is that strategy vindicated by the outcome today? >> reporter: i think they played it smart. it is only way to do it. i am glad that johnson and biden were back channeling there but it would have been easy for the speaker to get a little greedy and put some of those things and the package that democrats would have projected and making sure the white house was in a good place. and providing, giving johnson the space you need. if joe biden was front and center, it would've been a lot harder. he has been watching the issue but this is clearly a decision by mike johnson to do what he thought was the right thing to do. a lot of republicans did not vote for best but this was atop a vote. i would be lying if i said i did not think the reluctance to give biden a win was on the mind of a lot of republicans who voted no. they handled it well. there is still a long way to go not just in getting the senate bill passed but putting these resources to work in a way that