Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Has A Ted Cruz Problem

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Has A Ted Cruz Problem

by Ailsa Chang at NPR

http://www.npr.org/2015/02/03/383576722/ted-cruz-could-create-a-republican-dilemma-for-McConnell

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A bill funding the Department of Homeland Security failed in the Senate Tuesday because it would block the president's executive action on deportations. The question now is, what will Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell try next?

The department runs out of money on Feb. 27. Texas senator and potential presidential candidate Ted Cruz insists DHS not get any money unless Republicans get to undo the president's immigration policies. That places McConnell in a dilemma — how does he placate Cruz and his allies while avoiding a shutdown of the agency?

Republican Cruz has vowed he will stop at nothing to block the president's executive action on immigration. And when you ask him exactly how he intends to do that, he says it's already in writing. Go look it up.

"I wrote a long op-ed two months ago, laying [out] precisely what we should do. We should use the power of confirmations and we should use the power of the purse," Cruz said as he slipped into an elevator at the Capitol.




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[yortsed snacilbuper]

1. Is ted cruz like a,

hemorrhoid?

[gopiscrap]

2. hope they rip each other to shreds

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3. Ted could be more damaging than Bachman

Last edited Wed Feb 4, 2015, 03:29 AM - Edit history (1)

was to the GOP brand.