GOP options narrow on Homeland Security funding

House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R., Texas) said he expected the House would “dispose of” the matter this week, and suggested that the immigration fight is likely to be out of the hands of Congress.

“We’re going to count on the judges,” Mr. Sessions said. A federal judge in Texas last month temporarily blocked Mr. Obama’s immigration actions, saying they should have been issued in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. The Obama administration has appealed that ruling.

A budget fight this early in a new Congress is the result of unfinished business from last year, when Republicans deferred action on homeland-security money while agreeing to fund the rest of the government through fiscal 2015.