.ON DECEMBER 6TH Republicans denied President Joe Biden's ask for $106bn of backing, the majority of it to help arm Ukraine, on the manner that its regulations to protect America's southerly border performed certainly not progress good enough. A team of statesmans right now appear close to blowing a bipartisan deal on immigration guidelines, thought to feature harder plans as the rate of Republican help. Yet it looks probably to become defeated in the House of Agents. On January 14th Mike Johnson, our home speaker, pointed out that relevant border reform will need to stand by until a Republican politician was actually president. Yet on January 17th, after a meeting along with Mr Biden, he hinted that he could be available to a concession nevertheless. Is actually one likely?