G.O.P. Backlash To Border Deal Reflects Vanishing Ground For A Compromise

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G.O.P.

Backlash to Border Deal


Reflects Vanishing Ground for a
Compromise
Republicans demanded a border crackdown but have rejected a bipartisan plan to
impose one, underscoring the intractable politics of the issue in an election year.

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Senator James Lankford, the lead Republican negotiator on the border deal, said that
members of his party who complained that they needed more time to read through
the bill were rushing to denounce it on social media.Credit...Kent Nishimura for The
New York Times
By Annie Karni

Reporting from the Capitol

Feb. 5, 2024

Republicans in Congress who have spent months demanding that any aid to Ukraine
be paired with a crackdown against migration into the United States got what they
asked for when a bipartisan group of senators released a $118.3 billion agreement
that would provide both.

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