A deal being negotiated in the Senate that would pair border and immigration restrictions with aid for Ukraine could be “dead on arrival” in the House, Speaker Mike Johnson said in a letter to House Republicans on Friday.

Later Friday, President Joe Biden said in a statement that it's "long past time to fix" the country's "broken" border, and urged that if lawmakers are "serious about the border crisis," they must send a bipartisan bill to his desk.

"For too long, we all know the border’s been broken," the president said. "It’s long past time to fix it. That’s why two months ago, I instructed my team to begin negotiations with a bipartisan group of Senators to seriously, and finally, address the border crisis. For weeks now that’s what they’ve done. Working around the clock, through the holidays, and over weekends."

Biden sought to clarify what the bill contains, saying that "what’s been negotiated would – if passed into law – be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country."

"It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed," he said, pledging that "if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law."

He also implored lawmakers to "finally provide the funding I requested in October to secure the border" in his $100+ billion request, which also includes aid to Israel, Ukraine and Indo-Pacific allies, including Taiwan, to counter China's influence in the region.

"This includes an additional 1,300 border patrol agents, 375 immigration judges, 1,600 asylum officers, and over 100 cutting-edge inspection machines to help detect and stop fentanyl at our southwest border," the president said. 

"Securing the border through these negotiations is a win for America. For everyone who is demanding tougher border control, this is the way to do it," Biden said, challenging: "If you’re serious about the border crisis, pass a bipartisan bill and I will sign it."

A small bipartisan group of senators and White House officials have been hashing out a deal on the border as well as foreign aid for Ukraine and Israel and other national security initaitives. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., the head GOP negotiator, said Thursday the group is still working on the package.

In his letter, Johnson, R-La., wrote the “Senate appears unable to reach any agreement. If rumors about the contents of the draft proposal are true, it would have been dead on arrival in the House anyway.”

It’s not clear what Johnson thinks might be in the possible deal. 

House Republicans have insisted a border deal include provisions listed in an immigration bill the chamber passed in May along party lines that would revive a number of Trump-era policies, including the “Remain in Mexico” program, border-wall construction and asylum restrictions. 

Johnson wrote that the bill “contains the core legislative reforms that are necessary to actually compel the Biden Administration to resolve the border catastrophe.”

“Since the day I became Speaker, I have assured our Senate colleagues the House would not accept any counterproposal if it would not actually solve the problems that have been created by the administration’s subversive policies,” the speaker wrote.

Johnson also repeated his demand that President Biden sign executive actions to improve border conditions to prove to House Republicans that he is negotiating in good faith and will enforce new border and migration laws passed by Congress.

The speaker also said in his letter earlier Friday that the House Homeland Security Committee will move forward with articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, adding that a floor vote is expected soon after.

Johnson charged that Biden and Mayorkas “have willfully ignored and actively undermined our nation’s immigration laws.”

The Homeland Security Committee has held two impeachment hearings against Mayorkas. The first featured testimony from Republican state attorneys generals who blamed Mayorkas’ policies for problems in their states related to migrants. The second included people whose family members died from fentanyl overdoses or violent crime. 

Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., accused Mayorkas of “stonewalling” the panel. The Department of Homeland Security said the secretary was unavailable to testify on the day of the committee’s last hearing but is willing to appear on other dates.

House Republicans argue Mayorkas committed impeachable offenses by ignoring laws related to paroling and detaining migrants and the construction of the border wall, among others.

Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee, however, have accused GOP lawmakers of seeking to oust Mayorkas over policy differences. The top Democrat on the panel, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, sent a letter to Tennessee Rep. Mark Green, the panel's chairman, decrying it as a "sham."

"This unserious impeachment is a testament to partisan politics over rules and reason," Thompson wrote in the letter obtained by POLITICO, adding: "Given the grave importance of impeachment — which you once described as ‘probably the most extreme remedy that our constitution affords for taking someone out of office’ — this Committee should do better. At the very least, it should follow the rules and practices established over more than two centuries of congressional history."

The Department of Homeland Security has called Republicans’ allegations against Mayorkas “baseless and pointless.”

The Constitution gives Congress the authority to impeach federal “civil officers” for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. 

A majority vote in the House is needed to impeach Mayorkas. Two-thirds of the Democratic-led Senate would need to convict him in order to remove him from office.

The only Cabinet official ever to be impeached was Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876 over corruption allegations. The Senate acquitted him.