re: This information about the GOP in Congress deserves its own thread

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The Republicans were morally outraged and their response was to fund Obama’s executive order to the tune of $2.5 billion. There’s $948 million for the Department of Health and Human Service’s unaccompanied children program — an $80 million increase. The department also gets $14 million to help school districts absorbing new immigrant students. And the State Department gets $260 million to assist Central American countries from where of the immigrant children are coming.

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None of that spending has anything to do with his "executive order", which isn't technically an EO in the first place.

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The Republicans have run against Obamacare since the day it was passed in 2009. They have threatened to overturn it, de-fund it, and scale it back. This spending bill fully funds Obamacare just as it was passed. Dozens of Republicans voted for a spending bill that fully funds the program they despise.

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Defunding is something only the nuts have threatened to do. Obviously the smart one know that that would be a terrible way to overturn it.