Trump gets in shouting match with Republican senator amid standoff over housing bill and president's anger at war powers vote
By: the Guardian
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Donald Trump spoke only briefly to reporters before and after his lunch with Republican senators, but offered no indication he was changing course on a series of policy decisions that have upended Congress.
The president is demanding that the Senate pass the Save America Act, a bill to tighten voting regulations nationwide that has no path to passing the upper chamber. Earlier, he cancelled a signing ceremony for a major housing bill, saying he wanted Save America approved first, and has similarly tied its approval to the renewal of a key foreign surveillance bill.
Addressing the press after the lunch, Trump made a point to note that “we like our leader”. That seemed to be an endorsement of John Thune , the Republican Senate majority leader whose job he has made more difficult by demanding he shepherd through the chamber legislation that does not have the votes to clear the Democrats’ filibuster.
And one GOP senator described the meeting with Donald Trump as “more of a venting session for the president ”.
That and these are from Punchbowl News’s Andrew Desiderio:
Trump and Cassidy just went at each other over Iran during the Senate GOP lunch, per source in room. Trump was interrupting Cassidy as Cassidy was calling the war a ‘blunder. ’ Other senators tried to jump in but Cassidy & Trump kept going back & forth, source said.
In addition to the below, another GOP senator (who asked to be referred to as ‘ disgruntled ’) said Trump was in a sour mood from the start , and that was only exacerbated by his interaction with Cassidy over Iran , which came as Trump was berating R’s who voted for war powers res
Per multiple people in the room: – Cassidy came in guns blazing , at one point stopped calling Trump ‘Mr President ’ and referred to him as ‘brother’ —Trump repeated what he’s said on social media about the housing bill, SAVE Act & the filibuster, but nobody pushed back
I’m also told that there were no direct interactions between Trump and Thune during the meeting .
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