Joe Mathieu

Mr. Chairman, you don't sound that worried about this being systemic.

Always fascinating to look under the hood with Gary Gensler, former chair of the SEC, professor of the practice MIT Sloan School of Management.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the time.

You certainly ask interesting questions.

News.

To expand the conversation, we're joined now by Congressman Jason Smith.

He's a Republican representing Missouri's 8th Congressional District and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Congressman, thanks so much for joining and it's good to see you.

I want to ask about these recent comments from Senate Majority Leader John Thune who says it might be time to start thinking about having the House come back into session because this stopgap bill that they are voting on would only fund the government until November 21st.

Is a November 21st stopgap still viable?

at this point?

So just for clarity, Congressman, is that something that's really on the table?

Where do you fall on this idea of a longer-term government funding bill?

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has floated that there could be an up-and-down vote once the government reopens on a one-year extension of these expiring Affordable Care Act premium subsidies.

But Democrats say that they don't want to get on board with that because there's no guarantee that such a vote would happen in the House.

Do you think that this is something that House Speaker Mike Johnson should bring to the floor so there is at least this debate on perhaps structural changes or some sort of extension down the road?

Congressman, I also want to ask you about something else that the government shutdown has impacted, which is economic aid for farmers.

Now, the Trump administration says that it is planning to unveil $3 billion worth of such economic assistance tomorrow.

Actually, I've learned that Missouri, your state, is one of the top three soybean producing states in the country.

I'm wondering how you are looking ahead to this meeting between, potential meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.