White House, DHS caught off guard by House's funding failure
The White House and the Department of Homeland Security were caught off guard by Friday’s defeat of a House bill to fund the agency for three weeks — and they spent several hours scrambling to figure out how to prevent a shutdown.
Until late afternoon, it looked fairly clear that the House would pass a three-week continuing resolution, the Senate would approve it — possibly without a vote — and President Barack Obama would sign it, since it would at least be better than a shutdown.
White House aides were paying attention to their vote, but not with a lot of suspense. Some were already making their weekend plans.
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Then the House fumbled its funding bill, and suddenly White House and DHS officials were running around trying to figure out the next move.
By late Friday night, the sense of crisis passed as it became clear that the solution — such as it was — would be a one-week continuing resolution to keep the department’s doors open, for a while. The House passed the one-week bill around 10 p.m., less than two hours after the Senate approved it. Obama signed the seven-day bill before midnight.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/white-house-dhs-house-funding-bill-failure-115607.html#ixzz3T4VfGeux
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