strikes me as something we can t afford. i ll put that down as dead as well. see? well today mitch mcconnell and john boehner don t seem exactly chummy. this is the department of homeland security is about to be defunded. we re talking about the men and women who protect our airports our boarders and our president. republicans in the house refused to pass a funding refused to pass a bill funding homeland security unless it includes a provision knocking down president obama s executive action on immigration. the speaker brought a vote to the floor, it was just a clean vote on dhs that funded what i believe an unconstitutional action. i m not going to be part of funding something i believe is unconstitutional. i believe that s a der re liblgtion of my oath of office and i m not going to be part of that. john boehner has a very very difficult job. is there any way out? why isn t he talking more with mitch mcconnell? let s talk to anna navorro. hi anna. hi carol.
what will americans do and why? again you got the republicans playing games at first. most americanings would think, if you look at the polls and how harry reid possibly doing it. i think they will come to pass really quickly today. i find it hard to believe that they won t but for this. but what will americans think in the age of isis playing games with important homeland security? once again, both sides approving, the vast majority of the american public these people can t do tear job. they are literally in this case playing with people s lives, tsa agents. we re not talking about people who work at a hedge funds, they re supposedly if they go on strike, rather if there is no bill funding them they have to work through no pay. you are forcing people to work with no pay. i want to see a member of the house and senate go out pay. they live paycheck to paycheck.
with positions that might come back to bite them in the next election. so far however, none of that has panned out. today republicans are one plausible shot that is built to fast tract the keystone pipeline reached an inevitable conclusion. since barack obama is not running for reelection the political cost of said veto appears to be nothing. republicans other big political gambit has been to repudiate his executive action protecting millions of people from deportation deportation. the way they would do that is attaching the measure to a must pass bill funding the department of homeland security. it has been a game of chicken with republicans threatening to shut down dhs unless they allow the provision to go through. now in the final stretch, senate
with the house s side of business. the senator from texas may lose a couple of allies in the house come next january. how does this funding war end? does cruz have enough teeth to stop boehner s plan? ted cruz s goal is to prevent boehner from having enough votes to pass a bill funding the government with only republicans. that would force him to either go back and try to get some of those conservatives on his side by maybe taking up cruz s strategy of the funding for department of homeland security or have to turn to democrats. until yesterday, it wasn t clear turning to democrats was a viable option. a lot would prefer to fund the government through the year and get rid of this fight right now. suggested they might be okay with what boehner s trying to do splitting up funding with bills that fund most of the government and then with
would have went your way, the president would have vetoed that and you would have been back not necessarily. if you made the case to the people that obamacare would have wouldn t have succeeded, there would have been pressure on the president. and if he needed a face-saving repeal, this is delayed until we get our act together, but i think that could have potentially been achievable if we had been united. in fact, a fox news poll taken at the time found a sizable minority amount of americans did want to defund the law and a majority liked the idea of delaying it. that is what the house tried next, passing a bill funding the government, but delaying obamacare one year. we re not going to bound tea party anarchists. to senate democrats, delay was as much a nonstarter as defund. obamacare is the law of the