Homeland Security site of looming fund fight

The Homeland Security Department’s funding is due to expire Feb. 27, a date chosen by Republicans in December, as they worked out a deal to keep the rest of the government up and running through much of 2015. Republicans are using this deadline as leverage to push the President on immigration, in the wake of what they see as overreach by the President for his executive orders last year.

Last week, the White House said Obama would not change his position on immigration to broker a compromise on Department of Homeland Security funding.

“I disagree with any Republican who says letting funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapse is not the end of the world,” Obama said to House Democrats last Thursday.

“Well, what do you mean it’s not the end of the world? That’s all you’ve been talking about. And now, suddenly, because you want to make a political point, you think that we can afford to have the Department of Homeland Security not functioning, because of political games in Washington?”

CNN