As Yogi Berra would say “It’s like deja-vu, all over again.”
Via Defense One
House Republicans have made their initial offer in what is likely to be drawn out negotiations to reconcile their caucus’ desire to end President Obama’s executive action to defer deportation for millions of immigrants with the administration’s priority to fund the Homeland Security Department past February.
For now, Democrats have balked at the proposal, saying only that Republicans are setting the course for a department shutdown.
“It is clear Republicans’ partisan recklessness knows no limits,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Monday. “House Republicans are threatening a partial government shutdown, choosing a time of rising terrorism to imperil the security of our entire country to satisfy the most radical anti-immigrant fringes of their party.”
The proposal, put forward by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., would boost DHS’ fiscal 2014 funding to $39.7 billion for fiscal 2015, but would fully roll back Obama’s action. That measure is expected to receive a veto from Obama, should it move successfully through the House and Senate.[…]
“We want to get this to the president’s desk so that we can get a signature, funding Homeland Security at a very [tenuous] time in the world,” Rogers said when unveiling his bill Friday. “I would wonder whether the president would have real deep misgivings about not signing a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security.”