House Leaders Cancel Vote on Emergency Supplemental Funding for Mexico Border C-Span | |
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Fox News Update: President Obama warned Friday that he may act on his own to address immigration challenges along the southern border, as Congress prepared to leave for the August recess without sending a bill to his desk.
House Republican leaders have cancelled a final vote on a emergency funding supplemental bill, one that would have provided $659 million to address the tide of unaccompanied immigrant children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border seeking refuge from violence in Central America.
House rank-and-file lawmakers earlier Thursday approved a rule governing debate on the underlying bill, but a vote scheduled for early afternoon was postponed, and later cancelled.
The bill would have provided far lower than the $3.7 billion President Obama sought to deal with the border, and it doesn't include money for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system or to fight western U.S. wildfires included in a Senate bill introduced by Senate Appropriations Chair Barbara Mikulski (D-MD).
House Appropriations Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-NY) noted the disparity as she debated panel chairman Harold Rogers (R-KY) on the bill earlier Thursday.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said in a Thursday news conference that the House would not "accept it back from the Senate in any fashion."
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Republican-authored legal changes in the legislation weren't welcome at Thursday's White House press conference.
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