It's Wednesday, February 7, 2024.

I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian

worldview.

In Washington, D.C. and across the nation a good deal of the public conversation has to do with

what's been called a Senate border deal.

But it's a deal that might well not get through the

United States Senate much less get to the House of Representatives. The Speaker of the

House Mike Johnson has announced that the House is not open to this legislation

and behind it are some huge

worldview issues and some giant political developments. For one thing, the very way

this came together tells us something about at least the pressure on official Washington over the

loss of control of the border. So in the case of the Senate, the Senate majority

leader Chuck Schumer, actually a liberal Democrat from New York assigned a group of senators to come up with a plan

a bipartisan plan because there's no way absent some kind of a bipartisan plan for this

kind of legislation to get through the Senate, which has a 60 vote threshold in terms of the filibuster rule.

So you recognize that Senator James Langford, the Republican member of this particular group, and he's of course a Republican senator from Oklahoma,

and then the independent, and that Senator Kristen Cinema of Arizona and the Democrat Senator Chris Murphy of

Connecticut they had a major task and as you look at the legislation as

proposed this is something that would have been completely unexpected even just a year ago.

But Americans are becoming more and more aware of the fact that as a nation we have lost

control of the border with thousands of people coming across every day

and with over a million expected to come into the United States

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