Rep. McCaul: ‘We Are Not Going To Shut the Government Down’

‘We are not going to shut the government down, but we are going to shut down this president’

Rep. McCaul: ‘We Are Not Going to Shut the Government Down’ (National Review Online)

Representative Mike McCaul (R., Texas), the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, suggested that Congress should exercise the “power of the purse” to combat President Obama’s executive action on immigration, but repeatedly vowed that a government shut down would not occur.

“We are not going to shut the government down, but we are going to shut down this president and his actions as it pertains to granting amnesty to 5 million people,” he told Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation Sunday. He suggested that there were “various options on the table” to accomplish this, but did not specify what they might be. McCaul called for “in the long term” moving ahead with piece-meal legislation on immigration, beginning with a border-security bill.

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