.ON DECEMBER 6TH Republicans denied President Joe Biden's ask for $106bn of funding, many of it to assist arm Ukraine, on the basis that its own provisions to protect United States's southerly border carried out certainly not go far good enough. A group of politicians currently seem to be close to hitting a bipartisan deal on immigration regulations, believed to consist of harder policies as the cost of Republican support. But it appears probably to become defeated in your house of Representatives. On January 14th Mike Johnson, your home sound speaker, pointed out that purposeful perimeter reform will have to wait until a Republican politician was actually president. Yet on January 17th, after a conference with Mr Biden, he suggested that he could be ready for a trade-off besides. Is one most likely?