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Trump’s showdown with Republican Sen. Cassidy: Inside the blow-up on Capitol Hill​

By STEVEN SLOAN
Updated 6:23 PM CDT, June 24, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — “Would you really like to know?” Sen. Bill Cassidy asked President Donald Trump.

Just hours after refusing to sign a bipartisan housing bill that Republicans hoped would boost their election-year prospects, the president was attending a private lunch Wednesday with the Senate GOP. Trump wondered aloud how anyone could have voted for a war powers resolution a day earlier that seeks to block further U.S. military action against Iran.

Cassidy, one of the four Republicans who backed the measure, was ready with an answer.

“I stood and said, ‘You have not told the American people what’s going on,’” Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, recounted to reporters afterward. “This is supposed to last four weeks. It’s lasted four months. Our original objectives have not been achieved.”

Things deteriorated from there.

When Cassidy told Trump he would continue voting for war powers resolutions until there’s a congressional briefing on developments in Iran, the senator recalled that Trump “did not particularly care for my comments” and “raised his voice.”

Trump repeatedly told Cassidy to sit down, according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe a private meeting. At one point, the president called the senator a “lunatic,” the person said. ...

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Trump berates Senate Republicans over Iran war vote after calling off bill signing

President Donald Trump has berated Senate Republicans during his visit to the Capitol for allowing a vote to block his war in Iran, further escalating a feud that has diverted GOP efforts to focus on election-year affordability issues and brought much of the chamber’s business to a halt.
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‘He named names’: Trump’s Senate meeting explodes into shouting match over Iran

Trump's meeting with Senate Republicans devolved into a shouting match over Iran war powers, with Sen. Bill Cassidy confronting the president directly.
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Trump refuses to sign bipartisan housing bill into law. What does that mean for homebuyers, renters?

A sprawling legislative package aimed at lowering the cost of housing and spurring more home construction won broad bipartisan approval from Congress this week, but it’s hit a major roadblock in becoming law.
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Trump says DOJ will 'immediately' look into price gouging at the gas pump

President Donald Trump has called for the Department of Justice to "immediately start looking into" oil companies as he accused them of price gouging.
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Federal judge bars Trump from implementing proof of citizenship requirement to vote

A federal judge has permanently barred President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections.
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Hillary Clinton still fuming over Electoral College, calls it an 'abomination' in new Netflix series

Hillary Clinton calls the Electoral College an "abomination" in a new Netflix docuseries executive-produced by Tom Hanks examining American democracy.
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Postal Service says it will not deliver ballots if states refuse to turn over voter lists under Trump proposal

Postmaster General David Steiner answered questions about the proposed rule during an appearance before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
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New York sweep by Israel critics shines light on a fraught issue for Democrats

Democratic congressional primary results in New York City are accelerating the party's debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Trump has testy meeting with GOP senators, telling Cassidy at one point to sit down

President Trump met with Republican senators soon after canceling plans to sign bipartisan housing affordability legislation at the Capitol.
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White House seeks $87.6B from Congress for Iran war costs, US farmers and Ebola response

The White House has formally requested $87.6 billion, mostly to replenish the Pentagon after the U.S. war against Iran, submitting the request to Congress at a politically difficult time, as a majority of lawmakers have objected to any further military action.
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After release of Epstein files, Ghislaine Maxwell again challenges her conviction

Ghislaine Maxwell argues in newly released filings that the release of Epstein files has exposed alleged violations that invalidate her 2021 sex-trafficking conviction.
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Trump spoke with Live Nation CEO shortly before surprise Justice Department settlement, court filing reveals

Live Nation’s chief executive spoke with President Donald Trump less than a month before the ticketing and events giant reached a surprise antitrust settlement with the Justice Department that consume...
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Highlights: Trump speaks at rally for America 250 celebrations kickoff

President Donald Trump is on Washington’s National Mall seeking to deliver a campaign-style rally for America’s 250th anniversary celebrations.
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Trump leaves major housing bill in limbo, demanding Congress pass the SAVE Act

Hours before heading to Capitol Hill, Trump called the big, bipartisan housing bill Republicans hope to run on in the fall “of minor importance.” Then, he canceled his plan to sign it.
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Federal judge bars Trump from implementing proof of citizenship requirement to vote

A federal judge has permanently barred President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections.
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Cassidy says he passed a note to Witkoff during heated Trump meeting

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Washington — GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana on Wednesday dropped his support for a Democrat-led effort to restrict President Trump's war powers in Iran after receiving a briefing at the White House — a briefing he said he secured with a note slipped to the president's envoy to the Middle East following a heated exchange with Mr. Trump behind closed doors.

