For more on the political impact of the conflict with Iran and negotiations over the Republican budget bill, we are joined by our Politics Monday duo.

That's Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

Always great to see you both.

Good to be here.

So the situation with Iran, this is a fluid, fast-moving situation just this evening.

President Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran,

one that he hopes will become permanent. J.D. Vance, the vice president on Fox News, said that the U.S.

had severely degraded Iran's nuclear program, which has been a goal, Tam, of successive U.S.

presidents. We don't know what we don't know. We don't know. We don't know how Iran will respond to all of this.

But the White House will certainly spin this as a success.

Certainly. And it is interesting that J.D. Vance sort of dodged the question of whether the U.S. got the uranium supplies or where the uranium even is.

There are still a lot of questions about the success of this

mission. But President Trump has been saying that he wants peace. And he is now announcing, and still

a lot of details to work through, he is announcing a ceasefire. He is already naming the war that he says will be the 12-day

war that will be over. So President Trump has been declaring victory at every turn since Saturday

night when he said that Iran's nuclear program was totally obliterated. Again, we don't know if that's fully true, but if there is a ceasefire,

President Trump can once again say that he is the peace president. You know, he had said he was

going to be the peace candidate. He had said that, you know, no war is under him. And for several

days here, it looked like he had gone back on a campaign promise.

Now, if this holds, he can say, look, peace through strength. I did it.

To Tam's point, the president ran against involving the U.S. in foreign wars.

The administration was saying before this evening that this wasn't a war with Iran, that this was a war, to quote

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