.ON DECEMBER 6TH Republicans denied Head of state Joe Biden's request for $106bn of financing, many of it to aid arm Ukraine, on the manner that its own regulations to safeguard United States's southerly perimeter performed certainly not progress enough. A group of statesmans currently seem close to striking a bipartisan deal on migration guidelines, believed to feature tougher policies as the price of Republican help. Yet it looks very likely to become defeated in our home of Agents. On January 14th Mike Johnson, our home sound speaker, mentioned that relevant boundary reform will need to hang around till a Republican politician was head of state. However on January 17th, after a meeting along with Mr Biden, he hinted that he might be ready for a compromise nevertheless. Is one likely?