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The Daily Punch

Trump drags GOP through Iran war

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

News, Politics, Government

4.3707 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump is dragging Republicans through the Iran war, with his recent rhetoric presenting the conference with a political mess. Punchbowl News Deputy Congressional Editor Robert O’Shaughnessy discusses the latest. Plus, reconciliation is back — but a few things could go wrong.  Punchbowl News is on YouTube⁠. ⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our channel today to see all the new ways⁠⁠ ⁠we’re investing in video.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at punchbowl.news.⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Brought to you by Punch Bowl News. It is Monday, April 6th, 2026. Here are your top stories of the morning. Number one, Trump drags the GOP

0:56.9

through the Iran War. Number two, how reconciliation could go wrong. And number three, what House

1:03.3

Democrats are up to. So kicking it off today, we're in the second week of congressional recess and

1:08.7

Republican leadership in both chambers are lucky that Congress is out

1:12.1

of town this week. They would have to tackle plenty of hard questions as the Department of Homeland

1:16.5

Security enters its 51st day of being shut down. That, by the way, is the longest for any

1:22.1

government agency ever. House GOP leaders aren't planning to come back into session until next week

1:27.4

for action on a

1:28.5

Senate-passed bill that would fund all of DHS except ICE and customs and border protection. President

1:34.2

Trump issued an executive order on Friday paying all DHS employees that he hadn't done earlier

1:39.6

with his TSA emergency order earlier that week. This has eased a little bit of pressure among

1:45.2

Republicans to get a long-term solution, but nonetheless they still need to come to one.

1:50.1

Speaking of Trump, he's been pretty difficult to understand, especially on the Iran war.

1:55.6

We wrote this wording that it's like trying to nail Jello to a wall. He's been all over the

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place on every issue,

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