President Donald Trump on Sunday pushed Republicans to get behind his taxation bill that will fund his agenda as the self-imposed Fourth of July deadline approaches.
“Great unity in the Republican Party, perhaps unity like we have never seen before. Now let’s get the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill done,” Trump wrote on social media.
Trump addressed the nation on Saturday night after the U.S. carried out airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facility, which he called "a spectacular military success."
President Donald Trump announced he signed an executive order Thursday extending the deadline for TikTok's ban.
ByteDance, the parent company of the social media platform, was forced to sell its company or be shut down, by an act of Congress passed last year.
This will be Trump's third time pausing the enforcement of the bipartisan law passed in Congress that gave ByteDance until Jan. 19 to sell TikTok's U.S. operations or be removed from app stores nationwide.
Upon taking office, Trump delayed the ban's enforcement for 75 days before announcing another 75-day extension in April, after a potential deal to sell the app to American owners was curtailed due to Trump's imposition of steep tariffs on Chinese goods.
President Donald Trump speaks to the press in the Oval Office of the White House as members of Italian soccer club Juventus pay a visit in Washington, June 18, 2025.
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-ABC News' Hannah Demissie
Jun 19, 2025, 6:18 AM EDT
Trump to receive intelligence briefing in Situation Room
President Donald Trump is scheduled on Thursday to receive an intelligence briefing at 11:30 a.m. ET in the Situation Room, according to the White House.
A U.S. flag flies on a new flagpole installed on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. June 18, 2025.
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-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh
Jun 18, 2025, 5:58 PM EDT
Intel Committee Democrat says Senate in the dark about Trump’s Iran plan
Sen. Mark Warner, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, expressed alarm Wednesday at the lack of information from the Trump administration about its Iran plan, suggesting even his Republican colleagues are in the dark. He also argued it is "dangerous" for Trump to blow off the intelligence community's assessment suggesting that Iran is not currently building a nuclear weapon.
“I have no foggy idea what this administration's plans are, or what the foreign policy is vis a vis Iran," Warner said during an interview with CNN. "It's just beyond belief to me."
Warner is a member of the Gang of Eight, the top leaders in the House and Senate along with the chairs and ranking members of the Senate and House intelligence committees who are briefed on classified intelligence matters by the executive branch.
Sen. Mark Warner questions witnesses during a Senate Committee on Intelligence hearing "to examine worldwide threats," March 25, 2025.
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Warner said senators received a briefing on Monday from members of the intelligence community who said they had not received any intelligence suggesting Iran had moved towards developing a more fulsome nuclear weapon.
"And if this president is going to suddenly blow off all of the consensus opinion of the intelligence community? Well, what are these folks’ job? Their job is to speak truth to power, not cook the books. When you cook intelligence, you end up with a war like Iraq, where a president at that point didn't follow the intelligence, and the intelligence was manipulated. I worry that we may be seeing some of that going on," Warner said.
He also noted some of his Republican colleagues aren't clued in on the administration's plans either.
"I don't think a lot of my Republican colleagues, no matter what they've said, have got any sense of idea of what is the plan, what happens after a potential bombing run," Warner said.
-ABC News’ Mariam Khan
Jun 18, 2025, 4:29 PM EDT
Youngkin calls for elected officials to be held to 'high standard,' not interfere with law enforcement
Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, in a brief phone interview with ABC News on Wednesday, implicitly criticized how California Sen. Alex Padilla and New York City Comptroller Brad Lander acted when they were handcuffed or detained by federal agents on Thursday and Tuesday, respectively.
Youngkin said "as elected officials, have to hold ourselves to a standard where we are not addressing and potentially be seen as interrupting law enforcement in their work. And I just think that's the standard we have to hold ourselves to.”
Asked if he was thinking specifically of Padilla and Lander when saying that, Youngkin responded, “I'm commenting on any elected official who interferes with the execution of law enforcement of their duties."
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is placed under arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents outside federal immigration court, June 17, 2025, in New York.
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"It's just inappropriate. And it is appropriate to express disagreement. It's our First Amendment ... But as elected officials, we also have to hold ourselves to a high standard; we can express our disagreements, but we can't interfere with law enforcement,” Youngkin continued.
