The Speaker’s move to name check Cruz and Sessionstwo conservatives who prodded the House to tie funding for the Department of Homeland security to measures to block the Administration’s immigrations policies was a deliberate move to shift the focus to the Senate.
Rank and file House GOP members across the political spectrum have said they have done everything they can to deny the administration the ability to implement its executive actions on immigration. They are eager to pass the baton to Cruz, along with the pressure to explain the strategy now for trying to pass the House bill, which multiple aides acknowledge doesn’t have the 60 votes needed to avoid a Democratic filibuster in the Senate.
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“We’ll send them something else. Ultimately there may be a clean bill sent,” Carter said.
Ted Barrett contributed to this report.
