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Top House and Senate Republicans on Monday savaged a $118.3 billion bipartisan compromise bill to crack down on unlawful migration across the U.S. border with Mexico and speed critical security aid to Ukraine, threatening to kill the deals chances of clearing a deeply divided Congress.

Senate Republicans and Democrats released the agreement on Sunday after more than three months of near-daily talks, cementing an improbable breakthrough on a policy matter that has bedeviled presidents of both parties and defied decades of efforts at compromise on Capitol Hill. But the swift backlash from Republicans who denounced the immigration restrictions as too weak suggested that it had little path to enactment.

Any consideration of this Senate bill in its current form is a waste of time, Speaker Mike Johnson said in a joint statement with Republican leaders on Monday. It is dead on arrival in the House. We encourage the U.S. Senate to reject it.

Several Senate Republicans also quickly condemned the measure, raising questions about whether it could even advance in that chamber, where members of both parties have clamored for a compromise.

I cant support a bill that doesnt secure the border, provides taxpayer-funded lawyers to illegal immigrants and gives billions to radical open borders groups, Senator Steve Daines, Republican of Montana and the chairman of the partys campaign committee, wrote in a social media post. Im a no.

The mounting Republican opposition was a grim sign ahead for an initial test vote on Wednesday in the Senate, where the measure would need bipartisan support including a minimum of 10 G.O.P. votes to move forward.

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