{"id":22508,"date":"2015-02-26T13:44:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22508"},"modified":"2015-02-26T13:44:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:44:27","slug":"boehner-stands-firm-on-tying-dhs-funding-to-amnesty-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22508\/boehner-stands-firm-on-tying-dhs-funding-to-amnesty-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Boehner Stands Firm on Tying DHS Funding to Amnesty Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) for declining the Senate GOP\u2019s offer to cave to Democrats\u2019 demand for a so-called \u201cclean\u201d funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>As I discuss in my column this week, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/58-immigration\/2480-on-obamas-amnesty-senate-gop-shouldnt-outsource-responsibility-to-judges \" target=\"_blank\">some Senate Republican leaders are getting gun shy<\/a> about following through with the party\u2019s promise to condition funding for DHS on new legislative language that specifically prohibits immigration agencies from implementing President Barack Obama\u2019s unilateral amnesty program. They warn that Republicans will be blamed for the shutdown that would start on Sunday when the DHS budget ends, if no new bill is passed. Better, they argue, to appropriate the money now and hope the federal judiciary holds Obama accountable in the future.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference today, Boehner reminded everyone that \u2013 at least publicly \u2013 \u201cAll Republicans agree that we need to fund the Department of Homeland Security and we want to stop the president\u2019s actions in response to immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ever the politician, Boehner \u201cwould not say whether he would back a Senate funding bill without provisions that would defund President Obama\u2019s executive actions on immigration,\u201d reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/congress\/john-boehner-blows-kisses-to-the-press-won-t-budge-on-dhs-20150226 \" target=\"_blank\">National Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s encouraging to hear the Speaker of the House sound resolute in defense of the rule of law when so much of the political class is aching to cut a deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) for declining the Senate GOP\u2019s offer to cave to Democrats\u2019 demand for a so-called \u201cclean\u201d funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. As I discuss in my column this week, some Senate Republican leaders are getting gun shy about following through with the party\u2019s promise to condition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[515,143,70,84,4117,981,1057,4303],"class_list":["post-22508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-dhs","tag-immigration","tag-john-boehner","tag-shutdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22508"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22514,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22508\/revisions\/22514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}