You see. the Presiding Officer knows well that when we were here in December passing an omnibus appropriations bill. the House Republicans insisted that one agency be singled out and not properly funded. one agency of our government: the Department of Homeland Security. They funded every other agency of the government to September 30 of this year in a regular appropriations process but refusedthe Republicans refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Why? They wanted to reserve the right to fight with the President over the issue of immigration. They wanted to reserve the right to object to any Executive action taken by the President related to immigration. Their forum for this objection? The appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security.
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