I would be more surprised if he didn’t try.

Via The Hill:

President Obama will not rule out using his executive authority to shut down the controversial military prison at Guantanamo Bay, an aide said Wednesday.

Press secretary Josh Earnest said it’s possible Obama might try to circumvent Congress if lawmakers reject the president’s latest plan to close the detention facility, which houses foreign terror suspects in Cuba.

“At this point, I would not take anything off the table in terms of the president doing everything that he can to achieve this critically important national security objective,” Earnest told reporters.

The White House is likely to unveil a new plan to shut down the prison in the coming days, according to Reuters.

Closing the prison, which has drawn international scorn, was one of Obama’s 2008 campaign promises. He began an effort to shut it down two days after taking office.