Republicans: We will get blamed for DHS shutdown
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Republicans: We will get blamed for DHS shutdown
By Scott Wong - 02/14/15 06:00 AM EST
Republicans are getting pummeled in the messaging wars amid an escalating standoff over Homeland Security funding.
In interviews with The Hill, centrist Republicans are conceding that their party — not the Democrats — will be blamed if the critical agency shuts down at the end of the month.
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Meanwhile, Democrats are presenting a united front, calling for a so-called “clean” DHS funding bill free of any controversial GOP riders targeting President Obama’s executive immigration actions.
“More likely Republicans will be blamed. We control the House and the Senate,” former Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.) told The Hill on Friday. Americans “know that we caused the last government shutdown, so we have the lasting specter of Ted Cruz hanging over us,” he added.
“Especially in New York, you’re reading about ISIS, about Paris, reading about beheadings and people burned to death, and our response is to shut down Homeland Security?” asked King, who lost more than 100 constituents in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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“They’ve dug this hole, they’re deep in the hole, they’re busy pointing fingers at each other and they will have to get out of it,” said Schumer, who leads Senate Democrats’ messaging operation.
The sprawling Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will partially shut down and stop paying thousands of employees on Feb. 28 unless Congress agrees on a way to fund it.
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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/232850-republicans-we-will-get-blamed-for-dhs-shutdown
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