House Republican leaders canceled a vote on the Republican border funding bill today after failing to muster enough GOP support to pass it.
This ensures that Congress will go on its five-week recess without sending the President legislation to address what both parties agree is a humanitarian crisis along the southern border.
The House GOP bill would have approved $659 million for the border crisis - already dramatically cut back from the Obama administration's $3.7 billion request - and it would have added policy provisions strongly opposed by Democrats.
Facing a wall of Democratic opposition to the measure, GOP leaders were relying on Republicans for approval. But many in their caucus, mostly conservatives, argued against approving any new money and said they believe the measure didn't go far enough in putting restrictions on the President from using his executive authority to allow illegal immigrants to stay.
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