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White House invites congressional leaders to meet with Biden over border bill talks

Congressional leaders have been invited to the White House on Wednesday to meet with President Joe Biden about the future of a supplemental spending bill, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced Tuesday.

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CNN — Congressional leaders have been invited to the White House on Wednesday to meet with President Joe Biden about the future of a supplemental spending bill, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced Tuesday.

The bill being negotiated is aimed at sending aid to Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan and the US southern border with Mexico, but efforts to include changes to border and immigration policy in particular have stalled progress for months.

Biden will welcome leaders from the House and Senate, as well as “key committee leaders and ranking members” to the White House “to discuss the critical importance of his national security supplemental request,” Jean-Pierre said.

Raj Shah, a spokesman for House Speaker Mike Johnson, confirmed the meeting on X, writing, “Speaker Johnson alongside other congressional leaders will be meeting with President Biden tomorrow at the White House.”

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