“The president supports the passage of this compromise proposal and would sign it if it arrives on his desk,” Earnest told journalists during a press briefing Thursday.
Earnest went on to describe the reasons why the proposed 2015 budget bill merits Obama’s support.
“The proposal includes $5.4 billion dollars to fight Ebola…also includes substantial funding at the president’s request to ongoing effort to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL [Islamic State],” he said.
“This compromise proposal does not include riders that would significantly gut the president’s ability to implement the Affordable Care Act or to implement the executive actions that would reform our broken immigration system,” the spokesperson explained.
Earlier on Thursday, US Republican House Speaker John Boehner said that the House budget bill is very likely to pass in US Congress before the deadline expires at midnight.
The proposed 1,600-page legislation will fund the US government through September 2015 with the exception of US Department of Homeland Security that would receive funding only through February 2015 in order to return to immigration debates in spring of 2015.
