House Speaker John Boehner said House Republicans likely will have to wait until the party takes control of the Senate in early January before they push back at President Obama’s executive action on immigration.
“I think [my House GOP colleagues] understand it’s going to be difficult to take meaningful action as long as we’ve got Democratic control in the Senate,” the Ohio Republican told reporters at the Capitol Tuesday.
Boehner also brushed aside criticism that the GOP’s pending attempts to undo the president’s mandate to allow millions of undocumented workers living in the United States to remain would be nothing more than political showboating, calling the president’s move a “serious breach of our Constitution.”
Boehner said he hasn’t decided on exactly what tactic to take but vowed “we are going to proceed.”
“We’re looking at a number of options in terms of how we address this,” he said. “Frankly, we have limited options and limited abilities to deal with it directly.”
