senate the senate is expected to vote on tuesday afternoon, or at least begin voting that according to senate majority leader chuck schumer. >> and it is expected to pass once it does, it will go to the president for his signature and in a statement on saturday, the president saying that he urges the senate to do it quickly to send it to his desk, to sign it into law so that we can quickly send weapons and equipment to ukraine to meet their urgent battlefield needs. of course, the white house has been asking for this, these funds for months now, often framing this as in the interest of the united states as a national security priority. and over the last several months, making the point that these funds were urgent and necessary for ukraine especially in the last few weeks when we did see battlefield losses in ukraine, the white house was putting that squarely at the feet of republicans and congress saying that these funds needed to pass. we saw that happen yesterday in the white house applauding that effort, and i'm told by a white house official that on saturday