{"id":17696,"date":"2026-06-25T12:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17696"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:31:40","slug":"trumps-showdown-with-republican-sen-cassidy-inside-the-blow-up-on-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17696","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s showdown with Republican Sen. Cassidy: Inside the blow-up on Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>By STEVEN SLOAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 \u201cWould you really like to know?\u201d Sen. Bill Cassidy asked President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17694\">Senate Republicans reject war powers resolution after Trump berates them at Capitol meeting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy, one of the four Republicans who backed the measure, was ready with an answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stood and said, \u2018You have not told the American people what\u2019s going on,\u2019\u201d Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, recounted to reporters afterward. \u201cThis is supposed to last four weeks. It\u2019s lasted four months. Our original objectives have not been achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Things deteriorated from there.<\/p>\n<p>When Cassidy told Trump he would continue voting for war powers resolutions until there\u2019s a congressional briefing on developments in Iran, the senator recalled that Trump \u201cdid not particularly care for my comments\u201d and \u201craised his voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201clunatic,\u201d the person said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cassidy acknowledged losing his temper, which he said was \u201cnot appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I again matched his tone and volume,\u201d Cassidy said, before recalling that he eventually sat down. \u201cAnd so I sat down and tried to de-escalate. I guess my point is, though, that the American people need to know more than we\u2019re being told.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within hours, Cassidy was invited to the White House to receive the briefing he had requested with Vice President JD Vance and Trump envoy Steve Witkoff. Cassidy then stood down, returning to the Capitol and casting a late-night vote against a similar war powers resolution. This time, Republicans blocked the measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank Vice President Vance and Special Envoy Witkoff for the thorough briefing this afternoon on Iran,\u201d Cassidy posted on X. \u201cI appreciate the quick invitation to the White House to address many of my concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>A remarkable exchange between a GOP senator and Trump<\/h4>\n<p>Still, the back-and-forth was a remarkable exchange between a two-term Republican senator and a president from his own party. It\u2019s a departure from the posture many congressional Republicans have adopted during Trump\u2019s second term as they mostly avoid criticizing him in public while expressing frustration in private.<\/p>\n<p>And the comments reflected the growing unease among congressional Republicans about the durability of their thin majorities on Capitol Hill in this year\u2019s elections, particularly in the turmoil of the Iran war. And it reflected the long-festering enmity between Trump and Cassidy that came to a head this year.<\/p>\n<p>Trump effectively ended Cassidy\u2019s political career by backing a Republican rival in Louisiana\u2019s Republican primary. Cassidy last month became the first incumbent senator in 14 years to lose a primary, driven largely by his vote to convict Trump in the impeachment trial for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy said Trump brought up his election defeat as they argued. He described the president\u2019s comments as part of \u201cwhatever comes to mind as to demean another person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17688\">At least 164 dead and 971 injured after powerful quakes rock Venezuela, acting president says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before his losing the primary, Cassidy spent much of his time trying to make amends, largely supporting the president\u2019s policies and nominees. He has taken a tougher stance since losing his primary, freed from having to face Republican voters who remain loyal to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does not appear, although I don\u2019t know for sure, that the course of (the Iran war) is going the way that we were told,\u201d Cassidy said. \u201cAnd so I make no apologies for standing up to the president, if you will, trying to demand that more information be shared with the Senate, and more information be shared with the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Republicans try to play down the episode<\/h4>\n<p>Cassidy\u2019s colleagues didn\u2019t offer robust support, with Trump in the room, though Cassidy said they didn\u2019t have much of a chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president just kind of talked and talked and talked and talked and talked,\u201d Cassidy said.<\/p>\n<p>The White House didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment on Cassidy\u2019s characterization of the meeting and some Republicans tried to play down the clash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cY\u2019all act like no one ever yelled at each other,\u201d Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tommy Tuberville, an Alabama Republican and former college football coach, described the encounter as \u201chalftime talk\u201d in the aftermath of the senator\u2019s defeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably needed to be said, end of the day,\u201d he said. \u201cI think they got a lot of \u2014 both of them \u2014 got a lot off their chests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others noted dryly that the meeting had been advertised as a chance for Trump and the Republicans to get on the same page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was quite a unity message,\u201d said Sen. John Cornyn, the Texas Republican who lost his primary to a Trump-backed challenger just weeks after Cassidy.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he was being sarcastic, Cornyn stepped into an elevator and let the doors close.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17682\">Oil tankers navigate the Strait of Hormuz despite threats from Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Associated Press writer Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&#8217;s visit to Capitol Hill rekindled a feud with Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, who confronted Trump about the Iran war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-based-on-facts-either-observed-and-verified-directly-by-the-reporter-or-reported-and-verified-from-knowledgeable-sources","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump\u2019s showdown with Republican Sen. 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