The Senate wants the airport. Diesel still owns the farm.

Majority wants out by week’s end. Cloture on college sports is set for 5:30 p.m. Farm-state Republicans spent the weekend begging Trump on record diesel while Iran war powers sit on the calendar.

The incentive on Tuesday is jet fuel, not floor time.

Senate Republicans are eyeing departure by the end of the week, earlier than the early-October schedule they started with, Digest Wire reported. Getting there means a time deal with Democrats. Without one, the Protect College Sports Act of 2026 (S. 4668) can drag into Friday evening. The official calendar has the chamber convening at 3 p.m. Eastern, with cloture on S. 4668 and Majority Leader John Thune’s amendment ripening at 5:30 p.m., per the Senate Calendar of Business for Sept. 22. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is the named sponsor on Congress.gov.

That is the procedural board. The political board is louder.

Several farm-state Republicans this week asked President Donald Trump to cut record-high diesel prices tied to the Iran war, Digest Wire reported, even if that means crossing oil-and-gas allies. Sen. Chuck Grassley posted that high diesel is “KILLING FARMERS INCOME and urged Trump to “put an embargo on diesel exports like presidents in the 70s put embargoes on ag products bc food prices were inflated.” Michigan’s Mike Rogers and Iowa’s Ashley Hinson backed a temporary diesel-export embargo and an end to the Iran war; Reps. Zach Nunn and Mariannette Miller-Meeks also called for diesel relief, per the same Digest Wire wrap.

The White House is bracing for another Senate war-powers push aimed at ending hostilities with Iran, the Washington Examiner reported Tuesday morning, and is largely unfazed by the Democrat-led effort even as affordability arguments grow inside the party. The calendar already tees up H. Con. Res. 89 — directing the president under the War Powers Resolution to remove U.S. forces from hostilities against Iran  for consideration no later than Oct. 2, with six hours of debate and a vote on adoption, per the Sept. 22 Senate Calendar.

Also parked: H.R. 3633, the digital-commodities bill with SEC/CFTC oversight and a ban on Federal Reserve retail products and CBDC monetary policy, with cloture mechanics already waived on the motion to proceed. Digest Wire says energy-permitting talks missed an unofficial weekend deadline, and Sen. Jon Husted’s Ratepayer Protection Act — aimed at data-center power costs — is still in the maybe pile. The House, per The Hill’s conservative-agenda wrap, has already adjourned until after the midterms, stranding unfinished priorities including the SAVE America Act behind the 60-vote wall.

Trump’s Monday Truth Social pitch, reported by Fox News on Tuesday, was blunt: if Senate Republicans don’t “TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, Democrats will, and he will be “the last Republican President.” Majority Leader Thune has said he does not have the votes to kill it.

This is a calendar of exits priced against a balance sheet of diesel, Iran, and unfinished market bills. College sports cloture at 5:30 is the easy procedural print. The harder print is farm-state Republicans publicly asking for a diesel export embargo in an oil war their president owns. If the chamber flies home without moving war powers or power costs, the midterm incentive wins the week. Watch the time agreement and whether Grassley’s embargo talk becomes a floor amendment — not a speech.