Nov
28
Govt Report Says Congress Can ‘Defund’ Amnesty
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A week ago, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers declared that Congress would not be able to defund government spending as a way to circumvent President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration because the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is self-funded through fees collected on immigration applications.
But Rogers was wrong, according to Breitbart News, which reports that the Congressional Research Service — a nonpartisan branch of the Library of Congress that provides public policy research — concluded that Congress has the authority to block the funding needed to implement the executive order, which grants de facto amnesty to some five million illegal immigrants.
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