This Is What Republican Control Of Congress Looks Like
WASHINGTON — For John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, the honeymoon is over.
The 114th Congress was supposed to be a Golden Era for the Republicans to flex their muscle in the twilight of Barack Obama's presidency with their largest congressional majority in generations.
But the relationship between the emotional and jocular House speaker and the chilly and introverted Senate majority leader is already strained less than two months into the new era of Republican control.
The two leaders met privately on Wednesday, hours after Boehner's surprising admission that they hadn't spoken in two weeks. They face their first monumental test, on how to fund the Department of Homeland Security while placating their base's fury over Obama's unilateral initiatives on immigration to shield millions of people from deportation.
"You know, our staff talk back and forth and — listen, Senator McConnell has got a big job to do. So do I," Boehner said, when asked about the lack of communication between the two. But, a reporter protested, wasn't it important that they speak to each other about an issue as important as keeping Homeland Security running?
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