Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) incited a group of U.S. House Republicans and rallied against the border crisis emergency fund bill that prompted an extended House session on Friday.

A little less than a day before the scheduled vote on the US$ 659 million emergency fund bill, Cruz urged his House allies not to pass the bill if a provision on a tougher deportation policy is not incorporated in the proposed law.

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Initiated by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), the emergency fund bill seeks to address the continuous surge of undocumented child migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Republican leaders failed to raise enough votes from their allies to have the bill approved at the House level as Conservatives in the House GOP oppose the already-trimmed bill, from a staggering US$ 1.5 billion emergency budget.

Rather than seeing it scrapped, Republican leaders in the House have pulled the legislation for further tweaking until extended sessions on Friday obliging legislators to postpone the start of their summer vacations for the scheduled August recess.

In spite of Boehner's warning that there will not be enough votes to pass the bill, Republican leaders still wanted to try another adjustment on the bill during their August 1 session.

Though an extended session is due on Friday for both levels of the Congress, no vote has been scheduled-thus, no agreement on any legislation will be forwarded to the president's desk before legislators go on a five-week break.

In a report from the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, the Texas senator eyeing the White House was cited as the one "pulling the strings" posing a new challenge to newly appointed Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (California).

According to the report, Cruz worked up opposition for the emergency funding bill when he appeared at a tea party webinar and convened House conservatives privately on Wednesday evening.

Frustrated with Cruz's interference, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) had described his act as a sort of 'hijack' of the GOP. Some Democrats even joked about it by calling the senator as "Speaker Cruz."

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