Macklemore, Sydney Sweeney & Trumps 5K Promise

[upbeat music] Trump will pay people $5,000 if Republicans win the midterms, at least that's what he said, Sarah.

This was the craziest headline.

It was something to wake up to.

Okay, so for anyone who missed it, Trump has said, Trump last week said that he will give every American adult a $5,000 dividends check if Republicans hold onto control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections.

Okay, I have a billion thoughts on this-

Yes

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but can we backtrack for a second and just explain what the midterms are?

Absolutely.

Okay.

So yeah, you might be like, "What the fuck are the midterms? Why are they happening? When are they happening?" So the US midterms are basically the big elections that happen at the halfway point during the president's four-year term.

Yeah.

It's not the president, though, that's on the ballot, so Trump's not up for election.

It's all 435 House of Reps seats and around a third of the Senate seats that are up for election.

Yeah.

There's also a lot of, like, elections of state governors that are happening.

We're gonna put that to one side.

I just didn't want anyone to be confused if they, like, saw that headline as well.

Yeah.

Too much going on.

But the reason why this is such a point of focus is because currently Republicans hold the majority in both the House and the Senate.

So they have the ability to pass laws really easily because they control the presidency, the House, and the Senate, like, all three tiers of government.

So this election is a really big deal for the Republicans because if they lose Congress, they're gonna lose most of their ability to pass laws for the second half of their term, so they lose a lot of power.

But my other understanding with the midterms is, like, it's sort of this temperature check halfway through that if you're not happy with the current government, you know, if the country's not happy with the current government-

Mm-hmm