House Speaker John Boehner, pressed Thursday if he’d guarantee DHS wouldn’t be shut down, sidestepped the question, and instead repeated his mantra: The House had done its job.
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“We’ve passed a bill to fund the department and stop the President’s unilateral action with regard to immigration,” Boehner said in his weekly press conference.
But action is stalled on that bill.
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GOP Rep. Mike Simpson predicted some deal would emerge at the last minute.
“We won’t shut the government down, that would be really really stupid,” he told CNN.
While he conceded no one knew how the final days of this debate would play out, he said one thing was all but guaranteed — the fight over the DHS bill will go right up until the deadline on Feb. 28th.
