From New York Times, I'm Michael Balboro. This is the Daily.

For the past few weeks Democrats and Republicans were closing in on a game-changing

deal to secure the U.S. Mexico border, the kind of bipartisan compromise that's unheard of in contemporary

Washington.

Today, Corinne Demersia on why that deal is falling apart.

It's Thursday, February 1st.

So Karn, we're here to perform a kind of autopsy on a deal that might have been. To talk about a major bipartisan immigration agreement that took form over the past few weeks.

It was championed by President Biden, leaders from both parties in the Senate,

to understand exactly why in a divided dysfunctional Washington it ever seemed

like it had a chance to become law and why in the end it seems to have been

derailed so where does that story why in the end it seems to have been derailed.

So where does that story start?

So the genesis of all of this is really late last summer,

when it starts to look like military assistance for Ukraine, which the United States had been

funding and giving to this ally since early 2022 to help them fight off a Russian invasion,

is about to dry up. It had never been completely easy,

but it never been a really serious challenge

to get this sort of money through Congress

in various tranches in the past year and a half.

But all of a sudden, the right wing... in the past year and a half. Right.

But all of a sudden, the right wing of the Republican Party

starts to get really, really stubborn about saying,

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