.ON DECEMBER 6TH Republicans rejected President Joe Biden's request for $106bn of financing, a lot of it to help arm Ukraine, on the basis that its stipulations to safeguard America's southern boundary performed not progress sufficient. A team of statesmans now seem close to hitting a bipartisan deal on immigration policies, thought to feature tougher policies as the rate of Republican support. But it appears probably to be defeated in your house of Agents. On January 14th Mike Johnson, your home speaker, pointed out that purposeful boundary reform would must hang around till a Republican politician was president. Yet on January 17th, after an appointment along with Mr Biden, he prompted that he may be available to a trade-off after all. Is one probably?