.ON DECEMBER 6TH Republicans turned down President Joe Biden's ask for $106bn of funding, the majority of it to aid arm Ukraine, on the manner that its own regulations to get United States's southerly perimeter carried out not progress good enough. A group of senators right now appear close to blowing a bipartisan package on migration guidelines, thought to feature tougher plans as the rate of Republican assistance. Yet it looks very likely to become defeated in our home of Agents. On January 14th Mike Johnson, your house speaker, said that relevant perimeter reform would need to wait up until a Republican politician was head of state. However on January 17th, after a conference with Mr Biden, he suggested that he may be open to a trade-off nevertheless. Is one very likely?