By KYIV. Dec 14 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Republican senators say they are weighing U.S. President Joe Biden’s offer for changes to the United States border policy, raising prospects of agreeing on aid to Ukraine in the Senate, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
“Republicans met behind closed doors to evaluate the verbal offer, which emerged after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met with senators for nearly two hours Tuesday evening,” according to the statement.
The offer would give the president expanded authority to deport migrants once a certain number of undocumented migrants has crossed the border, Republican Senator Thom Tillis said. But hardline Republicans said the offer doesn’t go far enough, Bloomberg said.
“Now that the White house has gotten involved, the logjam has broken a little bit,” Ohio Republican JD Vance said after a briefing on the proposal. Still, he said, a final deal wouldn’t be ready “anytime soon.”
