Speaker Boehner didn’t mince any words when addressing the press about a bill passed by the House that would defund Obama’s illegal immigration order, but still fund the rest of the Department of Homeland Security.
Watch below:
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, implored Senate Democrats on Wednesday to “get off their ass” and help the Senate Republican majority advance a bill that funds the Department of Homeland Security while de-funding President Obama’s recent executive actions on immigration.
Last Month, the House passed a bill allocating $39.7 billion to the Department of Homeland Security, the agency tasked with enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. The bill included language to block President Obama’s move last year to shelter up to 5 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. from the threat of deportation by granting them temporary work permits. The proposal also undid the president’s 2012 decision to defer deportations of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
Now the ball is in the Senate’s court, Boehner said Wednesday, insisting no fewer than three times that the House has done its job.
“We won the fight to fund the Department of Homeland Security and to stop the president’s unconstitutional actions,” he said. “Now it’s time for the Senate to do their work.”
Big talk, but I would bet that they’re not going to really press the Dems to defind the Dream Act. They’re probably just putting up a good fight in order to tell us that they did.