article_snippet: The spat is the latest indication that the respective goodwill professed by the White House and GOP leaders after November's elections, when Republicans were swept into control of Congress, has since soured and is now curdling.
article_snippet: Battling for control of the federal government with the executive branch, the first few months of the GOP's reign over the executive branch has been marked by constant bickering with the White House and numerous veto threats.
article_snippet: In an attempt to balance what they saw as executive overreach on the part of the president, who in November took unilateral action to save millions of illegal immigrants from deportation against the wishes of Republicans in Congress, the GOP last month attempted to hold captive funding for the Homeland Security department.
article_snippet: the GOP ended up with egg on the GOP face, though, when the GOP opted to back down from the fight and appropriate money to the Homeland Security department rather than watching the Homeland Security department to go into shut down mode until Democrats backed a measure to defund Obama's immigration directives - a scenario that may have never come about.
article_snippet: House Republicans in January also stuck House Republicans finger in the eye of the Obama administration when Boehner secretly invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress.
article_snippet: You've got to hand it to Republicans, that Republicans've taken even a measure as common sense as that and turned it into a partisan controversy,' Obama's spokesman said today. '
highlights_snippet: Spat is the latest indication that the respective goodwill professed by the White House and GOP leaders after November's elections is curdling .