Sorry, doesn’t work that way.

Via The Hill:

House Democratic leaders say uncooperative GOP leaders have left President Obama with little choice but to act unilaterally.

They are cheering Obama’s move Tuesday to hike the minimum wage for federal contractors without congressional approval, and also back his promises to take more executive actions.

“Should he have to wait because of the intransigence, the obstacles that are [put] in place by Republicans? … He’s saying, ‘I’ll do what I can as the executive of this government,’” Rep. Xavier Becerra (Calif.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said after a closed door meeting in the Capitol.

“The president is asking Congress to work with him,” Becerra added. “But he’s not going to wait forever because you’ve got this heavy anchor of inaction in Congress weighing [down] the country and the economy.”