The unbiased ABC News calls the cromnibus (continuing resolution/omnibus) “a crooked mechanism [lawmakers] hope will provide enough cover for a feisty cadre of conservatives who are crowing over the president’s executive actions on immigration reform.” MSNBC said its point is to “thread a ridiculous needle – preventing a shutdown [and] placating angry, right-wing House members.” U.S. News and World Report calls it “a tortured GOP strategy to stick it to President Barack Obama and make a bold statement on immigration and border security.”
U.S. News more helpfully describes it this way:
Congress would pass an omnibus funding bill to keep almost the entire government running into September 2015. However, the Department of Homeland Security – the department that deals with the implementation of Obama’s executive action on immigration, which the Republicans hate – would limp along on a mere continuing resolution that would fund it until sometime next March. That would give Republicans time and opportunity to pressure the Obama administration into backing off its executive action somehow – or at least isolate the DHS budget so Republicans, who next year will control both the House and Senate, could deny the funds needed to implement the action.
Will they release the massive #CRomnibus tonight? If so, lawmakers will have less 48 hours before Wednesday vote.
— Heritage Action (@Heritage_Action) December 9, 2014
No.
Deal to avoid government shutdown almost done, Sen. Barbara Mikulski says. http://t.co/7O27UufSTe.
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) December 9, 2014
Talking to people tonight, a serious case of "hot potato" underway between aides to various #cromnibus negotiators.
— Ed O'Keefe (@edokeefe) December 9, 2014
Leaders spent most of Monday reviewing final details of massive spending bill, but plan to unveil tonight collapsed: http://t.co/AYnjmYJEzV
— Ed O'Keefe (@edokeefe) December 9, 2014
There was talk the cromnibus would be ready Monday, but there’s still time — and hopefully some backbone left among the GOP.
#Cromnibus won't be released tonight (as originally planned), will be released tomorrow, per congressional leadership aide. Deadline Thurs.
— Rebecca Shabad (@RebeccaShabad) December 9, 2014
Please call congress again tomorrow! Cromnibus Stalling Behind Closed Doors. We can stop GOP & OBAMA! http://t.co/GiXHvTX5Ft
— MAGA MANIAC (@LJSpagnoli) December 9, 2014
https://twitter.com/TrueIsayUntoYou/status/542135646937038848
https://twitter.com/ChuckNellis/status/542134267036196864
Breitbart reports that “Numbers USA, an anti-amnesty grassroots organization, is scoring a vote for the GOP leadership’s CRomnibus bill as a vote for amnesty,” while the Center for Immigration Studies’s Jessica Vaughan told Laura Ingraham that “the omnibus will fund the release of thousands more criminal illegal aliens into American communities.”
https://twitter.com/He_Has_Failed/status/542134994106601472
#CROmnibus? How about #CRAPnibus. Elections have meaning. We didn't create a wave to compromise or feign victory. #GOP #LNYHBT #tcot
— PattiO (@soylentbeige) December 2, 2014
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