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Zoom out: Trump was joined by top officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum
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White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and special envoy Steve Witkoff.
Key facts
- Trump was joined by top officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and special envoy Steve Witkoff
- President Trump's lunch with GOP senators devolved into a lengthy shouting match between him and outgoing Sen
- Trump urged senators to pass the SAVE America Act and do away with the filibuster, demands he has made numerous times
- What they're saying: "The President got a lot of things off his chest," Sen
Summary
President Trump's lunch with GOP senators devolved into a lengthy shouting match between him and outgoing Sen. Trump's handling of the war in Iran and the Senate's passage of a war powers resolution consumed the conversation, despite Trump's renewed pressure to pass a voter ID bill and kill the filibuster. Trump kicked things off by calling out the four Republican senators who voted Tuesday for the war powers resolution to rein in his military campaign in Iran. Cassidy then stood up, telling Trump, "You have not told the American people what's going on. It was supposed to last four weeks. "If someone tries to bully me and say, 'Wait a second, because the reporter is whatever the reporter is, the reporter is going to bully you.' the reporter ain't going to put up with it because the reporter is sticking up for their people," Cassidy told reporters.