"In one sense, I actually accomplished the mission of what I needed to do," Cassidy said in an interview Thursday for "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."

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Bernie Sanders, DSA reveal demands for Dem party after socialists sweep New York elections

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Following a socialist sweep in New York City’s Tuesday elections, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are dictating their terms and sending warnings to the Democratic Party not to cross them.

In a post-election call clipped by Manhattan Institute analyst Stu Smith, a DSA leader remarked that in addition to socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, "more than three million New Yorkers are now represented by socialists at multiple levels of government, and in some cases that is every level of government."

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USPS wouldn't deliver ballots in states that refuse to fork over mail-in voter info under proposed rule

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U.S. Postmaster General David Steiner indicated to Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gary Peters, D-Mich., during a Wednesday hearing that under a proposed rule, if a state declined to furnish the federal government with its absentee voter list, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) would not mail election ballots in that state.

Peters asked Steiner whether, under the proposal, the USPS would mail ballots from a state that "refuses" to provide the federal government with the state's absentee voter list.

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Judge blocks Trump executive order on mail-in voting

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Washington — A federal judge in Boston on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order that would impose stricter mail-in voting rules and create a federal list of eligible voters in every state.

The order, signed by President Trump in March, required Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to compile a list of U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state using data from the Social Security Administration. It also directed the U.S. Postal Service to send absentee ballots only to people on each state's federally...
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Supreme Court hands Trump two major immigration victories

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The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump two major immigration victories on Thursday morning, both having to do with his administration's efforts to reduce asylum claims.

In the first case, Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, the court held that migrants who are turned away at the border before entering the United States are not entitled to apply for asylum. In the second case, Mullin v. Doe, the court ruled that Haitian and Syrian nationals in the United States with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) could not receive judicial relief postponing the...
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Most Trump supporters still back NATO despite years of Trump's criticism, new poll finds

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Most Americans, including majorities of Republicans and self-identified MAGA Republicans, say keeping the United States in NATO is important to the nation's security and prosperity, according to a new poll.

The Reagan Institute Summer Survey found that 73% of Americans say remaining in NATO matters to U.S. security and prosperity, including 64% of Republicans and 61% of MAGA Republicans. Fox News Digital obtained a preview of the survey, which will be made public Sunday.

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Supreme Court lets Trump strip deportation protections from Syrians, Haitians

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Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Trump administration can move forward with its efforts to strip more than 356,000 Syrian and Haitian immigrants of temporary protections that have allowed them to live and work in the United States.

In a pair of cases that tested a key aspect of President Trump's plan to crack down on immigration, a divided Supreme Court ruled that the TPS law bars judicial review of all claims brought under federal law.

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Florida GOP candidate warns NYC socialist primary wins will fuel business, resident exodus: 'Concerning'

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NEW YORK CITY — Florida Republican House candidate Scott Singer, the former mayor of Boca Raton, is outlining the reasons he believes people and businesses will continue to flee New York City after socialists had a dominant night in Tuesday’s primary.

"It should be concerning for all Americans because you had the Democratic Party continuing to be co-opted by a fringe socialist base, which is now not the fringe," Singer, running for Congress in Florida’s 25th Congressional District, told Fox News Digital.

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‘Deranged’ vandals fuel Mall sabotage trend, from blood writing to Reflecting Pool damage

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FIRST ON FOX: Vandals have targeted the National Mall with multiple separate "8647" markings, a blood-written message on the Washington Monument and damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, prompting federal officials to warn of a growing trend.

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Supreme Court hands Second Amendment win to concealed carry holders in blue state gun control case

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the state of Hawaii's Attorney General in Wolford v. Lopez in a 6-3 decision Thursday, granting concealed carry holders a huge victory in the blue state.

