article_snippet: the Republicans in Congress defeated a plan pushed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to fund the Department of Homeland SecurityHomeland Security, money that congressional Republicans have been holding hostage in congressional Republicans effort to overturn President Obama's executive order on immigration.
article_snippet: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed that there would be a separate vote on the immigration issue.
article_snippet: When Speaker John Boehner proposed an even narrower compromise, funding the Department of Homeland Security for only three more weeks, Speaker John Boehner caucus said no.
article_snippet: The final bill provides funding for one more week, at which point Congress needs to take up the immigration issue again.
article_snippet: Congress has already squandered several months rather than addressing bigger questions, such as economic inequality or climate change, which the White House hoped to put at the center of political debate even if congressional Republicans refused to do anything about these problems.
article_snippet: Congress spent many months wrangling over the budget as Congress faced the real possibility of the federal government going into default.
article_snippet: Even if there is a resolution that continues funding for the Department of Homeland Security, months have been consumed on Capitol Hill.
article_snippet: Instead, Obama and Obama party have been consumed with this struggle over the budget bill.
article_snippet: When House Republicans pushed House Republicans "stop-gap" measure to fund Homeland Security for just another week, House Republicans were following the standard game plan.