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Is going to happen in the next week? >> reporter: that ultimately dhs is going to be funded. they don't think this looks good for anyone. this was a nail biter with less than two hours before department of homeland security was set to shutdown. they passed a one week resolution to keep dhs open. earlier in the evening boehner brought to a vote a bill that would have funded the agency for three full weeks but boehner failed to get enough votes from his own party. that short term proposal failed. conservative republicans want any slagz that funds the dhs to also block the president's immigration...

John boehner and the tea partiers in the caucus lost big-time today. this evening boehner was asked about the political consequences of digging in his heels on payroll taxes and whether it was worth it. here's the answer. >> doing the right thing for the right reasons is always the right thing to do. and while everyone asked for a full-year extension of these programs, a lot of people weren't willing to put the effort in as the holidays were approaching to get it done. our members were. >> joining me now is e.j. dion, senior fellow at the brookings institution and columnist for the "washington...

John boehner and the tea partiers in the caucus lost big-time today. this evening boehner was asked about the political consequences of digging in his heels on payroll taxes and whether it was worth it. here's the answer. >> doing the right thing for the right reasons is always the right thing to do. and while everyone asked for a full-year extension of these programs, a lot of people weren't willing to put the effort in as the holidays were approaching to get it done. our members were. >> joining me now is e.j. dion, senior fellow at the brookings institution and columnist for the "washington...

To shut down. congress passed a one-week extension to keep the agency open. that short-term resolution came after an embarrassing defeat for house speaker john boehner. early in the evening boehner brought to a vote a bill that would have funded the agency for three weeks. but he failed to get members of his own party. so ultimately that proposal failed. conservative republicans want any legislation that funds dhs to also block the president's immigration action which would provide relief to millions of immigrants. they argue the president has overstepped his constitutional authority. the pres...

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