Boehner Doesn’t Blink as DHS Shutdown Looms

House Speaker John Boehner says the House already did its job. It’s up to the Senate now to do theirs to block President Obama’s November immigration order.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio.) said the House has no plans of revising a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, which has been filibustered by Democrats over its clauses on immigration, on February 11, 2015 in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

House Speaker John Boehner again rebuffed calls to craft an alternate version of the bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, which is being held up in the Senate by a filibuster from Democrats.

“The House did its job. We won the fight to fund the Department of Homeland Security and stop the president’s unconstitutional actions. Now it’s time for the Senate to do their work,” Boehner said on Wednesday. “The issue is Senate Democrats. Seven of them criticized the president’s executive overreach on immigration yet they continue to block the consideration of the bill.”