U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson took a strong stand on January 26 against a bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures with Ukraine aid, sending a letter to colleagues that aligns him with hard-line conservatives determined to sink the compromise on border and immigration policy. Johnson said the legislation would have been “dead on arrival in the House” if leaked reports about the legislation were true. While a core group of senators negotiating the deal haven't yet released the text of the bill, it has already come under fire from Republicans, including Donald Trump, the likely presidential nominee who eviscerated the deal this week as a political “gift” to Democrats.
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