(TNND) — Senators are reportedly considering skipping their summer break after House members skipped town early.

But will they really give up their August recess? And how much can they get done if they stay in Washington while lawmakers from the other chamber are back in their home districts?

“I would bet against them skipping break entirely,” said Casey Burgat, the Legislative Affairs Program Director at George Washington University. “August recess is just baked into the congressional calendar. And not only does it give members the chance to recharge, they plan their whole personal lives around it, to say nothing of meeting with constituents back home.”

If the Senate does stay in session next month, it’ll be focused on President Donald Trump’s executive and judicial nominations.

“On any legislative front, they obviously need the other chamber there to pass whatever bills that they want to get to the president's desk,” Burgat said.

The House started its August recess early with unrest over the Jeffrey Epstein case.

The Justice Department issued a memo earlier this month that stated it found no evidence that the deceased financier and convicted sex offender had kept a "client list" or that he was murdered when he died in jail.

Burgat said some Trump supporters, including some Republican members of Congress, felt like the Justice Department conclusion was throwing “mud in the face” of supporters and that it ran counter to the transparency the administration had promised.

“It's obviously affecting a lot of not only voters, but we see members of Congress on Trump's MAGA wing, kind of distancing themselves from this and borderline outright voting against Trump's wishes,” Burgat said. “I saw today that there were subpoenas going out to DOJ for documents, and a lot of Republicans are signing on. So, a huge signal of derailment and maybe a fracture within the Republican conference.”

Meanwhile, the Senate is still scheduled to be in Washington for another week.

And Trump has urged Majority Leader John Thune to keep senators in session through August to get his nominees confirmed.

Thune told Axios this week that he’s thinking about granting Trump’s wish to cancel at least part of the recess.

"We want to get as many noms through the pipeline as we can," Thune told Axios.

And Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville told USA Today that he was in favor of staying in Washington instead of going on break.

“They pay us to work,” Tuberville said. “They don’t pay us to go home and sit for a month.”

But Axios reported that Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski pushed back on the idea of skipping the summer break.

“You get us for the rest of the year back here, but there's got to be some time when we can actually be addressing the needs of our constituents back home,” Murkowski said, according to Axios.

Congress has passed Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” his key tax and policy legislation, along with a rescission package that clawed back billions of dollars for foreign aid and public broadcasting.

But lawmakers still need to pass spending bills by the end of the fiscal year, Sept. 30, to keep the government funded.

And, even if they skip their break, senators might not be able to make progress on that front next month with the House in recess.

“They are obviously behind what they are supposed to be in passing individual appropriations bills and holding hearings and moving the process forward on funding the government,” Burgat said. “But that is not unique to this Republican conference or even recent congresses of both parties. They have increasingly appropriated by deadline and by continuing resolution.”

Complicating the matter is the frustration among some Republicans over the routine of last-minute funding extensions or omnibus packages in place of individual appropriations bills.

And Burgat said Democrats might try to take advantage of disagreements within the Republican Party to leverage concessions within the budget process.

“What we don't know is how far they're willing to go on the shutdown,” Burgat said of the possibility that Congress doesn’t pass spending bills or a stopgap measure by the end of September.

“I think a lot of Democrat members, their voters, want to see them stand up to Trump and Republicans. And will that include a shutdown? Maybe. Probably,” he said. “But do they want to be tagged with being so obstructionist that they shut down the government when they're in the minority heading into an election year, when those are historically very unpopular moves?”