83% — What will Marco Rubio say during Senate Foreign Relations Committee State Department Budget Hearing
Leader: Embassy at 83% · Kalshi 83% · 19 contracts · $2K volume · medium confidence
Updated 2026-05-28 20:33:25 UTC

Tracks the leading outcome in a winner-take-all prediction market set with 19 outcomes.

Why this matters:
This market measures the probability that Marco Rubio will mention Israel or Israeli-related topics during an upcoming Senate Foreign Relations Committee State Department Budget Hearing. At 68%, the market indicates traders consider it more likely than not that Israel will be discussed, reflecting both Rubio's known foreign policy interests and the frequency with which Middle Eastern affairs arise in such hearings. The current probability is primarily driven by Rubio's consistent focus on Israeli security matters and his role as a senior committee member, balanced against uncertainty about the specific hearing's agenda and which topics will receive attention. The hearing itself—scheduled for early June 2026—will definitively resolve whether Israel or Israeli issues are mentioned, making the actual event the key catalyst for settlement.

Key factors:
- Rubio's documented voting record and public statements on Israel policy as a reliable indicator of likely discussion topics
- The frequency with which Middle East and Israeli issues appear in State Department budget hearings versus other foreign policy topics
- The specific agenda items and witness testimony scheduled for the hearing, which will determine topical focus
- Competition from other high-priority topics (Trump mentions at 34%, Democratic responses at 53%, embassy matters at 63%) that could consume hearing time
- The hearing date in early June 2026 as the resolution trigger—the actual occurrence will determine definitively whether Israel is mentioned

Contracts:
- What will Marco Rubio say during Senate Foreign Relations Committee State Department Budget Hearing?: Embassy — 83¢ Kalshi $200 (weight 13%)
- What will Marco Rubio say during Senate Foreign Relations Committee State Department Budget Hearing?: China / Chinese — 82¢ Kalshi $151 (weight 10%)
- What will Marco Rubio say during Senate Foreign Relations Committee State Department Budget Hearing?: Nuclear — 81¢ Kalshi $128 (weight 8%)
- What will Marco Rubio say during Senate Foreign Relations Committee State Department Budget Hearing?: Negotiate / Negotiated / Negotiation — 80¢ Kalshi $133 (weight 9%)
- What will Marco Rubio say during Senate Foreign Relations Committee State Department Budget Hearing?: Hormuz — 77¢ Kalshi $1 (weight 0%)
- What will Marco Rubio say during Senate Foreign Relations Committee State Department Budget Hearing?: Israel / Israeli — 77¢ Kalshi $1 (weight 0%)
- What will Marco Rubio say during Senate Foreign Relations Committee State Department Budget Hearing?: Cuba / Cuban — 76¢ Kalshi $130 (weight 8%)
- What will Marco Rubio say during Senate Foreign Relations Committee State Department Budget Hearing?: Democrat — 76¢ Kalshi $4 (weight 0%)
- ... and 11 more

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## Methodology

SimpleFunctions aggregates live YES-side prices from Kalshi and Polymarket contracts bound to this question. For binary topics the headline is the liquidity-weighted mid-price (weight = log(1 + 24h volume) × freshness, where freshness is 1.0 if updated <24h, 0.7 if <7d, 0.4 otherwise). For multi-outcome (winner-take-all) topics the headline is the current leader's price — disjoint outcomes are never arithmetically averaged. Snapshots refresh every 5 minutes during market hours.

## SF Signal

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- No SimpleFunctions index / regime / calibration signal is bound to this topic yet — the headline above is market-derived only.

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*Last verified: 2026-05-28T20:20:07.799Z*

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