Transcripts for CNN The Situation Room 20150227 22:07:00 : c

Transcripts for CNN The Situation Room 20150227 22:07:00

dana it's a little complicated what's going right now but we know the stakes are enormous as far as homeland security here in the united states is concerned right now. the stakes are really really critical. let's talk a little bit what has happened. there has been this debate that's been going back and forth. everybody says they want to fund the department of homeland security but the republicans didn't want to fund the president's executive action that would go ahead and take unilateral steps easing illegal immigrants' opportunities to remain in the united states. in the end, the senate, mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader, in the end he decided to put forward language that passed decisively overwhelmingly today, to keep the department of homeland security funded through the end of the fiscal year meaning until the end of september. that passed decisively. the democrats were on board, the republicans were on board. there was no mention of any immigration cutoff of spending anything along those lines, separate legislation was stalled on that. that legislation i take it now has gone over to the house of representatives, but the house

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