GOP members are angry at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for his backing off from the demand by Congress to reverse U.S. President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration as the condition to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

McConnell gave to the Senate Democrats his vote on a DHS funding bill with no immigration measures which passed on a 98-2 vote.

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The other bill that McConnell also supported is the repeal of the executive action.

Senior members of the caucus backed McConnell's action since the approach could be the only way to fund the DHS past the deadline of Friday midnight.

But he earned the ire of Republicans in the Lower House.

One congressman described the new strategy as a cop-out, while another said it was a surrender plan.

Two wrote to House Speaker John Boehner and his deputies to remind them to remain steadfast against the president's executive action.

Unless Congress passes the stopgap bill, it has only three remaining days left to find a solution or let the DHS shutter for lack of funds, which the GOP is also avoiding for fear of political repercussion if the DHS could not perform its task of implementing anti-terrorism measures.

DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson described the situation on Wednesday as crunch time and the department's clock ticks closer to midnight as the agency runs out of funds.

Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma forecast on Tuesday night that McConnell's proposal would get House approval because the Texas's federal judge order effectively stopped Obama's executive action in the meantime.

Meanwhile, the president met with immigration activists before he left for Florida.

One of the activists quoted Obama as saying that the Republicans are engaged in a "show" to appease conservatives who refuse his use of presidential action to address the country's immigration problem.

TagsImmigration Reform, Mitch McConnell, GOP