2024-01-27 03:30:15
The tone suddenly rose on Friday between Joe Biden and the Republicans over the difficult discussions in Congress on Ukraine and immigration policy, a sign among others of the intensification of the electoral campaign.
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Under pressure from the right, these two subjects are now negotiated together, which endangers deliveries of crucial weapons and equipment for the Ukrainian army.
In the evening, the Democratic president called on conservative parliamentarians not to block a project on immigration already partly negotiated, assuring that if it were adopted, it would be “the most severe and the most severe set of reforms fairer than we have ever had in our country to secure the border.
“He would give me, as president, new emergency authority to close the border when it is overwhelmed,” Joe Biden said in a statement, even assuring that he “would use this power on the same day of entry into force of the law.
“If you are serious about the crisis at the border, pass a bipartisan bill and I will sign it,” added the 81-year-old Democrat, who knows he is politically vulnerable on the subject, and who thus hopes to put the right in trouble.
“Stillborn”
Joe Biden’s statement is a response to the Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson.
The latter warned on Friday that as it stands, any vote on new funding for aid to Ukraine as well as for strengthening the border with Mexico, where a record number of migrants arrive, was “dead- born”.
This comment comes at a time when, according to American media, former president and White House candidate Donald Trump is putting pressure on Republican elected officials to block the budget requests of his rival, Democratic President Joe Biden.
“If the rumors about the content of the bill (currently being debated in the Senate, the other chamber of Congress, editor’s note) are true, it would be stillborn before even arriving before the House of Representatives,” assured Mike Johnson in a letter to American congressmen.
This letter is another negative signal on the outcome of the already very complicated negotiations in the American Congress, which is made up of the Senate, currently with a Democratic majority, and the House, dominated by the Republicans.
The American president is calling for a vote on a budget increase of some $100 billion to meet pressing needs, first and foremost aid to Ukraine, of which the United States is the leading supplier of military equipment, and aid to Israel.
Texas
But the parliamentary discussion is now complicated by the acceleration of the campaign before the presidential election in November, which has every chance of pitting Joe Biden and Donald Trump once again.
The former Republican president made immigration one of his major areas of attack.
While a compromise in the Senate seemed possible, this prospect suddenly receded this week, and the American press sees it as the work of the 77-year-old tycoon, the big favorite in the Republican primary and who retains a strong hold on the party. .
Furthermore, tension does not subside between the federal government and the Republican governor of Texas, who installed barbed wire on the border with Mexico, thus defying Washington’s authority in matters of border policing.
He received the strong support of Donald Trump and many other leaders of the Republican Party.
The last delivery of American military aid to Ukraine was announced on December 27, and the White House has said repeatedly that without a budget extension, there would be no others.
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