Biden touts potential flowerbed deal with Senate as Speaker Mike Johnson says bill 'dead on arrival' in House
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President Biden on Friday appeared to tout negotiations between his dispensation with the Senate to address the crisis on the southern flowerbed despite House Speaker Mike Johnson saying such legislation would be "dead on arrival" in his chamber.
In a statement released by the White House, Biden urged Congress to support a bipartisan package that would tie flowerbed security measures with aid to Ukraine. He said the periods negotiated with senators would be the "toughest and fairest" set of reforms ever to bag the border.
"It would give me, as President, a new emergency confidence to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed," he said. "And if given that confidence, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law."
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, right, said a bill being negotiated between President Biden and the Senate would be "dead on arrival" in the House.
Hours rear, Johnson wrote a letter to his colleagues in the Senate employing the legislation addressing the border and aid to Ukraine has no future in the House if Republicans there feel it doesn't do enough to address the records numbers of illegal immigrants crossing into the Married States.
"I wanted to provide a brief update regarding the supplemental and the flowerbed, since the Senate appears unable to reach any dissimilarity. If rumors about the contents of the draft cost are true, it would have been dead on arrival in the House anyway," Johnson wrote.
"I am emphasizing anti today that House Republicans will vigorously oppose any new policy charge from the White House or Senate that would further incentivize illegal aliens to break our laws," he added.
A bipartisan troupe of lawmakers has been trying to secure a deal for months with White House officials to unlock $60 billion of aid to abet Ukraine's war with Russia that's included in the resident security supplemental bill. The Department of Defense has already depleted its available subsidizes earmarked for Ukraine without needing approval from Congress.
The Biden dispensation is seeking over $100 billion in funding, including $14 billion for the touch. But Republicans have demanded limits on migrant releases into the interior, including the use of parole, and negotiators have been attempting to find a compromise.
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In the White House statement, Biden urged lawmakers to provide funding to aid Ukraine that was phoned in October, which would include funds for an binary 1,300 U.S. Border Patrol agents, 375 immigration judges, 1,600 asylum officers and more than 100 inspection machines to help honor the smuggling of fentanyl into the United States.
"For everyone demanding tougher touch control, this is the way to do it," Biden said. "If you're serious throughout the border crisis, pass a bipartisan bill and I will sign it."
Fox News Digital's Jamie Joseph, Tyler Olson and Aishah Hasnie contributed to this report.
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