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House GOP unveils $40B spending bill for Homeland Security
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By Rebecca Shabad – 01/09/15 02:33 PM EST
The House Appropriations Committee on Friday afternoon unveiled a nearly $40 billion bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through September.
The 98-page measure is the last of the 12 fiscal 2015 appropriations bills, and the House plans to consider it on the floor Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Congress must pass a new spending bill for DHS before Feb. 27 or the department could shut down.
“The funding in this bill is targeted to critical security and law enforcement efforts that keep our nation and people safe, and ensure the laws of the land are strongly enforced,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) said in a statement.
The base bill, which provides an increase of $400 million above last year’s levels, excludes language that would defund President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, which he announced in November. A GOP-sponsored amendment that would nullify those executive orders is expected next week.
A comment from Taitz.
You can see that GOP completely sold out. The only way they could stop Obama’s lawless actions, was with an express language which would defund Obama’s amnesty. This language is not in the bill.