Anti-Trump Republican Thomas Massie pursuing measures against defense secretary as Iran war blamed for party\u2019s sweeping midterm losses<\/p>\n
Republican Thomas Massie moves to force vote to impeach Hegseth<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Sign up for the US Breaking News email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n On their first day back in the Capitol after comprehensive defeats in last week\u2019s midterm elections, Republicans<\/a> were divided into two camps: those who saw the catastrophe coming, and those who did not.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI told you exactly what was going to happen. Over and over and over, I told you,\u201d said West Virginia senator Jim Justice. \u201cI said really and truly, if you weren\u2019t concerned and you were a Republican, you were living in a cave. That was my exact words.\u201d<\/p>\n Donald Trump was joined by Dana White, the CEO of UFC, at a press conference. <\/strong>At the conference, Trump defended Hegseth<\/strong>, saying his defense secretary \u201cwon two wars\u201d, and called Massie \u201ca stone cold loser\u201d and \u201csick\u201d.<\/p>\n After saying that his deportation policy was \u201ctoo tough\u201d and offering to strike an immigration deal with Democrats in an interview on 60 Minutes<\/a> broadcast on Sunday, Donald Trump on Monday said his administration\u2019s deportation policy was \u201cvery strong.\u201d <\/strong>\u201cSomebody suggested, will there be amnesty? No, but\u2014 they came in. They knew the law,\u201d Trump told reporters during a press conference today. He added that he had not spoken with incoming chief of staff Stephen Miller<\/strong> about any changes.<\/p>\n In its first major move since last week\u2019s elections, the Senate has advanced bipartisan legislation to speed up permitting reviews for data centers and other infrastructure projects. <\/strong>The Senate voted 73-25 to formally take up the bill, which would shorten the timeline for approving both clean and fossil fuel energy projects.<\/p>\n A Utah judge scheduled the trial of the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk for June 2028. <\/strong>District Judge Tony Graf allocated 105 days for the trial. Graf said the 2028 date balances the defense\u2019s right to prepare with the Kirk family\u2019s desire for a speedy resolution.<\/p>\n The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration<\/a> to resume border wall construction in the Big Bend region of Texas. <\/strong>The majority paused a lower court\u2019s decision as the case plays out. The Trump administration had filed an emergency appeal, saying there are illegal border crossings and drug seizures in the region.<\/p>\n After initially saying he would accept the results of the midterm elections, Trump has begun to cast doubt Democrats\u2019 electoral wins. <\/strong>\u201cDoes anybody really believe that this \u2018Election\u2019 was honest,\u201d he wrote on Truth Social. Democratic senator Chuck Schumer <\/strong>responded to Trump\u2019s statement, saying that the president\u2019s \u201creturn to election denialism was inevitable\u201d.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anti-Trump Republican Thomas Massie pursuing measures against defense secretary as Iran war blamed for party\u2019s sweeping midterm losses Republican Thomas Massie moves to force vote to impeach Hegseth Sign up for the US Breaking News email On their first day back in the Capitol after comprehensive defeats in last week\u2019s midterm elections, Republicans were divided … 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81140","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=81140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}