2024-01-30 02:45:00
There are no finalized package agreements regarding tightening control over the southern American border and the resumption of assistance to Ukraine in the US Senate. This was reported to the Reuters news agency on Monday by a member of the press service of American Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, who is taking part in negotiations aimed at developing a deal on immigration and Ukraine.
The final details of the potential arrangement, which essentially affects both the legislative and executive branches of government in Washington, are still being discussed, the Murphy aide said.
“The deal has not yet been announced,” this senator’s spokesman said.
Meanwhile, according to Murphy’s version of events on Sunday on CNN, a bipartisan deal has already been worked out. According to him, the parties at that time were “finalizing work on the text.” However, there is still no complete clarity on exactly where this debate is in the Senate.
In turn, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Congress is a Republican Mike Johnson on Monday actually criticized the package agreements being discussed in the Senate with the participation of the White House, which are expected to lead to a significant reduction in the influx of illegal immigrants into the United States across the border with Mexico, but will not completely block it.
“Any powers to “close” the border [США с Мексикой], allowing at least one case of illegal crossing of it, is a deliberately unworkable option. And thousands [таких случаев] every day is outrageous. The number must be zero,” Johnson wrote in X.
He commented on the promises made by the US President Democrat over the past few days Joe Biden “close the border” with Mexico if package agreements are reached.
Analysts doubt that the use of such drastic measures by the current US President is likely. Biden, who is seeking re-election, whose popularity ratings leave much to be desired, closing the border would risk losing support from a significant part of the US Democratic Party electorate.
CNN characterizes the alleged changes in Biden’s position under pressure from Republicans as a “stunning political shift.” At a regular White House briefing on Monday, his press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked what the difference was between Biden and the previous Republican US president. Donald Trump, who was called, primarily among Democrats, a racist and xenophobe for his threats to close the border with Mexico. Jean-Pierre responded by saying that, according to the US administration, the “new law enforcement tools” for tightening border controls being discussed by the Senate “will be fair.”
“Yes, it will be tough, but it will be fair,” a Biden spokeswoman said.
The American government sent a request to Congress almost four months ago for additional budgetary appropriations in the 2024 fiscal year, which began on October 1 in the United States, primarily to assist Israel and Ukraine, as well as to counter China and Russia in the Asia-Pacific region. In total, the US executive branch of government led by Biden would like to receive regarding $106 billion for these purposes.
The further fate of the request and alternative bills remains unclear. Many Republicans in the House and Senate of Congress have spoken out in recent months once morest continuing to provide financial assistance to Kyiv. Speaker Johnson has consistently warned of his intention to link further assistance to Ukraine with tightening control over the US southern border. The Republican Minority Leader in the Senate spoke in a similar vein. Mitch McConnell. Debates between the ruling Democratic and opposition Republican parties in the United States on these issues continue.
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