Southwest Florida resident and former house speaker John Boehner reacted to the $1.3 trillion spending bill signed by President Donald Trump on Friday.
"We've got a lot of people who want various parts of the immigration issue resolved," said John Boehner.
A lot of controversy surrounds the 2,200-page budget.
Even the president threatened to veto it because he didn't get more money for his wall.
Others are angry that it does nothing to help children brought here by their undocumented parents.
Lawmakers call the bill give and take.
"There's a lot of things I'm unhappy about in the spending bill," Trump said.
Namely, not enough money to build the promised wall along the Mexican border now funded by taxpayers, even though the president campaigned on the promise Mexico would pay for it.
"Twenty-five billion in border-wall spending is just a ridiculous number for a three-year extension of DACA that doesn't have a pathway to citizenship or legal permanent residency," said Immigration Attorney Indera DeMine.
The president tweeted an 11th-hour threat to veto the 2,200-page spending bill, pointing out it doesn't deal with DACA recipients.
"Well I'm happy to be retired," said Boehner as he laughed about it.
Boehner retired in 2015 when immigration was highly debated.
"DACA in of itself has broad support in the House and Senate to deal with it, but the president wants broader security, and other members want other changes," Boehner said.
Congressman Francis Rooney pointed fingers across the aisle for no deal on DACA.
"I don't think the Democrats wanted an agreement. We had a deal. It was all set to go and low and behold it went away," said Rooney.
Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, who was with Rooney on Friday, predicted a deal on DACA could still be reached.
"If you do DACA alone without some of the other things you'll never get to the broader issue of resolving the immigration problem," Simpson said.
The president said he had no choice to sign the bill because of increased military spending.
He called on lawmakers to give him line-item veto power, which would have allowed him to take out the things he didn't like.