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Boehner: Obama ‘AWOL’ on Border Crisis

By Matt Fuller and JM Rieger

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With time running out before the August recess, Speaker John A. Boehner is talking with his colleagues about a supplemental spending package to address the flood of children crossing the border, but put the onus on Democrats and the White House to move in the GOP’s direction. “It’s time for the White House to get their act together,” the Ohio Republican said. “This is a problem of the president’s own making. And then he tries to — says he wants to solve the problem, so we that we can stop this influx, but then he changes his mind. We’ve got a president that’s AWOL. And the president ought to get engaged in this if he actually wants something to happen.”

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