House GOP Offering a Fraction of What Obama Asks to Fix Border Crisis

John Moore/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — House Republicans are offering a relative pittance of what President Obama is asking to help shelter and deport tens of thousands of Central American children who crossed the border into Texas.

While the president said $3.7 billion is needed, the GOP is only willing to ante up $659 million, which is even less than half of what House lawmakers proposed last week.

The Republican plan also includes a provision untenable to most Democrats: it would do away with an amendment in a 2008 law that protects Central American migrants from immediate deportation if stopped by Border Patrol agents.

There is also resistance within the GOP from those on the far right who don’t want to provide any emergency funding at all.

Even if a House bill does pass, with a vote likely scheduled for Thursday, there’s virtually no chance of it getting approved by the Senate.

With Congress heading out of town after that for a five-week recess, any emergency funding package is probably dead through the end of the year with lawmakers focusing their efforts on the midterm elections.

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