WaPo's Jacqueline Alemany: The Months Long Struggle To Get Ukraine Funding Coming To Fruition

MIKA BRZEZINSKI, MSNBC: Jackie, who are these Democrats and how might they save the day for the Speaker?

JACQUELINE ALEMANY, WASHINGTON POST CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS REPORTER: Yeah, Mika, this is the month's long culmination of a struggle bus to get this funding that is now at this point in time considered more critical than ever by growing cohorts of both parties to get through.

The question is whether or not Speaker Johnson is ultimately going to have the courage today to actually introduce the text of this four-part, $95 billion aid package, and whether or not Democrats are actually going to step up to the plate like they have increasingly been saying they're going to in order to help Mike Johnson get through and navigate these hard-line GOP conservatives who essentially want to blow everything up and take Mike Johnson's job away from him, forcing a new Speaker's fight for the second time in six months. But these Democrats are realists, essentially. People like you just showed, Jared Moskowitz, Josh Gottheimer, some of the more centrist, and even further than that, people who, at this point, people like Dan Goldman, people who just want to see their workplace function in a time when our foreign allies are desperately waiting on us and waiting for our support.

As Speaker johnson said yesterday, he considers himself a wartime Speaker at this point in time, and I think that's what's driving his desire to get this on the floor now, despite his personal opposition to funding Ukraine.