Obama will sign executive order on immigration by year’s end
*It hasn’t taken long for this to turn into a political showdown. Yesterday, President Obama signaled he’d sign an immigration executive order by the year’s end, and the GOP is saying he’d do better to give the new Congress a chance to act on their own. Today, Sen. John McCain says an executive order would be a disaster, not the way government is run. That sounds like a not-so-veiled threat, or a dare. VL
WASHINGTON — One day after sweeping Republican election gains, President Barack Obama and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pledged to try and turn divided government into a force for good rather than gridlock on Wednesday, yet warned of veto showdowns as well. He also pledged to sign an executive order on immigration by year’s end.
Immigration loomed as one early irritant.
Obama said that unless Congress takes action by the end of the year, he will order a reduction in deportations of working immigrants living in the country illegally.
He made his pledge a short while after McConnell warned him against acting unilaterally.
“It’s like waving a red flag in front of a bull to say if you guys don’t do what I want I’m going to do it on my own,” McConnell said at a news conference in Kentucky.
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