Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democrat leader, will use pro forma session to try to pass measure requiring president to withdraw US forces from Middle East<\/p>\n
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Democratic party leaders have vowed to renew the effort to curb Donald Trump\u2019s war in Iran after several days of escalating tactics that culminated in a temporary ceasefire.<\/strong><\/p>\n After a private meeting at the White House with Mark Rutte, <\/strong>the Nato secretary general, Donald Trump<\/strong> seemed to renew his threats against the defensive military alliance for not helping fight the US-Israeli war on Iran, and hinted he could again try to seize Greenland from Nato member Denmark.<\/p>\n Before Trump stepped into his meeting with the Nato secretary-general, and as the ceasefire with Iran seemed to be falling apart on its first day, the president found time to continue a social-media feud with his former ally Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Speaking to reporters in Hungary, the US vice-president, JD Vance<\/strong>, claimed not to recognize the name of the Vatican ambassador to the US when he was asked about reports that a Pentagon official had reprimanded that Catholic diplomat, Cardinal Christophe Pierre<\/strong>, over the American-born pope\u2019s opposition to US militarism.<\/p>\n At a Pentagon press conference, Pete Hegseth <\/strong>said that Iran<\/a> \u201cbegged for this ceasefire\u201d, and claimed that Operation Epic Fury \u201cdecimated\u201d Iran\u2019s military.<\/p>\n The US justice department announced<\/a> that the FBI arrested Courtney Williams<\/strong>, a military veteran who later worked in support of Delta Force, a covert commando unit, after she was indicted for \u201calleged transmission of classified national defense information to individuals not authorized to receive it, including a journalist\u201d.<\/p>\n Trump, who announced with some fanfare last year<\/a> a doubling of tariffs on imported steel, plans to use tens of millions of dollars worth of donated foreign steel to build his $400m White House ballroom, the New York Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democrat leader, will use pro forma session to try to pass measure requiring president to withdraw US forces from Middle East Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Democratic party leaders have vowed to renew the effort to curb Donald Trump\u2019s war in Iran after several days of escalating … 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-71237","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\/71237","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=71237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}