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The White House strongly rebuked a one-week funding extension for the Department of Homeland Security, calling it reflective of the House's "failed" Republican leadership.
"That is bad policy," White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters, who added that President Barack Obama was "disappointed" that he had to sign the short-term funding bill.
"The fact that the president had to sign a seven-day extension doesn't just reflect a bad decision made by the Republican leadership in the House, it reflects the failed leadership of the Republican leadership in the House," he said
The House voted 357-60 late Friday night to fund Homeland Security for one week. The Senate also lent its approval, and Obama signed the bill shortly before the agency that guards America's borders was to run out of funding.
Unlike all other departments, congressional Republicans singled out Homeland Security last year for short-term funding in a bid to force Obama to reverse course on executive actions he took to shield nearly 5 million undocumented migrants from deportation.
Lawmakers now have until midnight Friday to continue funding for the department.
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