Funding for the department expires at midnight on Friday.
With less than two days to go before a Department of Homeland Security shutdown, John Boehner isn’t blinking.
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“We passed a bill to fund the department six weeks ago. Six weeks ago!” the House speaker said during a press conference Thursday. “It’s time for the Senate to act. How many times do I have to say it?”
Boehner doesn’t appear to be going along with his Republican counterparts in the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is looking to avert a shutdown by offering Democrats a clean funding bill for DHS. The speaker would not say whether he would back a Senate funding bill without provisions that would defund President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. At one point, Boehner blew kisses at reporters after they asked whether he would.
