after months of delay and what appears to be a concerted effort by donald trump to work if not in russian president vladimir putin's interest, at least in parallel with them, it finally looks like the desperately needed aid package to ukraine will pass the house. this comes as the besieged countries pushed to the brink by the russian invasion. there are three big reasons this bill is set to come up for a vote. first, that there is an actual majority supporting in both chambers of congress aid to the ukraine. the second is that republican speaker mike johnson appears to have a sincere ideological belief that aid to ukraine is good. it should pass and he is willing to do things to make that happen. the third is that house democrats did something extraordinary late last night. as the democratic members of the very important and powerful house rules committee voted in tandem with republicans to move