.ON DECEMBER 6TH Republicans denied President Joe Biden's ask for $106bn of financing, many of it to aid branch Ukraine, on the basis that its regulations to secure The United States's southern border performed not go far enough. A team of legislators currently appear near to hitting a bipartisan deal on immigration policies, believed to consist of harder plans as the price of Republican help. Yet it looks likely to become finished off in your home of Reps. On January 14th Mike Johnson, your house speaker, claimed that meaningful perimeter reform would certainly must wait until a Republican politician was president. Yet on January 17th, after a conference along with Mr Biden, he prompted that he may be ready for a compromise besides. Is one very likely?