One thing you can never trust on Capitol Hill is a promised deadline. The Senate has been working on border security provisions to combine with supplemental aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The House-passed Secure the Border Act (H.R. 2) should have given Senators an excellent place to start negotiations. However, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)’s lead negotiator, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), may have negotiated away too much to the Democrats already.