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With just four days remaining before Department of Homeland Security funding runs out, Senate Republicans Monday signaled they could be edging toward a solution to end weeks of spending gridlock with Democrats.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., introduced standalone legislation to block President Obama’s November executive action that permits millions of illegal immigrants to obtain work permits and some federal benefits.
The move uncouples the GOP-backed provision curbing the president’s executive actions from a $40 billion Homeland Security spending bill that Democrats have been blocking because it includes the immigration language.
“The new bill I described offers another option we can turn to,” McConnell said Monday. “It’s another way to get the Senate unstuck from a Democrat filibuster and move the debate forward.”
The measure would not block the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The DACA program was implemented by Obama through executive action in 2012 and allows young people who arrived here illegally as children to obtain work permits and federal benefits.
"It isn’t tied to DHS’ funding," McConnell said. "It removes their excuse. This is our colleagues’ chance to do exactly what they led their constituents to believe they’d do — defend the rule of law, without more excuses."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/g...ht-from-homeland-funding-bill/article/2560592
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., introduced standalone legislation to block President Obama’s November executive action that permits millions of illegal immigrants to obtain work permits and some federal benefits.
The move uncouples the GOP-backed provision curbing the president’s executive actions from a $40 billion Homeland Security spending bill that Democrats have been blocking because it includes the immigration language.
“The new bill I described offers another option we can turn to,” McConnell said Monday. “It’s another way to get the Senate unstuck from a Democrat filibuster and move the debate forward.”
The measure would not block the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The DACA program was implemented by Obama through executive action in 2012 and allows young people who arrived here illegally as children to obtain work permits and federal benefits.
"It isn’t tied to DHS’ funding," McConnell said. "It removes their excuse. This is our colleagues’ chance to do exactly what they led their constituents to believe they’d do — defend the rule of law, without more excuses."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/g...ht-from-homeland-funding-bill/article/2560592
