US Senate reveals agreement on immigration and aid to Ukraine

The Senate of USA revealed this Sunday the text of an agreement between Democrats and Republicans that would unlock billions in new aid for Ukraine and Israel, while tightening the border lawsalthough its prospects of becoming law are uncertain.

The legislative package includes total funding of $118.3 billion, with $60 billion to help a Ukraine devastated by war – matching the White House’s request – and 14.1 billion to Israel, according to a summary published by the chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Patty Murray.

The agreement also includes US$ 20.2 billion para the security of American borders and a host of changes in migration policy agreed to by Democratic and Republican negotiators.

It is not clear that the project has the 60 supports necessary to pass the first procedural vote in the upper house, controlled by Democrats, which is expected for Wednesday at the latest.

Senators have been negotiating a deal to combat illegal migration for months, with Republicans insisting on beefing up border security in exchange for approving the president’s funding request. Joe Biden for kyiv.

The publication of the text received rapid support from the White House, which highlighted the decades-long search for a reform of the country’s “broken” immigration system.

“We have now reached agreement on a bipartisan national security pact that includes the toughest and fairest set of border reforms in decades. “I strongly support it,” he said. Biden it’s a statement.

He also urged Republicans – who control the House of Representatives and have been pressured by the candidate for Donald Trump White House to oppose the agreement – to support the bipartisan package.

“If you believe, like me, that we must secure the border now, doing nothing is not an option“, said.

The president of the House of RepresentativesMike Johnson, had previously declared that the package was “dead on arrival,” although he appeared to change tack when he told Fox Business on Friday that he is “not prejudging anything.”