the president, when you re working with the democratic congress, ultimately they got to a deal and this was steve manu chen s deal that he cut. it s easy to get to a top line deal if both sides are spending a lot. the real explainers are the deficit hawks. those that worry about the side of the debt and worry about detectives to gdp ratios and servicing that debt. but when you keep spending like this, you can see how the president got to yes with speaker pelosi because he gave in on 12 weeks paid maternity leave as well, and he gave and he gave in on some other issues. but he did get a lot of spending for a defense. 22 billion over last year, which was not a small year. i think the first defense budget that the president had was around 703 billion, and now we re at 738. so this is year on year they are spending a lot. president mentioned aircraft carriers, submarines, a whole host cruisers. a whole host of new weapons systems for the pentagon. and then there s that space