Subject: GOP’s Dangerous Political Games with DHS
From: DNC Press <[email-masked]>
To: DNC Press <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:37:31 +0000

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Just months after Republican<http://www.salon.com/2014/10/08/thom_tillis_ebola_hysteria_a_toxic_mix_of_unfounded_panic_and_awful_policy/> fear-mongering over the possibility of Ebola crossing our Southern border<http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/01/politics/rand-paul-ebola/index.html?hpt=po_c2>, including by those who wished to  enact bioterrorism<http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/gop-congressman-says-american-jihadis-might-return-to-us-wit?utm_term=fuyj9j#.esMeKNQB9r>, and one week after Republicans called for a renewed focus on our need to fight terrorism here at home, Republicans in Congress are taking major steps to restrict funding for the department that protects Americans at home. And this reckless behavior, all for the sake of a political talking point.

Today, House Republicans are voting to support measures that restrict funding for and, even worse, risk shutting down, the Department of Homeland Security.  They have made their partisan motives clear with Speaker Boehner, himself, saying that the Department of Homeland Security funding bill would pose “a direct challenge” to President Obama’s executive actions to improve our broken immigration system.

What’s worse is that Congressional Republicans are moving forward even after Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has urged Congress to pass the funding bill “unburdened by any restrictions” because “there are homeland security and border security priorities that must be funded without delay.”

In response, please attribute the following quote to DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz:

“Once again, Republicans are putting politics in the way of governing, this time risking the security of our country because they are so set on deporting individuals who have been in this country for years, just trying to take care of their families. Not to mention that Republicans continually cite border security, something that could suffer greatly as a result of their actions, as the reason to hold up comprehensive immigration reform. This is grossly irresponsible. Clearly Congressional Republicans are out of control and willing to harm our nation because of their obsessions.”

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