Hypocritical & Irresponsible GOP Continues to Threaten DHS Funding While Increasing the Deficit

With only 7 days left in session and 18 days until DHS shuts down, Speaker Boehner and Congressional Republicans continue to struggle with their obstructive...

...Homeland Security strategy

Republicans are scrambling to figure out how to avert a shutdown at the Homeland Security Department while gutting President Obama's immigration actions…The GOP's task has grown more complicated in recent weeks amid renewed threats from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)...The GOP's next step on DHS funding is unclear…Republicans in both the House and Senate are now waiting for the other chamber to go first. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) recently declared: "The House did its work," adding that it's time for the Senate "to get their act together."

But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) isn't telegraphing his next move.  And other GOP senators say the ball now lies in the House's court.

All the while, appeasing the anti-immigrant fringes of their Party will RAISE the nation's deficit:

In Congress' standoff over immigration policy, Republicans seem to be battling not only President Barack Obama but their own rhetoric on government spending.  Immigration riders attached to the Homeland Security spending bill by the House GOP turn out to actually widen the budget deficit over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

… the CBO report never addressed an added cost implicit in the Republican position: How much would it cost for the government to deport all the undocumented workers who stand to benefit from Obama's most recent executive order?  That could be upward of $20 billion to $25 billion, according to the best estimatescollected by POLITICO...CBO estimates that $22.3 billion in potential revenues would be lost from 2015 to 2025 if the House amendments were to prevail, including about $17.1 billion at the expense of Social Security.

Speaker Boehner, enough with the obstruction, dysfunction and distraction.  It's time to join Democrats, three former DHS secretaries, the U.S Conference of Mayors and the American people calling for a clean DHS funding bill.  Stop threatening our safety and appeasing the right-wing, anti-immigrant elements in your party.