U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is considering talks with President Joe Biden.
A bipartisan group of senators has not reached agreement on changes to US immigration policy that Republicans are demanding as a condition for approving Biden's $61 billion request for emergency aid to Ukraine.
This is reported by Bloomberg.
Leading Senate Democratic spokesman Chris Murphy said negotiations on a bipartisan compromise in the Senate are dragging on.
According to the publication, the negotiations are focused on more limited concessions than Republicans in the House of Representatives are seeking. Therefore, any agreement in the Senate may not pass in the House of Representatives.
US House Speaker Mike Johnson is considering negotiations with President Joe Biden, insisting that Biden pass a number of immigration changes, including new restrictions on the president's ability to cancel deportations of migrants and changes to asylum criteria.
White House Budget Director Shalanda Young was cool about the idea of direct negotiations with Johnson. She said the House Republican leader should be more involved in the Senate negotiations.
“We need to reach an agreement, not start new negotiations from scratch,” she said.
The White House and the US Congress are trying to reach an agreement that would provide military assistance to Ukraine while preventing illegal immigration across the US-Mexico border.
Recall that State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that the United States will not support military funding for Ukraine at the 2022-2023 level, because it seeks to help Ukraine build its own military-industrial base.
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