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Live updates: GOP senators report yelling in closed-door meeting with Trump

Cassidy said he told Trump that the American people had not been told what was happening in the Iran war.

Live updates: GOP senators report yelling in closed-door meeting with Trump
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President Donald Trump canceled a signing ceremony for a bipartisan housing bill and pressed Senate Republicans to prioritize the SAVE America Act, prompting sharp exchanges over housing, election rules and the Iran war. Sen. Bill Cassidy said he challenged Trump during a closed-door meeting.

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Bill Cassidy R · LA · SEN
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Bill Cassidy
R · LA · SEN

Senator who confronted Trump during the meeting about the Iran war

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Donald Trump
R · President of the United States

President who canceled the housing-bill signing and pressed senators to prioritize the SAVE America Act

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Rick Scott
R · FL · SEN

Senator who appeared with Trump after the meeting

Mike Johnson
R · LA-4

House Speaker who said the White House viewed voting reforms as urgent

Raphael G. Warnock
D · GA · SEN

Senator who said the housing bill would help families buy homes rather than institutional investors

John Barrasso
R · WY · SEN

Senate majority whip shown with Trump after the meeting

John Thune
R · SD · SEN

Senate majority leader who said he had just learned of the canceled signing schedule

Gerald E. Connolly
Former U.S. Representative (D-VA)

Late former representative named in a law Trump had signed

Senator urging Trump to sign the bipartisan housing bill

Mike Rounds
R · SD · SEN

Senator who said attendees had few chances to ask Trump questions

Thom Tillis
R · NC · SEN

Senator criticizing the surprise cancellation of the housing-bill signing

Chuck Schumer
D · NY · SEN

Senate minority leader criticizing Republicans' divisions

Maxine Waters
D · CA-43

Representative and housing-bill champion criticizing Trump's decision not to sign it

John Kennedy
R · LA · SEN

Senator who supports attaching the SAVE America Act to a government spy law

Chris Van Hollen
D · MD · SEN

Senator who described the bill's limits on institutional homebuyers

White House press secretary who had praised the housing bill before Trump canceled the signing

Roger Marshall
R · KS · SEN

Senator who compared the meeting to doctors yelling at a hospital board meeting

Ted Cruz
R · TX · SEN

Senator who called the meeting a spirited discussion

James C. Justice
R · WV · SEN

Senator who discussed the exchange between Cassidy and Trump

John Cornyn
R · TX · SEN

Senator who described the meeting and criticized the delay around the housing bill

ALSO MENTIONED  Gavin Newsom, California governor criticizing Trump's decision in a social-media post; Mark Rutte, NATO secretary general who met Trump in the Oval Office

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Trump Meets Senate Republicans After Canceling Housing Bill Ceremony

Trump met Senate Republicans at the Capitol, where Cassidy defended his vote to limit presidential war powers over Iran. Trump also canceled a planned housing-bill signing while pressing lawmakers to pass a proof-of-citizenship voting bill. Left-leaning outlets foreground Cassidy’s confrontation with Trump over Iran, though The Daily Beast dramatizes his challenge more than Daily Kos. Center outlets cover the same dispute in mostly reportorial terms, with varying emphasis on the Iran vote, Trump’s voting-bill demand and the housing signing.

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