BORDER BILL DOA: Speaker Mike Johnson Warns Senate Border Bill Will Be Shot Down

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson told House GOP conference members this week that a rumored bipartisan Senate deal involving Ukrainian aid and southern border policy would be dead on arrival in the lower chamber.

The compromise would have given aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, and also addressed the migrant crisis at the southern border.

According to NEWSMAX, Johnson sent a letter to House colleagues on Friday to offer an update “regarding the supplemental and the border, since the Senate appears unable to reach any agreement.”

“If rumors about the contents of the draft proposal are true, it would have been dead on arrival in the House anyway,” Johnson wrote in his letter, Politico reported.

“I am emphasizing again today that House Republicans will vigorously oppose any new policy proposal from the White House or Senate that would further incentivize illegal aliens to break our laws,” Johnson wrote, Politico reported.

From NEWSMAX:

CNN reported Thursday that an aide to House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told a group of Senate Republican chiefs of staff that a bipartisan deal pairing border enforcement measures and Ukraine has zero chance of passing the lower chamber if the bill includes certain specific measures, such as work permits for asylum-seeking migrants and enhanced expulsion authority that would only kick in after migrant border crossings exceed 5,000 people a day as a point of contention.

President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, R-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have worked for months to broker a deal to approve wartime aid for Ukraine.

More over at NEWSMAX:

MORE: Senate negotiators have been working for weeks to nail down a compromise that would give aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, and also address the migrant crisis at the southern border. https://t.co/lz1oFFpHcF

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