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From the New York Times, I'm Michael Balborough.
This is the daily for the past few weeks, Democrats and Republicans were closing in on a game changing deal to secure the US Mexico border, the kind of bipartisan compromise thats unheard of in contemporary Washington today.
Car and immersion on why that deal is falling apart.
Its Thursday, February 1.
So Karn were here to perform a kind of autopsy on a deal that might have been to talk about a major bipartisan immigration agreement that took form over the past few weeks.
It was championed by President Biden, leaders from both parties in the Senate to understand exactly why in a divided, dysfunctional Washington, it ever seemed like it had a chance to become law, and why, in the end, it seems to have been derailed.
So where does that story start?
So the genesis of all of this is really late last summer when it starts to look like military assistance for Ukraine, which the United States had been funding and giving to this ally since early 2022 to help them fight off a russian invasion, is about to dry up.
It had never been completely easy, but had never been a really serious challenge to get this sort of money through Congress in various tranches in the past year and a half.
Right.
But all of a sudden, the right wing of the republican party starts to get really, really stubborn about saying, we're not gonna let you have this money unless you give us something that's important to us in terms of national security, and that is more border enforcement on the southern border with Mexico.
Hmm.
So Republicans in Congress say to the president, you want that funding to Ukraine to be consistent the way it has been, you're gonna have to give us greater security on the US Mexico border.
Exactly.