Which begs the obvious question: Why did Boehner pick the DHS funding bill as the vehicle to try and de-fund Obama’s executive amnesty?

WASHINGTON — 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.

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.

“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.”