.ON DECEMBER 6TH Republicans declined President Joe Biden's request for $106bn of funding, most of it to aid branch Ukraine, on the manner that its own provisions to secure The United States's southern border carried out certainly not progress sufficient. A team of legislators right now appear close to hitting a bipartisan deal on migration guidelines, thought to include harder policies as the cost of Republican assistance. But it appears very likely to be defeated in the House of Agents. On January 14th Mike Johnson, your home speaker, mentioned that meaningful boundary reform would must wait till a Republican politician was actually president. Yet on January 17th, after a conference along with Mr Biden, he suggested that he may be open up to a trade-off besides. Is one most likely?