Without a threat of a government shutdown, this sets up a direct challenge to the president’s unilateral actions on immigration when we have new majorities in both chambers of Congress

House Speaker John Boehner (R-IL) on Republicans’ Budgetary Leash that on Homeland Security That Won’t Actually Affect Executive Action

To punish President Obama over his immigration executive action, House Republicans are mulling over a spending package that could limit funding to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through early next year. But the move would have the adverse effect of weakening border security, without actually blocking Obama’s program to defer the deportation of some immigrants.

The Cromnibus, which The Hill described as “a combination of a long-term omnibus spending bill and a shorter-term continuing resolution (CR),” contains 11 appropriations bills that would keep government agencies funded through the end of the 2015 fiscal year. Separately, the DHS would be funded at its existing level through a continuing resolution until February 27, 2015.

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