Some House leaders, eager to avoid a politically dangerous fight over the passage of an essential government funding bill, appear ready to take the “power of the purse” off the table when it comes to legislative action aimed at blocking President Obama’s pending changes to deportation policy.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers said Thursday that Obama’s executive action, which would legalize up to 5 million people, would be administered by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency funded entirely by fees, not Congress.