NBC reporter Luke Russert said on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that a Republican-passed Department of Homeland Security funding bill was “far-right,” especially an amendment that would repeal one of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. (RELATED: NBC Reporter Calls Anti-Boehner Republicans ‘The Kamikaze Caucus’)
“The one amendment that jumped out to me though, Andrea, was from Marsha Blackburn, a conservative member from Tennessee. It passed barely by a vote of 218-209, 26 Republicans voted against it. This amendment specifically would repeal DACA. That’s of course the order that President Obama put forward in 2012, which allows the children of undocumented immigrants who came to the country through no fault of their own to stay here. They moved here in the Republican House to repeal that.
That’s very far to the right for a lot of Republicans. You saw that reflected in the vote with 26 Republicans voting against it. That’s also a problematic vote in the presidential circles. It also is a problematic vote for Republicans that come from blue states in the Senate who are up for reelection in 2016. It also shows us, Andrea, albeit small, there is a small faction of House Republicans that are perhaps a little turned off by how far-right the leadership allowed this bill on funding the Department of Homeland Security to go.”