Republicans join in with US president\u2019s demand for John Thune to push through Save America act <\/p>\n
Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.<\/p>\n Republican Senate majority leader John Thune came under renewed pressure last night to change the rules to force a vote on the Save America act, a sprawling bill that would upend elections for American voters amid the midterms.<\/strong><\/p>\n He\u2019s got to be a leader.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve got colleagues who just simply won\u2019t believe the Democrats will actually do it, just because two of them held out last time – those [two] who\u2019ve been purged from their party<\/p>\n So let\u2019s get them on the record. Let\u2019s \u2014-[make the] first vote out, \u2018let\u2019s end the filibuster\u2019 – and just see what they do.<\/p>\n Donald Trump<\/strong> insisted to reproters that the war on Iran he launched from his Florida beach club is going so well that \u201cmost people\u201d on the cable news channels he turns to for information, \u201csay it\u2019s already been won\u201d.<\/p>\n In a political rally in Kentucky, the president urged voters to get rid of Thomas Massie<\/strong>, the Republican congressman who co-wrote the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which compelled the justice department to release investigative files of Jeffrey Epstein, the late child sex offender Trump socialized with for nearly two decades.<\/p>\n The United States bombed an Iranian girls\u2019 elementary school, killing at least 175 people, many of them girls between the ages of 7 and 12, according to the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n Joe Rogan<\/strong>, the podcaster who hosted and endorsed<\/a> Donald Trump in 2024, said that the US military attacks on Venezuela and Iran ordered by Trump were a betrayal of voters won over by his claim to be against regime change wars.<\/p>\n As video circulating online<\/a> showed oil tankers filled with Iraqi oil in flames in the Persian Gulf after reported attacks by Iran, Trump assured his supporters in Hebron, Kentucky, that the war on Iran is already over and \u201cwe won\u201d.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Republicans join in with US president\u2019s demand for John Thune to push through Save America act Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Republican Senate majority leader John Thune came under renewed pressure last night to change the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}