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Lexie Schapitl

Senate GOP split threatens bipartisan border deal as Trump looms large

Senate Republicans demanded that border security be added to negotiations on a national security package, but now splits within their party threaten the chances of a bipartisan border deal. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Senate Republicans demanded that President Biden's national security funding package for Ukraine be tied to policy changes to address the crisis at the southwest border. But now that negotiators say they are ready to release details of a bipartisan plan to reduce the surge of migrants at the border, Republican divisions could scuttle the plan.

Months of negotiations among Republicans, Democrats and Biden administration officials are now threatened by politics. Former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party's likely 2024 presidential nominee, has been publicly slamming the deal and urging lawmakers to oppose it.

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