House Majority Whip Tom Emmer and Senators Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Josh Hawley (R-MO) spoke with Axios reporters Hans Nichols, Stephen Neukam, and Stef Kight about the 119th Congress and their predictions for the 2026 midterm elections. Senator Hawley's conversation with Ms. Kight was briefly interrupted by a protester upset with his approval of President Trump's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).