Boehner-McConnell gap sign of trouble for DHS
Posted on AllSides February 25th, 2015
From The Left
They've known for months that Congress would face a late February deadline to keep the Department of Homeland Security running.
Yet the top Republican leaders in Congress -- House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- haven't talked to each other for two weeks until Wednesday.
That revelation was a clear sign that Congress is on the verge of letting the agency run out of money at the end of the day on Friday, furloughing some workers while requiring other to show up to work without being...