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A public rupture between President Donald Trump and a senior Republican senator has exposed deepening fractures within the governing coalition at a moment when key White House legislative priorities remain without a clear path forward.
The clash, which erupted during a lunch meeting with GOP senators attended by senior cabinet officials, centred on Trump's conduct of a military campaign against Iran that has now stretched to four months — well beyond the roughly four-week timeline senators say they were originally given.
Iran War Consumes the Room The confrontation was sparked when Trump singled out four Republican senators who voted for a war powers resolution that would limit his authority over the Iran campaign.
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who is leaving the Senate after losing his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, stood up and told the president directly that the American public had not been adequately informed about the scope and duration of the conflict.
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