House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is sparring with the White House over what President Joe Biden can do to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
The back-and-forth centers on the extent of executive powers at Biden’s disposal after a surge in unlawful border crossings in December and as blue cities around the country get overwhelmed with migrants.
A bipartisan group of senators is working to hash out a deal coupling aid for U.S. allies, such as Ukraine and Israel, with border security reforms, but Johnson has already indicated it would be “dead on arrival” in the GOP-led House.
One purported tenet of the not-yet-released agreement, as reported by Fox News, would establish a threshold of a seven-day rolling average exceeding 5,000 encounters a day to trigger a Title 42-like authority to quickly remove migrants at the border.
