[elklindo69]

In a stunning blow to House Republican leaders, the chamber on Friday defeated a three-week funding measure for the Department of Homeland Security in a 203-224 vote — just hours before the top domestic anti-terrorism federal agency runs out of money at midnight.

The vote is the latest and perhaps most stinging repudiation of Speaker John Boehner and his leadership team, who have struggled repeatedly to corral rank-and-file Republicans against the backdrop of legislative crisis. The Ohio Republican has been caught between conservatives demanding that he use the DHS issue to block President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration and avoiding a funding lapse of the department.

He and other GOP leaders had been scrambling to lock down votes ahead of the vote, which was delayed Friday afternoon to give them more time to line up support. Just before 1 p.m., the House recessed. Senior GOP aides said they were on the brink of rounding up enough backing to approve the stopgap bill coupled with a motion to enter formal negotiations with the Senate. The aim had been to secure enough support to ensure that no Democrats were needed to bring the bill across the finish line.

Instead, 52 Republicans voted against the measure — after House leaders kept the vote open for nearly an hour. Only 12 Democrats ultimately voted in favor of the funding bill, but they initially held their votes close to the vest in a strategy to force the GOP to cough up their own votes

[johnforbes]

Even Jeh "12 Million Illegals" Johnson admitted that, under a shutdown, fully 85 percent of all DHS employees will come to work.

And, as always, get paid.

This is all nonsense to get spineless Boehner to fund Obama's illegal amnesty.