Senate GOP split threatens bipartisan border deal as Trump looms large
Senate Republicans demanded that border security be added to a White House request for aid to Ukraine and Israel, but they are now balking at the details of a potential border deal.
by Lexie Schapitl
Jan 31, 2024
3 minutes
Senate Republicans demanded that President Biden's national security funding package for Ukraine be tied to policy changes to address the crisis at the southwest border. But now that negotiators say they are ready to release details of a bipartisan plan to reduce the surge of migrants at the border, Republican divisions could scuttle the plan.
Months of negotiations among Republicans, Democrats and Biden administration officials are now threatened by politics. Former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party's likely 2024 presidential nominee, has been
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