Republicans and Democrats will not negotiate a deal for Ukraine aid and stronger U.S. border policies before Christmas, with the discussions potentially running into January, according to Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.).
“We’re clearly not going to have text complete this week to be able to have a vote to be able to pull this stuff together. We’ll keep working until we get it done,” Mr. Lankford told reporters on Monday. “We’re all going to be back in January on this, but it’s going to take a while to be able to finish up all the text.” The senator is also not expecting the bipartisan group negotiating the deal to release even a framework of the agreement this week.
