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Nicole Fallert here, bringing you the news to know on Thursday, from voices raised in a closed-door meeting with the president.
President Donald Trump battled with Senate Republicans during a closed-door meeting yesterday on Capitol Hill, just hours after he abruptly canceled signing a landmark housing affordability legislation.
Voices were raised and tempers ran high, dividing GOP lawmakers over the Iran war and a major election reform bill called the SAVE America Act, multiple attendees told reporters. Before the sit-down, Trump told lawmakers the SAVE America Act is more important than the bipartisan housing bill.
Trump told reporters after his Senate meeting that their talk went “great.” Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, said he lost his temper with the president over the Iran war.
“You have not told the American people what is going on,” Cassidy said he told Trump.
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World
Early Thursday, acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez warned that the death toll is expected to climb as rescuers continue searching through the rubble after a massive earthquake slammed Venezuela.
Health & Wellness
Since surviving a murder-suicide in 2018, Amedy Dewey endured nearly 40 surgeries. Dewey’s story was documented in a five-part series from the Detroit Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network. Read the first chapter here.
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