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Poland’s defense minister says the Pentagon has signed off on a permanent US military base in the country, calling it a “greenlit,” and President Trump is set to make the final call in early December.

Getting into it: Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said that when he asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about the base during talks at the Pentagon on Tuesday, Hegseth told him “everything is going in a good direction.” He added, “This means that the permanent presence of US troops in Poland has been greenlit by the Pentagon. The final decision will be made by the White House. This will happen at the beginning of December.”

The Pentagon’s readout of the meeting left the base out entirely and focused on a deal for the two countries’ defense industries to work more closely together. About 10,000 US troops are currently in Poland, mostly on rotation, and Warsaw wants roughly 5,000 to be permanently stationed there. Poland has offered to pay about $4 billion to build the base, which would need housing, schools and other facilities for around 25,000 people and would likely take years to finish.

Pentagon officials have scouted possible locations in four western Polish cities: Bydgoszcz, Poznań, Szczecin and Wrocław. Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Karol Nawrocki, a Trump ally who’s on board with calling it “Fort Trump,” are bitter rivals who don’t agree on much, but they both back the base. Separately, Kosiniak-Kamysz said the Pentagon gave a “positive recommendation” on Poland’s request to buy Tomahawk cruise missiles, though Congress would have the final say.

All of this is happening as the Pentagon reviews its roughly 80,000-troop presence in Europe, with a decision due in December, and NATO allies worry Trump could pull more forces off the continent. Earlier this year, the Pentagon said it was pulling 5,000 troops out of Germany, and it scrapped a rotation of more than 4,000 troops that was headed to Poland. Trump then turned around and ordered 5,000 more troops to Poland, but the Pentagon still hasn’t said how that will happen.

The push also comes after Poland was picked last month to host Europe’s first repair and service hub for Patriot interceptor missiles, as the country, which borders Ukraine and Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave, pushes to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank.