总统乔·拜登周三，奥巴马将在白宫会见最高议员，讨论他的国家安全补充资金申请，其中包括对乌克兰和以色列的紧急援助。
1060亿美元的请求拜登在10月提出的在关于移民政策的激烈辩论中停滞不前，共和党人要求更严格的庇护和假释协议。
白宫新闻秘书卡琳·让·皮埃尔周二下午证实:“拜登总统将在白宫接待来自参议院和众议院的国会领导人以及主要委员会领导人和高级成员，讨论他的国家安全补充请求的至关重要性。”
消息人士告诉ABC新闻，众议院议长·迈克·约翰逊、参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默、众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯和参议院少数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔都收到了出席邀请。
2023年11月13日，美国华盛顿，美国总统乔·拜登在白宫椭圆形办公室举行会议。
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拜登的补充援助请求拨出140亿美元用于边境执法，包括增聘1000多名边境巡逻人员和庇护官员。它还包括12亿美元用于打击芬太尼的流动。
但是共和党人要求对美国移民政策进行更彻底的改革，指出移民的涌入在西南边境。
让-皮埃尔在周二的新闻发布会上对记者说，尽管双方无法达成协议，但他们认为正在进行的边界谈判“正朝着正确的方向前进”。
谈判已经进行了几个月，由一个两党参议员小组在整个假期期间进行，但迄今为止毫无结果。
众议院议长·约翰逊越来越坚持认为，众议院不应该接受参议院的工作，而应该继续坚持H.R. 2，这是一项众议院共和党支持的法案，其中充满了民主党控制的参议院不会支持的边境政策，白宫可能会否决。
“我们将继续呼吁国会采取行动，他们应该迅速采取行动，”让-皮埃尔说。“你知道，这是为了保护我们的边境。这关系到我们的国家安全，国会不采取行动的后果将是严重的。因此，总统将进行这次非常重要的谈话。”
这场争论导致对乌克兰抗击俄罗斯入侵者的援助持续推迟。自国会批准向这个东欧国家提供主要资金以来已经过去了一年多，美国政府表示，继续向乌克兰提供援助的资金很快就会耗尽。
乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基访问华盛顿他告诉立法者，他正在为“我们的自由和你们的自由”而战。
国会本周将通过一项短期拨款法案，旨在为议员们争取更多时间保持政府开放，避免政府关门。但议员们希望在3月前完成的短期拨款法案和长期拨款法案都不包括向乌克兰或以色列提供任何资金。
补充援助计划将包括给乌克兰的610亿美元和给以色列的143亿美元。
舒默和麦康奈尔周二在参议院发言时讨论了向乌克兰、以色列和台湾提供援助的必要性。
舒默表示:“这关系到我们国家的安全，包括乌克兰和以色列在内的我们海外朋友的安全，以及西方民主的未来。”。“我们不能让这些问题得不到解决。“
麦康奈尔称该一揽子计划是“我们扩大能力以应对我们面临的国家安全挑战的机会。”
Biden, 'Big 4' congressional leaders to meet on stalled aid for Ukraine, Israel
PresidentJoe Bidenwill host top lawmakers at the White House on Wednesday to discuss his national security supplemental funding request, which includes urgent aid for Ukraine and Israel.
The $106 billion requestmade by Biden in Octoberhas been stalled amid fierce debate on immigration policy, with Republicans demanding stricter protocols on asylum and parole.
“President Biden will host congressional leaders from the Senate and the House along with key committee leaders and ranking members at the White House to discuss the critical importance of his national security supplemental request," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed Tuesday afternoon.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell all received invitations to attend, sources told ABC News.
Biden's supplemental aid request sets aside $14 billion for border enforcement, including the hiring of more than a 1,000 additional border patrol agents and asylum officers. It also includes $1.2 billion to combat the flow of fentanyl.
But Republicans are demanding more sweeping changes to U.S. immigration policy, pointing to theinflux of migrantsat the southwest border.
Jean-Pierre, speaking to reporters during Tuesday's press briefing, said they believed ongoing border talks are "headed in the right direction" despite the inability for both sides to come to an agreement.
Negotiations have been going on for months, and were carried on throughout the holiday recess by a bipartisan group of senators, but so far to no avail.
House Speaker Johnson has grown more insistent that the House should not accept the Senate's work, and should instead continue to insist upon H.R. 2, a House-Republican backed bill filled with border policies the Democratic-controlled Senate wouldn't support and that the White House would likely veto.
"We're gonna continue to say Congress should act, they should act quickly," Jean-Pierre said. "You know, this is about securing our border. This is about our national security and the consequences of congressional inaction would be severe. So, the president is going to have this all-important conversation."
The debate has resulted in continued delay in aid to Ukraine in it war against Russian invaders. It's been over a year since Congress approved major funding for the Eastern European nation, and the administration has said it is quickly running out of funds to continue providing aid to Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyymade a visit to Washingtonin mid-December to push for the aid, telling lawmakers he was fighting “our freedom and yours."
Congress will spend this week working through a short-term funding bill aimed at buying lawmakers more time to keep the government open and avert a shutdown. But neither the short-term funding bill nor the longer-term appropriations bills lawmakers hope to complete by March are slated to include any funding for Ukraine or Israel.
The supplemental aid package would include $61 billion for Ukraine and $14.3 billion for Israel.
Schumer and McConnell, in remarks on the Senate floor on Tuesday, discussed the need to provide the aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
"At stake is the security of our country the security of our friends abroad including Ukraine and Israel and nothing less than the future of Western Democracy," Schumer said. "We cannot afford to let these issues go unaddressed."
McConnell called the package "our chance to expand our capacity to meet the national security challenges we face."