The Supreme Court sided with the plaintiff, who contested Hawaii's state law requiring a property owner's explicit permission to allow lawful gun owners to bring firearms into public businesses.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

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Johnson races to break House GOP blockade in high-stakes meeting with Trump

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Mamdani-backed socialist primary winner founded group whose goal is to ‘eradicate' Western civilization

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The socialist backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani who won Tuesday night’s primary election in New York’s 13th Congressional District founded a group in college that called for the total destruction of the West.

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Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii law restricting guns on some private property

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Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Hawaii restriction that prohibits concealed-carry permit holders from bringing their firearms onto private property that is open to the public.

In a 6 to 3 decision in the case Wolford v. Lopez, the high court sided with a group of gun owners and a gun-rights group who argued that Hawaii's rule restricting where they could carry firearms violates the Second Amendment.

The justices found unconstitutional the Hawaii law that requires people with concealed-carry permits to receive permission...
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Supreme Court sides with Monsanto in case over cancer risks from weedkiller

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Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Monsanto cannot be held liable under state laws for failing to warn consumers about the alleged cancer risks of its weedkiller Roundup on its label.

In a 7-2 decision in the case Monsanto Co. v. Durnell, the high court found that a federal law regulating the sale and labeling of pesticide products bars lawsuits in state courts alleging that Monsanto failed to include a cancer warning on Roundup's labels.

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'As long as it takes': Trump allies freeze House floor to pressure Senate on voter ID bill

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A group of conservatives is vowing to grind the House floor to a halt until Republicans pass the SAVE America Act.

"There's going to be no votes this week, and it's going to be as long as it takes," Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who is leading the effort, told Fox News Digital in an interview.

The hardball tactics led House Republican leadership to pull a series of votes on Wednesday. House Speaker
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NY socialist surge could push Dem voters to defect, GOP governor candidate predicts

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FIRST ON FOX: Following a string of high-profile victories by socialist candidates, New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman warned the Democratic Party has veered too far left and predicted establishment Democrats will increasingly back Republicans.

Speaking exclusively to Fox News Digital in the wake of Tuesday's wins, Blakeman said the results underscored the growing influence of the party's progressive wing and exposed a widening divide within the Democratic coalition.

"The lunatic left has taken over the Democratic Party," he...
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Earthquake is devastating blow to Venezuela at time of uncertainty

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The quake comes less than six months after Venezuela's then-leader Nicolás Maduro was seized by US forces.
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Europe's heatwave shifts east as France raises health alert to highest level

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Temperatures in Germany could hit 40C in some areas while French officials say deaths linked to the heat are being seen among young people.
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Key figure in South Africa police corruption scandal pleads guilty

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Prosecutors say Vusimusi "Cat" Matlala could provide evidence against "high-ranking officials".
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Philippines bans video game played by alleged high school shooter

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The rare school shooting that left three students killed and 20 others injured has shocked the country.
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Senate Republican pushes overhaul to cut red tape and speed up American energy projects

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FIRST ON FOX: The Senate’s newest member is reviving an issue that has echoed through the halls of Congress for years, and one that, if successful, could turbocharge energy production in the U.S.

Sen. Alan Armstrong, R-Okla., who was appointed to replace Department of Homeland Security Secretary
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Mamdani and Hochul announce cash infusion for New York City Abortion Access Hub expansion

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New York City and New York state are funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars in new funding toward the New York City Abortion Access Hub.

Press releases from the offices of Big Apple Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Empire State Gov. Kathy Hochul declared that the two figures were announcing that the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the state's Department of Health are infusing $495,000 to expand the program's "referral network."

"The expansion will allow the Hub to connect callers with a broader network of abortion providers and...
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Conservatives flip script on Swalwell pal's family man image with reminder on pregnant ex-wife

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Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., was immediately reminded of how he served his 9-month pregnant wife with divorce papers in 2016 as he now attempts to fend off campaign finance scrutiny with family-friendly characterizations.

"My daughter Isla was born right in the middle of my Senate campaign. One of the most competitive races in the country. And instead of staying out there campaigning, I took two months off," Gallego said in a video he posted on social media.

"My wife had just been through an unplanned C-section. I wanted to be there for her, and...
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IBM hails new 'block of flats' design breakthrough for ultra tiny chips

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IBM says it has created the world's first known chip tech below 1 nanometre - but it will be some time before it's ready for production.
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Ryanair says it will reluctantly let parents sit with children for free

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The airline had typically charged adults a fee of £8 each way to sit with their young children.
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