House Sues Obama, Then Tells Him to Ignore Congress
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 2nd, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
House Sues Obama, Then Tells Him to Ignore Congress
On Wednesday, House Republicans sued President Barack Obama for acting on his own without approval from Congress. On Thursday, House Republicans told Obama he should act on his own to fix the border crisis. The messaging whiplash resulted from Speaker John Boehner’s failure to pass a Republican spending bill that would provide $659 million to help stem the child migrant crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border. In a statement following the decision to abruptly scrap a vote on the measure, Boehner and his fellow GOP leaders tried to put the onus back on Obama, saying the president had the power to act unilaterally, “without the need for congressional action,” to respond to the crisis.
