Maeve Sheehy

They see this as their best shot to win back some of the seats they lost in 2024.

But Trump is kind of downplaying it and saying, you know, affordability is not the biggest issue here because he's already essentially solved it.

Trump actually said you don't notice the word affordability.

over the past two weeks because he's, quote, won.

He's won affordability.

It's an interesting thing to say at a time when, you know, the midterm campaigns are really heating up for November, which will determine the control of the House and the Senate.

It just shows how stalled negotiations are between the White House and between Senate Democrats and how far apart they are and what we're looking at.

Starting tonight, dozens of the most commonly used prescription drugs will be available at dramatic discounts for all consumers throughout the world.

a new website.

It's called TrumpRx.gov.

This is something that we've heard the Trump administration kind of toy with and talk about for a little while.

If you go to this website, they have more than 40 medicines available.

These include major weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wagovi, and they're available for just anyone.

The House is not in session until Monday, and Speaker Johnson told me yesterday that they would have some trouble trying to get people back before then over the weekend, although that doesn't mean that they won't try.

So we're looking at probably a shutdown until, you know, at least Monday evening.

The arrival of a U.S.

aircraft carrier strike group

does give Trump a bunch of new options to carry out his threats to attack Iran.

On the flip side, that would carry some serious risks of retaliation.

When there's a shutdown, a partial shutdown over the weekend, it usually doesn't have so much impact.