Far-right House speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) has declared that if a bipartisan deal in the U.S. Senate tying enhanced security at the U.S./Mexico border to military aid to Ukraine goes to the U.S. House of Representatives for consideration, it will be “dead on arrival.” But the deal, much to the frustration of centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Arizona), hasn’t gotten that far — and has collapsed in the U.S. Senate. Another centrist senator who is quite frustrated by the bill’s fate is West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin. During a Wednesday, February 7 appearance on CNN, Manchin described it…
