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Ted Cruz Pushes the House to Have All-Out Spending Fight on Obama Immigration Action
Sen. Ted Cruz is playing de facto House conservatives leader once again.
Taking the podium Wednesday at an outdoor presser beside the House's most vocal border security hawks, Reps. Steve King and Michele Bachmann, Cruz slid comfortably back into a familiar place: being a thorn in the side of elected House leaders.
While House Speaker John Boehner has been trying to rally Republicans around a plan to fund the government before the Dec. 11 deadline, the most-conservative members in the chamber want to confront President Obama's executive action on immigration more aggressively.
At Wednesday's press conference, it appeared that some of the House's hardliners are rallying around Cruz's strategy–gut Obama's effort on immigration by defunding it in the must-pass spending bill, now. Cruz is calling for a rider stripping funding for the executive action.
"We fought a bloody revolution to free ourselves from monarchs," Cruz said.
Cruz also accused members of Congress of not being honest with those who elected them a month ago.
"Do what you said you would do," he said.
Cruz then had a message for Democrats. He argued that Obama's actions set a precedent where any future president can discard congressional wishes on everything from immigration to taxes.
"What the president is doing is dangerous," Cruz said. "If the president doesn't have to follow the law, what is the point of electing Congress?"
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