House Speaker John Boehner has gone full Judas and is going to allow a vote on a “clean” DHS funding bill that includes funding for Obama’s amnesty program.
This shows that Republican leaders are feckless and cannot be trusted to keep their promises to voters.
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The Huffington Post reports:
The House will finally vote on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security without immigration measures, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told his conference at a meeting on Tuesday.
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The vote will come after the House narrowly averted a shutdown last Friday when the House GOP rejected a “clean” DHS funding bill passed in the Senate, and then 52 conservative Republican members joined Democrats to block even a three-week continuing resolution. The House passed a one-week funding bill in hopes that Senate Democrats would allow a conference between the two chambers to go forward, but that was rejected on Monday.
Senate Democrats have already shown that they will not vote for a funding bill that passed the House in January. That bill would tie funding to ending President Barack Obama’s immigration actions, which could allow as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants to temporarily stay in the country and work.Advertisement - story continues below
“With more active threats coming into the homeland, I don’t believe that’s an option,” he said, according to the source. “Imagine if, God forbid, another terrorist attack hits the United States.”
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What do you think about this latest act of betrayal by House Speaker John Boehner? What was the point of the Republican landslide last November if this is the result?
