The joke in the House is we say the opposition is the Democrats, but the enemy is the Senate.

I say that jokingly.

But the key here is for the Senate to move forward, to hold hearings on a legislative text

and then begin and get to a markup where they can finalize the formation of the text

and work between Senate banking and Senate ag.

One of the most difficult things to do on Capitol Hill is to get committees to work together.

Chairman of the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Congressman Brian Stile joins us now.

Hey, Brian. Hey, thanks for having me on. Ofets, Congressman Brian Stile joins us now.

Hey, Brian.

Hey, thanks for having me on.

Of course.

Thanks for being here.

We got to start with, I guess, the elephant in the room.

The government is shut down.

And I think folks who are watching this industry are wondering what that means for progress on legislation.

And what it means for agencies like the SEC and CFTC that are going to have to operate with a lot less employees. Yeah, a federal government shutdown is unproductive

for everyone. It shows you how absolutely broken the spending process is in Washington. Big picture,

I've had legislation would just end this process. It would just put spending on a recurring two-week

window, prevent shutdowns, take it off the table, and remove the brinksmanship that we see time and

again. That's not going to pass in this short window here. How do we get out of this?

We just got to fund the government for the next seven weeks and then allow the negotiations to play

out for the 2026 fiscal year appropriations, the spending process, as well as other policy

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