--- title: Senate Releases Bipartisan Border and Ukraine Bill description: The compromise, supported by President Joe Biden, faces long odds in the House, where many Republicans follow Donald Trump in opposing the deal as not strong enough on immigration. canonical: https://time.com/6660505/senate-compromise-border-policies-ukraine-aid-house-gop/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-02-05T03:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:50:34.466Z article:section: Politics og:title: Senate Releases Bipartisan Border and Ukraine Bill og:description: The compromise, supported by President Joe Biden, faces long odds in the House, where many Republicans follow Donald Trump in opposing the deal as not strong enough on immigration. og:url: https://time.com/6660505/senate-compromise-border-policies-ukraine-aid-house-gop/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt715de3a1516e802e/698a4584db29873d01269e71/us-texas-border.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Texas Border og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Senate Releases Bipartisan Border and Ukraine Bill twitter:description: The compromise, supported by President Joe Biden, faces long odds in the House, where many Republicans follow Donald Trump in opposing the deal as not strong enough on immigration. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt715de3a1516e802e/698a4584db29873d01269e71/us-texas-border.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Senate Releases Bipartisan Border/Ukraine Bill but House GOP May Still Kill Compromise Deal > Sponsored content. 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Gilmer and Billy House / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Erik Wasson, Ellen M. Gilmer and Billy House / Bloomberg Contributor Feb 5, 2024 3:00 AM UTC  Texas National Guard watch migrants near the border in El Paso, Texas, May 10, 2023. Texas National Guard watch migrants near the border in El Paso, Texas, May 10, 2023. Andres Leighton—AP by [Erik Wasson, Ellen M. Gilmer and Billy House / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Erik Wasson, Ellen M. Gilmer and Billy House / Bloomberg Contributor Feb 5, 2024 3:00 AM UTC Senators released a bipartisan deal Sunday to impose new U.S. immigration restrictions and unlock billions of dollars in Ukraine aid, a crucial step even as the measure faces long odds in the House. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and his Republican counterpart Mitch McConnell both back the $118.3 billion compromise, with the Senate planning the first procedural vote on the measure on Wednesday. But GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump vehemently opposes it, as do many House conservatives. “Senators must shut out the noise from those who want this agreement to fail for their own political agendas,” Schumer said in a Sunday statement. The [deal](https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/emergency%5Fnational%5Fsecurity%5Fsupplemental%5Fbill%5Ftext.pdf), which includes $60 billion for Ukraine, was negotiated over several months by Democrat Chris Murphy, Republican James Lankford and Independent Kyrsten Sinema. It also includes $20 billion for the border, $6 billion more than the Biden administration requested. House Republicans could try to alter the deal more to their liking. Ukraine supporters like McConnell also could seek to attach aid to upcoming funding bills essential to keeping open the U.S. government, if a border policy stalemate ensues. **Read More:** [_History’s Case for American Military Aid for Ukraine_](https://time.com/6552302/fdr-american-aid-ukraine-history/) President Joe Biden said he “strongly” supports the compromise, adding it would give him new authorities to “shut down” the border to stem migration. He also said the deal would make the asylum process “fairer and more efficient” and expedite work permits for those who qualify. “If you believe, as I do, that we must secure the border now, doing nothing is not an option,” Biden said in a statement. [House Speaker Mike Johnson](https://time.com/6564951/mike-johnson-house-speaker-weak/) called the 370-page bill “dead on arrival” in the House. And Majority Leader Steve Scalise, the second-ranking Republican House leader, said in a social media posting that the legislation “will NOT receive a vote in the House.” Trump’s strongest allies swiftly dismissed the deal. House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik of New York declared it “an absolute non-starter” that would “incentivize thousands of illegals to pour in across our borders daily.” Under the proposal, the Department of Homeland Security would be able to turn away most asylum-seeking migrants at the border whenever encounters reach 4,000 daily for a week. At 5,000 daily average encounters in a week — or 8,500 on any single day — the administration would be required to turn away migrants. ### More From TIME The threshold levels are far below current migration flows. U.S. Customs and Border Protection recorded more than 302,000 total encounters along the U.S.