Boehner: Judge’s Immigration Ruling Should Clear Way for DHS Funding Bill

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said Tuesday morning that a federal judge’s ruling halting the implementation of President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration should clear the way for a Department of Homeland Security Funding bill and avoid a possible shutdown.

The DHS bill had been blocked primarily over an amendment passed in the House of Representatives defunding Obama’s immigration order; Senate Democrats filibustered the bill, demanding a clean spending resolution. With DHS funding running out at the end of the month, the stalemate threatens to cause a partial government shutdown, something Boehner said this Sunday he was prepared to allow.

But today Boehner argued that with the immigration order now temporarily moot, it’s sailing time:

Pres. Obama said at least 22 times he didn’t have the authority to do what he did on #immigration. No surprise at least one court agrees.

— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) February 17, 2015

Hopefully, Senate Dems who claim to oppose this #immigration overreach will now let the Senate begin debate on our bill to #FundDHS.

— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) February 17, 2015

However the House bill goes beyond simply gutting Obama’s recent immigration action to previous orders, including his DACA order from 2012, meaning this is unlikely to be the end of the fight.

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