President Obama would sign a bill that provides funding to the Department of Homeland Security for the next three weeks, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Friday.
Though Obama prefers a bill that keeps the Department of Homeland Security funded through September, legislation that already cleared the Senate, the president would not block a House GOP effort to pass a package lasting three weeks.
Homeland Security funding is set to run dry at midnight.
House leadership is attempting to push through a bill that would keep the agency funded for three weeks, buying time for leaders to craft a longer-term solution.
Senate Democrats have indicated they would sign the fiscal dogerblueprint.
The White House has long warned that allowing funds for DHS to expire would damage national security.
Republicans have been unable to peel off enough Democratic support to roll back Obama’s executive action on immigration, which they had hoped to tie to the DHS funding fight.
Were funding to expire, most DHS employees would still report to work — they would not collect paychecks, however.
