Could immigration cause another government shutdown?

*On to the big picture. President Obama has signaled that he’ll make his immigration executive order move this week. What we don’t know is what that executive order will contain, although there’s speculation that it’ll most likely gran some sort of resident status to the 11 million undocumented living in the U.S. We’ll see … Meanwhile, there’s talk about a GOP led government shutdown if the President moves unilaterally on immigration. It didn’t take long; business as usual. VL

By Deirdre Walsh, CNN

Washington (CNN) — Congressional Republicans are vowing to fight President Barack Obama’s plan to make immigration changes through executive action, but they are struggling with how to do that without triggering another government shutdown.

The House and Senate need to pass a measure during the lame duck session to fund federal agencies, which will run out of money in mid-December. House conservatives are pressing Speaker John Boehner to attach language to the spending bill that would block any money for federal agencies to give out any new visas or green cards.

But House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Kentucky, who is crafting a yearlong so-called “omnibus” spending measure, warned that effort could trigger a shutdown, and insisted no one wants to go down that road.

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