President Biden and the US Senate Democrats and Republicans want to resume sending money to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan…..
Some…
Not All Republicans want to seal the US Southern Border and go after undoucument’s In America like back in the old days….
Doing BOTH IS gonna be tough….
As Biden urges lawmakers to back another $60 billion for Ukraine, he faces fresh questions from Republicans over the management of billions of U.S. funds already spent, the contributions of other allies to the effort, and the Ukrainians’ plan for achieving victory after an underwhelming military counteroffensive. Republicans have said for months that Ukraine will not receive additional funds until the crisis at the U.S. southern border is addressed with new limits on migration.
“I told the president what I have been saying for many months, and that is that we must have change at the border — substantive policy change,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters after the meeting.
Biden has said he is prepared to make concessions on border issues, but the negotiations have stretched on for weeks without resolution of key sticking points. While the White House has suggested it is willing to accept some restrictions on the use of asylum, for example, the talks have hit a snag over Republicans’ insistence that Biden accept new limits on his power to allow migrants into the country using an authority known as parole.
Biden sought to make his case directly to the key lawmakers during Wednesday’s meeting, which featured the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate, as well as the chairs and ranking members of the Appropriations, Armed Services, Foreign Relations and Intelligence committees. It gave Biden an opportunity to underline his message amid a feeling on both sides that, with the election approaching and Ukraine running out of funds, time for a deal was growing short….
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Donald Trump told Fox News that he opposes the Senate immigration deal and wants Speaker Mike Johnson to oppose it too.
He said he doesn’t think it’s needed to secure the border….
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Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday dug in against President Biden’s efforts to revive stalled legislation to send aid to Ukraine, saying the Republican-led House would not entertain it unless Democrats agreed to a far more severe crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border than they have been willing to consider.
Mr. Johnson’s latest ultimatum cast further doubt on the prospects of Congress’s approving Mr. Biden’s request for tens of billions of dollars in emergency security assistance to help Ukraine fight off Russia.
Republicans have insisted that such a package be paired with measures to clamp down on migration at the southwestern border, and a bipartisan group of senators has made considerable progress on striking a compromise to do so. But the plan has no path to enactment if the House, where a sizable far-right contingent is pressing for even tougher immigration policies, refuses to accept it.
“I told the president what I had been saying for many months, and that is that we must have change at the border, substantive policy change,” Mr. Johnson told reporters after emerging from a meeting with Mr. Biden and other congressional leaders at the White House, adding: “We must insist — must insist — that the border be the top priority.”…