Sessions denounces House GOP plan to fund government

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The top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee on Tuesday denounced a House GOP plan that would fund the government without blocking President Obama’s directive to stem the deportation of illegal immigrants.

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama said the House plan does nothing to stop Obama’s executive action, which would allow more than 4 million people now living here illegally to apply for work permits and eventually obtain Social Security and Medicare benefits.

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