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President Donald Trump was due for lunch with Senate Republicans<\/span> on Wednesday to celebrate signing a big new affordable housing package, and maybe spend some time reveling in primary wins by some new leftist boogeymen in New York.<\/p>\n

Read more Democrats Doubt Iran Diplomacy But See No Alternative<\/a><\/p>\n

He instead signed nothing, got in a screaming match with one senator and berated two others, livid over a vote limiting his power over the war in Iran and his party\u2019s inability to get his elections bill passed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be fair to say that he was very upset about the war powers vote,\u201d Sen. John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) said after the closed-door lunch.<\/p>\n

Senators emerging from the meeting said the hourlong conversation with the president was \u201cpassionate,\u201d particularly after he called out four Republicans who voted Tuesday to have Trump seek congressional approval<\/u><\/span> for further military action in Iran. He also demanded Republicans pass the voterID bill known as the SAVE America Act<\/span> \u2014 despite it lacking enough support.<\/p>\n

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas), a physician, told reporters afterward the session resembled \u201ca hospital board meeting when a bunch of doctors are yelling at each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, we\u2019ll figure out a way to get along,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The bickering came shortly after Trump canceled a planned signing<\/u><\/span> of a bipartisan housing bill that passed both chambers of Congress this week and was backed by Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana). Many Republicans were eager to tout the bill as a sign they are addressingthe cost of living, a major concern for voters.<\/p>\n

Trump canceled the signing over his frustrations about the war powers vote and the stalled SAVE America Act.<\/p>\n

Much of the drama in the room revolved around the Senate\u2019s recent rebuke of the war in Iran. Trump and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) had a heated exchange about the war, Trump berated Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pennsylvania) for missing the vote and he called out Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) for backing the resolution when she entered the room, a source familiar with Trump\u2019s comments told NOTUS.<\/p>\n

Cassidy, who also voted for the resolution, told reporters that Trump raised his voice after Cassidy requested a briefing from theWhite House on negotiations between the U.S. and Iran. He said he makes \u201cno apologies for standing up to the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI lost my temper, that\u2019s inappropriate,\u201d said Cassidy, who lost his primary this spring after Trump endorsed his opponent. \u201cBut I again matched his tone and his volume, and it went back and forth. \u2026 The American people need to know more than we are being told. The Senate needs to know, and it does not appear, that the course of this [war] is going the way that we were told.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kennedy told reporters that Trump was concerned about the effect of the nonbinding resolution \u2014 which has now passed both chambers of Congress \u2014 on ongoing negotiations between U.S. and Iranian officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be fair to say that he was very upset about the war powers vote,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cHe was in the middle of pretty heavy-duty negotiations, and he had to stop and explain to the Iranian negotiators why it was a meaningless vote and that totally upset him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thune told reporters that Senate Republicans also had a \u201crobust conversation\u201d with Trump about the SAVE America Act and the president\u2019s preferred pathway to advance it.<\/p>\n

Read more The Trump Administration Is Considering Even More Reflecting Pool Upgrades<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve made the point a number of times that we don\u2019t have the votes, but that\u2019s not a conclusion obviously he would like to see us draw,\u201d Thune said.<\/p>\n

But multiple senators who attended the lunch meeting told reporters that Republicans did not push back on Trump\u2019s calls to pass the legislation through the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve made it clear multiple times that if the SAVE Act requires the filibuster, it\u2019s simply not going to happen \u2014 that\u2019s been obvious long before today,\u201d Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) said when asked if senators conveyed that message to Trump at the meeting.<\/p>\n

Several senators said Trump did not discuss how to move forward on the housing bill<\/u><\/span> passed by Congress this week. It remains in legislative limbo, as it has yet to be sent to the White House.<\/p>\n

Trump later Wednesday reiterated that he does not plan to sign the housing bill until the SAVE America Act\u2019s direction becomes clearer, and added that he has problems with the legislation itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made billions of dollars with housing,\u201d Trump told reporters. \u201cI know housing better than anybody maybe anywhere. It\u2019s all about the interest rate. Lower the interest rates, you can have all the housing you want. I don\u2019t want to hurt people that own houses, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson will meet with Trump at the White House on Thursday morning to discuss the SAVE America Act and try to help reduce tensions between the White House and GOP senators.<\/p>\n

Johnson told NOTUS that he intends to present Trump with a plan to pass the bill through the Senate with a simple majority using the budget reconciliation process. Any bill would have to pass muster by the Senate parliamentarian and could lose only three Republican votes in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n

\u201cA new equation to solve every day, it\u2019s just the story of my life,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThe key is, how do you get that through the Senate. We have an idea on how to do that using reconciliation, and so I\u2019m gonna go lay that out to him in detail, and we\u2019ll talk about the merits of the bills that are still pending.\u201d<\/p>\n

The back-and-forth is only the latest sign of intraparty tensions. In recent weeks, Trump blocked the renewal of a crucial spy powers tool backed by leadership, delayed a vote on immigration and customs enforcement funding with his proposed \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund, and endorsed against Cassidy and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).<\/p>\n

\u201cLots of unity, lots of Republican love,\u201d Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) said as he emerged from the lunch meeting. Paul smiled when asked if he was being sarcastic, adding, \u201cMe, being sarcastic?\u201d<\/p>\n

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