Biden insists he’s open to compromise on border policy to secure Ukraine aid

BIDEN: ‘I’M WILLING TO DO SIGNIFICANTLY MORE’: With Republicans in Congress blocking military assistance to Ukraine amid a bitter partisan divide over securing the southwestern border, President Joe Biden insists he’s ready to deal.

In remarks before every Republican in the Senate voted to defeat a procedural vote on his $110 billion emergency supplemental appropriations request, Biden argued that without the $61 billion earmarked for Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin will be handed a victory he can’t achieve on the battlefield.

“We can’t let Putin win,” Biden said. “Any disruption in our ability to supply Ukraine clearly strengthens Putin’s position. We’ve run out of money to be able to do that.”

“Extreme Republicans are playing chicken with our national security, holding Ukraine’s funding hostage to their extreme partisan border policies,” Biden said while insisting he’s ready to negotiate. “I support real solutions at the border … and I’m willing to do significantly more. I’m willing to change policy as well.”