.ON DECEMBER 6TH Republicans rejected President Joe Biden's ask for $106bn of funding, the majority of it to help arm Ukraine, on the basis that its arrangements to secure America's southern perimeter did certainly not go far sufficient. A team of legislators now seem near to striking a bipartisan offer on immigration rules, believed to include more durable policies as the rate of Republican support. But it looks probably to become defeated in your home of Agents. On January 14th Mike Johnson, your home sound speaker, said that meaningful boundary reform would certainly have to hang around up until a Republican politician was actually head of state. Yet on January 17th, after an appointment with Mr Biden, he prompted that he may be available to a concession after all. Is actually one likely?