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Senate Majority Leader John Thune escorts President Trump to the Senate Republicans' lunch meeting at the U.S. Capitol today. Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

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    • Stef W. Kight,
    • Kate Santaliz
    9 hours ago
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    Inside the Trump-Senate meltdown
    President Donald Trump, alongside Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Republican from South Dakota, speaks to the press on the way to a lunch meeting with Senate Republicans at the US Capitol.

    President Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune on the way to a lunch meeting at the U.S. Capitol on June 24. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

    President Trump's lunch with GOP senators devolved into a lengthy shouting match between him and outgoing Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.).

    Why it matters: Trump's handling of the war in Iran and the Senate's passage of a war powers resolution consumed the conversation, despite Trump's renewed pressure to pass a voter ID bill and kill the filibuster.

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    • Josephine Walker,
    • Stef W. Kight,
    • Kate Santaliz
    Updated 13 hours ago
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    Trump cancels housing affordability bill signing until SAVE Act is passed
    U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on June 22, 2026 in Washington, DC. President Trump signed two orders on quantum computing. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

    President Trump speaks at the White House on June 22, 2026. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images.

    President Trump cancelled Wednesday's planned signing of a landmark bipartisan housing bill, demanding Congress pass the unrelated SAVE America Act first.

    Why it matters: Trump has been angling for Congress to pass the voting bill for months, and previously threatened to withhold his signature on any other legislation until lawmakers passed it.

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    • Courtenay Brown
    13 hours ago
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    Economy
    Trumponomics 2.0 throws out old globalization playbook
    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent holding a mic and gesturing with his right hand.

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the Economic Club of New York. Photo: Krisanne Johnson/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

    In a speech in New York on Tuesday night, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that a long-running bet on cheaper goods and deeper economic integration making America richer and safer had failed.

    Why it matters: The speech set a framework for President Trump's economic policies since his second term, including tariffs and calls for reshoring.

    • But it also suggests that those policies may be part of a broader rethinking of globalization that extends well beyond one administration.
    • If that's right, investors betting on a return to the old globalization playbook may be waiting a long time.
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