WASHINGTON ¨C House Republican leaders are trying to persuade members not to risk a U.S. government shutdown in responding to President Barack Obama¡¯s plan to ease the deportation of undocumented immigrants.
House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers has offered a plan that would keep the government operating after current funding expires Dec. 11. Rogers of Kentucky said he wants to finance the government for a full year, and retroactively cancel money in 2015 for any immigration action ordered by the president.
That would avoid a repeat of the 16-day partial government shutdown in October 2013 caused by a standoff over Republican insistence on using a government spending bill to defund Obama¡¯s health care law. Republicans¡¯ public approval plunged.
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