Senate negotiators can agree to a deal on Ukraine funding and border security, although "many on the hard right" are "taking cues from Donald Trump" and trying to derail it in order to prevent President Joe Biden from achieving a legislative victory, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday, The Hill reported.
Schumer said negotiators are "close to reaching a bipartisan agreement," but that they are "not there yet." He criticized allies of Trump for attempting to prevent the deal.
"There are many on the hard right who are trying desperately to kill these negotiations before they are even finished," Schumer said on the Senate floor. "Many of them are motivated by naked partisanship, others are taking cues from Donald Trump."
The former president last week urged Republicans to oppose any compromise that fell short of "everything" needed to curtail illegal immigration, according to The Hill.
Schumer said he is staying in "close touch" with Senate negotiators, senior White House officials and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
McConnell is urging colleagues to back the border security agreement that will be attached to more than $60 billion in funding to help Ukraine fight its war against Russia.
Negotiators are sharing parts of the agreement with the Senate Appropriations Committee, which is making it part of the legislative text of the emergency foreign aid spending bill.
Republicans familiar with the talks say a major sticking point is that the two sides have not yet completely worked out an agreement on how to lower the number of migrants who are being paroled into the U.S. after being encountered at the border.
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