Trump, the Midterm Fight and China

So right now, the Senate has been finishing their final week of session before they break for the campaign cycle.

Ashley, are they going to actually get anything done or are they going to sit around, do nothing and then go try to tell people that they should keep their jobs?

So here's what I think.

There was a big NRSC and DSCC fundraising meetings.

The senatorial

committees for the Republicans and Democrats.

For the

Republicans and Democrats.

And I think the Republicans were realizing pressure from their members that they needed to stay in this week because they couldn't leave on the college football bill that they're passing.

And by the way, that bill is supposed to pass

by over 70.

Yeah.

And so they weren't they weren't able to leave on Monday because of that.

And then there's a lot of pressure on doing affordability.

So the rate payer protection plan, there's still some questions about if that's just Republicans putting that on that vote on the record.

The Democrats are saying right now the bill doesn't go far enough.

But does it let especially Senator Husted, who's really up against Ohio? in Ohio with the data center because he was such an advocate for data centers coming to Ohio.

Does it give them something to go back and campaign on? There's also potential today or tomorrow, Wednesday or Thursday, if they stay until Thursday, it will depend on a few things.

The other one being the stock buyback.

I'm not sure if that resonates as much for a campaign issue as much as the ratepayer protection.

So we'll see.

They will either leave today or tomorrow, but then they are gone.

But I think it was smart for Republicans at least to just stick around and try to pass something or at least have some messaging bills.