Breitbart News -- Caroline May
House Republican leadership’s strategy of waiting to combat President Obama’s executive amnesty via the power of the purse until next year is a ‘punt’ and a cowardly one, according to Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ). “To me the old adage ‘he who fights and runs away lives to fight another day’ is a coward,” Salmon tells reporters Tuesday.
Salmon is one of the conservative lawmakers who argue that the must-pass government funding measure — set to be unveiled Tuesday afternoon according to GOP aides — should include language to defund Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
Instead, Republicans are expected to offer a bill that would fund most of the government through September 2015 but only fund the Department of Homeland Security, which is implementing Obama’s executive orders, to February in order to allow Congress to take up the issue with a Republican House and Republican Senate.
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