How can we expect an agency to effectively function when the availability of funding for critical new endeavors is undetermined for a quarter of the fiscal year or more? How can we. as a Congress. even perform effective oversight when we force ourselves to simultaneously finish 2015 funding as we consider the 2016 request? Ironically. the two agencies that stand to lose the most from this flawed Republican strategy are the very agencies they purport to champion. agencies responsible for immigration enforcement: Customs and Border Protection. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Under the House bill. these two agencies combined would receive nearly $1 billion more than the current spending level. which a CR would reflect. The bill we are not passing would provide that additional funding. Republicans. however. appear more interested in scoring political points than in actually making progress on the border. Now. the apparent intent of the House majority in holding back fullyear funding for DHS is to help them reverse the Presidents executive actions on immigration policy. but how is that going to really play out? Without 60 votes in the Senate. the bill will go nowhere. Even if the Senate were to pass the bill with the poison pill riders intact. the President would certainly veto it with absolutely no chance the House or Senate could override that veto.
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