President Joe Biden is expected to meet at the White House with congressional leaders on Wednesday to discuss his months-old request for roughly $106 billion to spend on a variety of national security issues that has failed to make headway on Capitol Hill.
The meeting will address Biden’s “top priority” supplemental funding request from October, which seeks more money for U.S. allies such as Ukraine and Israel as well as border security, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in a briefing on Tuesday.
Jean-Pierre also referenced bipartisan negotiations in the Senate where lawmakers are trying to hash out a deal tying border security reforms to Ukraine aid after Republicans blocked an effort to advance a national security package in December.
“While the president is having this really important meeting tomorrow, negotiations on a bipartisan agreement on…
