Posted on 02/19/2015 6:02:14 AM PST by cotton1706
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Thursday said Congress should not let the Department Homeland Security (DHS) shut down because it appears the courts will decide the fate of President Obama's executive actions on immigration.
On MSNBCs Morning Joe, McCain was asked what he would say to his GOP colleagues in Congress about making sure DHS is funded by Feb. 27.
I would put sufficient blame on the Democrats for not allowing us to move forward in the Senate. But having said that, now Im hopeful with this court decisionwith the declaration that the president himself has acted unconstitutionally as he himself stated I think 22 timesthat we would let the courts move forward with this issue since we have a favorable ruling, he said.
McCain didn't explicitly say Republicans should drop riders the House GOP attached to the DHS funding bill that would roll back Obama's immigration orders, but suggested that might be the best course of action.
Its not a good idea to shut down the Department of Homeland Security, he said. We should be working together despite the obstruction of our Democratic colleagues to resolve this issue so that we dont shut it down. Now we have the perfect reason to not shut it down because the courts have decided, at least initially, in our favor.
McCain was referring to the ruling a Texas judge issued late Monday that temporarily halted the immigration actions Obama unveiled last November. As a result, DHS had to freeze its plans to implement part of those actions on Wednesday.
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Wakeup Arizona ,retire this old Fool
Juan is a fool.
McCain is so last Century! Go away already...
Every time he opens his pie trap he further diminishes any
“stature” the U.S. Senate ever had.
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