noting that we can quickly send weapons and equipment to ukraine to meet their urgent battlefield needs. all of that, once this process is complete, but there's no doubt, fred, that this was a win for the white house, which four months has been asking for these additional funds for ukraine, among other national security priorities, often framing this as the interests of the united states. so it's also not to cede any ground to russia and especially over the last few days, us us officials just kept and how important it was to get this across the finish line with warnings of ukraine possibly losing the war by the end of the year if they it get that aid. now, the president on saturday afternoon called speaker johnson and house minority leader jeffries separately to thank them for getting this past. of course. now it heads to the senate, but said security defense secretary austin also weighed in on this yesterday saying that the package would surge lifesaving think security assistance to ukraine, support israel, and increase the flow of