There was reportedly a “shouting match” over Iran on Wednesday, when President Donald Trump met with Republican senators.
According to Fox News, the meeting “might have been meant to find a way to pass voter ID and citizenship verification legislation, but it devolved into a tense shouting match over the war in Iran.” The meeting followed Trump’s earlier decision not to sign a housing bill that had already passed both houses of Congress by veto-proof majorities.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who already lost a primary for re-election, spoke up against Trump afterward.
“I guess my point is, though, that the American people need to know more than we are being told,” Cassidy told the media, per Fox News. “The Senate needs to know, and it does not appear, although I don’t know for sure, that the course of this is going the way that we were told.”
On Truth Social, early on Thursday, Trump posted about it, in sharing an article from the pro-Trump website Just the News about his confrontation with Cassidy. Per the Daily Beast, Trump had called the Louisiana senator a “lunatic” during the confrontation.
Cassidy, however, ultimately voted with Trump on the war powers resolution, after taking the opposite stance previously. Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joined every Democrat in voting against Trump.
President Trump’s meeting with GOP senators on Wednesday turned testy, and at one point, he told Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) to sit down, after questions arose about the War Powers Resolution, according to sources directly familiar with the meeting.
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“Wow! The Senate just changed its vote on Iran from 50-48 against, to 50-47 for,” Trump said in an earlier Truth Social post. “Rand Paul and Bill Cassidy changed. Thank you to Leader John Thune, Lindsey Graham, Bernie Moreno, and all. This vote puts Iran on notice!”
All of this happened, of course, after the administration and Iran had already reached a memorandum of understanding, announced earlier this month, to bring the war to an end. However, there remain disagreements over what exactly was agreed to by the two sides.
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