.ON DECEMBER 6TH Republicans denied Head of state Joe Biden's ask for $106bn of financing, most of it to help branch Ukraine, on the manner that its arrangements to safeguard America's southerly perimeter did certainly not progress good enough. A group of legislators currently appear close to attacking a bipartisan deal on migration policies, thought to include harder plans as the cost of Republican support. But it looks probably to be defeated in our home of Representatives. On January 14th Mike Johnson, our home speaker, mentioned that meaningful perimeter reform will must hang around till a Republican was president. However on January 17th, after a meeting with Mr Biden, he prompted that he may be open to a compromise after all. Is one likely?