-Mexico border in December alone. The bill would also make it harder to qualify for asylum in the U.S. by tightening the criteria for a successful application based on credible fear of persecution and would limit the release of migrants into the country, keeping more border-crossers in detention or on a fast track to deportation. **Read More:** [_All American Families Have Stories of Illegal Immigration_](https://time.com/6588992/american-families-illegal-immigration-essay/) Johnson and many other Republicans demand more restrictive U.S. immigration policies in exchange for approving the Ukraine aid. A Biden request for $14 billion to assist Israel in its war in Gaza also has been delayed by the struggle over immigration. The Senate compromise includes funding for Israel. Johnson plans a vote this week on a $17.6 billion Israel package without Ukraine aid attached, but ultra-conservatives already oppose that measure. Johnson, speaking earlier Sunday on _Meet the Press_ on NBC, reiterated concerns that the Senate compromise, which he hadn’t yet read, isn’t strong enough. The speaker is under pressure from ultraconservatives to accept only a House-passed wish list of immigration proposals, including completion of a border wall. Trump has urged Republicans hold out for a “perfect” deal, an aggressive stance aimed at scuttling the effort. That would make it easier for Republicans to keep pummeling Biden on an issue that resonates with voters. Six in 10 swing-state voters say Biden bears responsibility for a surge in migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll. The influx is straining the resources of Democratic strongholds like New York and Chicago. Representative Bob Good, chairman of the hardline House Freedom Caucus, made clear he won’t accept any border compromise that gives “political cover” to Biden. Record high border crossings have dogged Biden since he took office. There have been more than 6 million migrant encounters at the southwest border since fiscal 2021, though the authorities used a temporary pandemic-era legal power to expel migrants more than 2 million times. The House plans to vote this week to [impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas](https://time.com/6590641/alejandro-mayorkas-impeachment-house-gop/), setting up the first such action against a Cabinet member in nearly 150 years. Republicans accuse Mayorkas, the first immigrant and first Latino to lead the department, of failing to enforce U.S. immigration laws and breaching public trust. The administration’s willingness to bargain with the GOP on border and asylum restrictions has infuriated progressives and immigrants’ rights advocates who accuse the president of going back on his 2020 campaign promise to make the US immigration system more fair and humane. ## Transcript The court concludes that on the date of the application a dispute existed between the parties on the question whether the acts of genocide attributable to Ukraine had been committed in the region and on the lawfulness of the Russian federation's actions. Allegedly undertaken on the basis of such an accusation. Russian federation's first preliminary objection must therefore be rejected the armed conflict between the applicant in the respondent continues to this day the Judgment of the court regarding submission be will clarify the rights and obligations of the parties under the genocide convention in particular weather Ukraine active in accordance with its obligations under Article 1 of the convention. The court is mindful of its responsibilities in the maintenance of International Peace and security as well as in the peaceful settlement of disputes under the charter of the United Nations in the statute of the court is polish from the foregoing that submissions C&D in paragraph 178 of Ukraine's Memorial do not fall within the jurisdiction of the court and that the court may not deal with them on the merits. Well submission be in paragraph 178 of Ukraine's Memorial does fall within the jurisdiction of the court and they claim contained therein is admissible by 15 votes to 1. Finds that it has jurisdiction on the basis of article 9 of the convention on the prevention and Punishment of the crime of genocide to Entertain Entertain submission be in paragraph 175 the memorial of Ukraine in the international court of justice today's the court announced its decision that it has jurisdiction to proceed to the Married stage indicate Superman versus Russian Federation on the allegations of genocide. It is important that the court will decide on the issue that Ukraine is not responsible for some mythical genocide was the Russian Federation of falsely Elledge did Ukraine has committed has been committing since 2015 in dunbar's and that also it is important for us that the order on provision of the measures of 16th of March 2020 to remind in force as the case proceeds to Samara stage and So it's means that the obligation of the Russian Federation to immediately suspend all the military activities in the territory of Ukraine is there and it is a legal obligation which the Russian Federation last with steel. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6660505/senate-compromise-border-policies-ukraine-aid-house-gop/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6660505/senate-compromise-border-policies-ukraine-aid-house-gop/"},"headline":"Senate Releases Bipartisan Border/Ukraine Bill but House GOP May Still Kill Compromise Deal","datePublished":"2024-02-05T03:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:50:34.466Z","description":"The compromise, supported by President Joe Biden, faces long odds in the House, where many Republicans follow Donald Trump in opposing the deal as not strong enough on immigration.","url":"https://time.com/6660505/senate-compromise-border-policies-ukraine-aid-house-gop/","keywords":["Congress","wire","overnight","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt715de3a1516e802e/698a4584db29873d01269e71/us-texas-border.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Erik Wasson, Ellen M. 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