.ON DECEMBER 6TH Republicans declined Head of state Joe Biden's request for $106bn of financing, most of it to assist arm Ukraine, on the basis that its own arrangements to secure United States's southern boundary did certainly not go far enough. A group of politicians currently appear near to striking a bipartisan package on immigration rules, believed to feature more durable plans as the cost of Republican support. Yet it looks likely to be defeated in your house of Agents. On January 14th Mike Johnson, your home sound speaker, said that purposeful perimeter reform would certainly have to stand by till a Republican was actually head of state. Yet on January 17th, after a conference with Mr Biden, he suggested that he might be open to a concession nevertheless. Is one likely?