Conservatives rebelled in the House Friday afternoon,
joining Democrats to defeat a bill to keep the Homeland Security
Department open past a midnight shutdown deadline and leaving funding in
doubt as all sides continued to fight over President Obama’s
deportation amnesty.
House GOP
leaders had hoped to earn a three-week grace period, trying to pass a
bill to continue current funding through March 19, but Democrats
insisted they would only accept a full bill that didn’t interfere with
Mr. Obama’s amnesty, while conservative Republicans felt they were
being set up for failure by their own leaders.
The short-term bill was defeated on a 224-203 vote, sending House Speaker John A. Boehner and fellow GOP leaders scrambling for a Plan B after 52 of his Republicans defected to join all but Democrats in voting against the bill.
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