President Biden accused “extreme Republicans” Wednesday of “playing chicken with our national security” by insisting on including more spending to secure America’s border with Mexico in a bill that would provide billions in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

“Extreme Republicans are playing chicken with our national security, holding Ukraine’s funding hostage to their extreme partisan border policies,” Biden said in midday remarks from the Roosevelt Room — in which he also acknowledged that US immigration policy was “broken.”

“I am willing to make significant compromises on the border,” he claimed. “We need to fix the broken border system. It is broken. And thus far, I’ve gotten no response.”

Senate Republicans have been negotiating for weeks with Democrats over the provisions in Biden’s $106 billion national security supplemental funding request — which the White House insists must be passed before Congress goes home for the holidays.

The White House Office of Management and Budget sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday warning that Ukraine military aid, most of which has gone to the US defense industrial base, will run out by year’s end.

Johnson responded Tuesday that Capitol Hill Republicans would not support additional aid without “transformative change” to America’s border policies

“For the better part of two years, the brave people of Ukraine have denied Russia a victory on the battlefield. They’ve defeated [Russian President] Vladimir Putin’s ambition to dominate Ukraine,” Biden said Wednesdays.

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“And the people of the United States can and should take pride — they should take pride that we’ve enabled Ukraine’s success thanks to the steady supply of weapons and ammunition we’ve provided them together with our partners and our allies.”

Biden went on to accuse Republicans of being “willing to give Putin the greatest gift he could hope for” in leveraging the joint national security package for changes in border policy, saying “Democrats have put forward a bipartisan compromise on the table” in the Senate by allowing for amendments to the supplemental request

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), who has led the Republican negotiators in the upper chamber, disagreed.

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“Obviously, the White House originated this. They started by saying ‘We’re going to do Ukraine, Israel, Indo-Pacific and border security at the same time,’” Lankford told The Post in an interview.

“We have just said, ‘Absolutely. And we are not going to just give you more money to process people faster into the country,’” he said. “We will allow additional dollars when we have a change in policy and a change in direction so that we’re actually controlling the border, not just managing releases.”

Lankford added reforms to asylum policy were particularly needed, with thousands rushing across the border every day to ask for humanitarian parole before being released into the country.

“We’re pushing and saying, ‘If it’s not more obvious now that we’ve had 2.5 million people that have crossed the border illegally in the last year, and we’re now up to 10,000 people a day that are crossing the border — if it’s not obvious now this is a need, when would it be obvious?’” he questioned.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre echoed Biden’s sentiment later Wednesday, saying Republicans were “playing chicken” with their “extreme demands.”

Biden said he had “asked for billions of dollars for more border agents, more immigration judges, more asylum officers,” but mentioned nothing about policy changes during his address.

“Republicans have to decide if they want a political issue or if they want a solution at the border. Do they really want a solution?” he asked. “We need a real solution.”