WASHINGTON -- A House Republican effort to punt on Department of Homeland Security funding failed on the floor Friday, leaving the GOP leadership in a bind on whether to throw in the towel and pass a budget bill without immigration measures.
It's back to the drawing board with only hours to go until a DHS shutdown.
The vote failed 203 to 224, an embarrassing loss after Republican leadership had predicted they had the votes to get the three-week continuing resolution through. Fifty-two Republicans voted against funding DHS for even a matter of weeks without riders to block President Barack Obama's deportation relief and work authorization for undocumented immigrants.
House Democrats could have pushed the bill over the line, but most instead opposed it in hopes that its failure would force Republicans to fund the department for the full year, free of restrictive immigration measures.
The Senate had approved a clean DHS funding bill earlier Friday in a 68-31 vote. The upper chamber elected to vote first on funding for the department and then work later on a bill to stop the president's 2014 executive actions on immigration.
The House elected earlier Friday to not pass the Senate's bill, but instead to try to go to conference to combine both chambers' measures. There's little room for compromise, however, and Senate Democratic leaders have firmly rejected the idea of going to conference.
The plan was for the House to approve the three-week funding bill and then leave town for the weekend. Now, the fate of DHS funding is uncertain. Members will likely huddle later Friday to work up another plan.
It's back to the drawing board with only hours to go until a DHS shutdown.
The vote failed 203 to 224, an embarrassing loss after Republican leadership had predicted they had the votes to get the three-week continuing resolution through. Fifty-two Republicans voted against funding DHS for even a matter of weeks without riders to block President Barack Obama's deportation relief and work authorization for undocumented immigrants.
House Democrats could have pushed the bill over the line, but most instead opposed it in hopes that its failure would force Republicans to fund the department for the full year, free of restrictive immigration measures.
The Senate had approved a clean DHS funding bill earlier Friday in a 68-31 vote. The upper chamber elected to vote first on funding for the department and then work later on a bill to stop the president's 2014 executive actions on immigration.
The House elected earlier Friday to not pass the Senate's bill, but instead to try to go to conference to combine both chambers' measures. There's little room for compromise, however, and Senate Democratic leaders have firmly rejected the idea of going to conference.
The plan was for the House to approve the three-week funding bill and then leave town for the weekend. Now, the fate of DHS funding is uncertain. Members will likely huddle later Friday to work up another plan.
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