.ON DECEMBER 6TH Republicans denied President Joe Biden's ask for $106bn of funding, a lot of it to assist arm Ukraine, on the basis that its own stipulations to protect The United States's southerly boundary did not progress enough. A team of politicians currently seem to be near to attacking a bipartisan bargain on immigration rules, believed to include harder policies as the rate of Republican support. But it looks most likely to become defeated in the House of Agents. On January 14th Mike Johnson, our home audio speaker, pointed out that relevant perimeter reform would have to stand by till a Republican politician was president. However on January 17th, after a conference along with Mr Biden, he suggested that he could be available to a compromise besides. Is one very likely?