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Stay up to date with live coverage of the Trump administration and national politics Wednesday as President Trump vowed to bomb the Iranian regime “back to the stone ages” during his primetime address to the nation.
“Thanks to the progress we’ve made, I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly,” Trump insisted during the 20-minute speech.
He asserted that the US is “winning bigger than ever before” in Iran — and that Tehran is responsible for the high gas prices Americans are facing at the pump.
“This short-term increase has been entirely the result of the Iranian regime launching deranged terror attacks against commercial oil tankers in neighboring countries that have nothing to do with the conflict,” he said.
Trump also warned that Iran’s electric power plants could be the next American target.
Earlier Wednesday, the record 46-day partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security could end soon as House Republicans appear to have caved and backed the Senate plan to fund all of DHS except parts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as US Customs and Border Protection.
Trump also became the first sitting president in US history to observe oral arguments as the Supreme Court pummeled an administration lawyer on his effort to change birthright citizenship policy.
While it wasn’t fully clear which way the high court will go in the landmark case, Republican-appointed justices made clear they were far from a lock for the administration — as Trump was in the room.
***Follow live updates on President Trump, the Iran war and national politics for the latest news, analysis and more:***
House wraps up session without approving DHS funding bill
The House of Representatives gaveled into a pro forma session Thursday for a few minutes — but declined to pass the Senate's Department of Homeland Security funding bill.
Earlier today, the Senate rejected the House's amendment to that bill, which transformed it into a 60-day stopgap measure to fully fund the DHS.
GOP leadership agreed Wednesday to take the Senate's approach and fund all of DHS except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Customs and Border Protection, which Republicans intended to do later during the reconciliation process.
Speculation had swirled that House Republicans may attempt to green-light the Senate's DHS funding bill during its pro forma session Thursday — a scaled-down, ceremonial meeting the lower chamber has when it's out on recess.
Such a move would've likely drawn backlash from some Republican reps who wanted a chance to vote against it.
Thune calls for ICE funding bill to be as 'narrow and focused as possible'
Senate Majority Leader John Thune called for the funding bill for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be as "narrow and focused as possible."
"I'm not sure how on a reconciliation vehicle like this, that we need to kind of move with haste as the President has pointed out, is probably not a likely a magnet for all these other issues," Thune told reporters.
Reconciliation will allow Republicans to pass ICE funding without Democratic support to overcome the 60-vote filibuster.
It's the same process used to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Republicans agreed Wednesday on a two-track approach to end the partial Department of Homeland Security shutdown, including a bill to fund everything in the department except ICE and Customs and Border Protection.
Then they'd use reconciliation to fund ICE and CBP.
Senate rejected House-passed DHS funding bill, sends its measure own back
The Senate in a brief voice vote early Thursday morning rejected a House-passed bill funding the Department of Homeland Security — and sent its own bill back to the lower chamber as it had the week before.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) appeared in the upper chamber with Sen.
Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) presiding as president pro tempore to ask for unanimous consent to table the House measure a little after 7 a.m.
No other senators objected.
Thune then returned the same bill that the Senate had passed last Friday to the House, which would fund DHS but not some of its agencies conducting federal immigration enforcement operations.
Those activities will now be funded through a GOP reconciliation bill after a deal was reached with Thune, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and President Trump.
Democrats sue Trump over executive order tightening mail-in voting rules
Democrats filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday challenging President Trump’s executive order tightening mail-in voting rules ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
“Donald Trump, with record low poll numbers, should take no solace in believing he can undo a fair election with this outlandish executive order,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who is a plaintiff in the lawsuit, wrote on X.
“Senate Democrats have led the fight against his voter suppression efforts before & won,” Schumer added.
“We will see him in court & we will win again.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the Democratic National Committee and multiple other Democratic Party groups are also listed as plaintiffs.
They are being represented by Democratic super-lawyer Marc Elias.
They argue Trump’s order threatens to “disenfranchise lawful voters and plainly exceed the President’s lawful authority.”
Trump describes eliminating Iran threat as an ‘investment’ in the future of American children
President Trump made the case Wednesday that eliminating the threat posed by Iran is an “investment” in the future of American children.
“They were the bully of the Middle East, but they're the bully no longer,” Trump said of the Iranian regime, during his prime-time address to the nation.
“This is a true investment in your children and your grandchildren's future,” he declared.
Trump: Iran's electric power plants could be next target
Iran's electric power plants could be the next American target, President Trump warned, if no peace deal is made over the next two or three weeks.
"If, during this period of time, no deal is made, we have our eyes on key targets," he said.
"If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously," the president previewed.
"We have not hit their oil, even though that's the easiest target of all, because it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding.
But we could hit it, and it would be gone, and there's not a thing they could do about it."
Sen.
Lindsey Graham calls Trump’s speech a ‘defining moment’ in war: ‘He's telling Iran how this movie ends’
Sen.
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) hailed President Trump’s primetime address Wednesday as a “defining moment” in the Iran war.
“Here's what President Trump said tonight: If you're in Iran, you better be listening.
I'm willing to do a deal to make sure you don't become the largest state sponsor of terrorism,” Graham said during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
“This was a defining moment in this campaign,” the senator added.
“He defined the end state.
He set the objectives early on.
We're inside the 10-yard line, and he's telling Iran how this movie ends.
“It's up to you,” Graham continued, addressing the Iranian regime.
“We can do it through diplomacy, and if you reject diplomacy, this will end with a decimation of your ability to ever come back, economically.”
UAE, Israel face Iranian missiles as Trump spoke about war with Tehran
The United Arab Emirates came under a missile attack as President Trump addressed the nation, CNN reported.
Air raid sirens were going off in Dubai, with the UAE's air defenses reporting incoming missiles and drones.
"Air defenses are dealing with rocket and drone attacks coming from Iran," its ministry of defense said.
Additionally, sirens have been going off across Israel, including Tel Aviv, with reports of Iranian missiles targeting the nation.
Trump urges Americans to keep Iran war 'in perspective' compared to previous conflicts
President Trump urged Americans to keep the conflict in Iran "in perspective."
The president pointed out that the Iran war is on its 32nd day, while American involvement in World War I lasted over a year; World War II was three years, and the Vietnam War was a 19-year conflict.
"It's very important that we keep this conflict in perspective," he noted.
‘Survivor’ fans enraged as Trump’s presidential address cuts into CBS show
“Survivor” fans are fuming after President Donald Trump’s speech interrupted the CBS series’ extra-long merge episode.
The two-hour episode of “Survivor 50” was scheduled to air Wednesday night from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
ET, but was interrupted by the president’s address that aired at 9 p.m.
ET.
“Survivor” fans were not happy over the speech cutting into the episode, to say the least.
“Most game-changing episode of Survivor… and it’s stopped because a trump announcement,” one X user griped.
Trump implored other countries to take Strait of Hormuz: 'Grab it and cherish it'
President Trump told countries that receive oil through the Strait of Hormuz “must take care of that passage” and “cherish it.”
“They must grab it and cherish it,” he said of the major waterway to move oil from the Middle East to Europe and Asia.
Trump said nations that receive their oil that way should “take the lead in protecting the oil that they so desperately depend on.”
“Build up some delayed courage,” he advised.
But he also projected confidence that the strait, which is laced with mines and drones, will open on its own.
“When this conflict is over, the strait will open up naturally.
It will just open up naturally.
They're going to want to be able to sell oil, because that's all they have to try and rebuild,” he said of Iran.
Trump's address on the war with Iran has ended
President Trump's address on the war with Iran has ended, with the commander in chief speaking for about 20 minutes.
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