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Pelosi Statement on House Republicans’ Third Vote to Block Clean Homeland Security Funding

February 25, 2015

Contact: Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi today released the following statement after Republicans voted for the third time to block a clean appropriations bill to prevent the Department of Homeland Security from shutting down on February 28.

"Republicans are trapped in a dangerous, anti-immigrant fantasy. There are barely three days left before their grandstanding shuts down the Department of Homeland Security, but Republicans still have no plan to avert their latest manufactured crisis.

"With every House Democrat cosponsoring clean DHS funding legislation, it is clear this crisis only exists because Republicans prioritize anti-immigrant extremists over the safety of the American people. Republicans must end this madness and join Democrats to fund Homeland Security immediately."

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