With just two weeks before the midterm elections, the flow of cash into key races is not slowing down. President Trump said today that he had already spent more than $300 million in an effort to boost Republicans. He also announced that he — though more likely his super PAC, MAGA Inc. — will shell out $100 million more between now and Election Day. The Trump-allied Republican National Committee also told The Times that they were sending tens of millions of dollars to candidates, in hopes of holding onto the levers of power in Congress.
The Democratic National Committee is financially struggling, though its party's candidates are doing better in the polls. Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York, announced today that he was giving roughly $80 million to help Democrats.
Elsewhere in politics, Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, met today with the U.S. envoy, Steve Witkoff, in Oslo as Trump ramps up pressure on Kyiv to agree to a deal with Russia. Zelensky avoided criticizing the Americans at a news conference afterward, but has recently become vocal in his criticisms of Trump.
In the Middle East, the Iranian-backed Houthi militia has besieged the Yemeni city of Taiz for weeks, cutting off access to food and other basic needs. Officials said the area was running out of clean drinking water, and hospitals had nearly depleted their stocks of fuel and medical supplies.
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