats, the fourth such roll call this month. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who earlier said his chamber was “stuck,” has not indicated what his next move will be. And House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) has remained steadfast in declaring that the next move must come from the Senate.

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[Thinkingabout]

1. The party of NO still does not understand governing.

[KamaAina]

2. Why do they hate America so much?

[RKP5637]

3. Maybe they are, but I think TPTB democrats should be screaming from the rooftops about this,

but IMO it seems silent. If the democrats were shutting down DHS the republicans would be screaming 7x24 about how the country was going to be attacked, unprotected and a bunch of stuff, weak on national security and a barrage of stuff. I think the democratic party totally lacks appropriate and correct timing of messaging to make the most of republican follies. This is a fine example of the inability of the republican party to run the country, and, they want the WH too! What a joke the GOP is, a bunch of losers over and over again.