The Biden administration on Tuesday indicated to congressional lawmakers that it would be willing to support a new border authority to expel migrants without asylum screenings, as well as a dramatic expansion of immigration detention and deportations, to convince Republicans to back aid to Ukraine, four people familiar with the matter told CBS News.

The White House informed Senate Democrats that it could back those sweeping and hardline immigration policy changes as part of the negotiations over President Biden’s emergency funding request, a roughly $100 billion package that includes military aid to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine, as well as money to bolster border enforcement and hire additional immigration officials.

[If true, this would be a massive win for Speaker Mike Johnson. Johnson had threatened to send the House home until after New Year if the border remained unaddressed, and it looks like that may have been enough for the White House to throw in the towel — that, and the fact that Democrats are also getting pretty unhappy about Biden’s border crisis. Stay tuned. — Ed]