Trump, GOP Shouting Match
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🗓️ 24 June 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
President Trump has one clear talent: pissing off his purported allies, like when he was supposed to sign a big bipartisan housing bill. Republicans were hoping to campaign on the legislation and show that they care about the number one concern of American voters: the high cost of living. But Donald Trump doesn't care. Wednesday morning, he abruptly canceled the signing ceremony without telling Republican members of Congress, declaring he won't sign the bill until Congress passes the SAVE America Act. This massive federal elections bill would require Americans to show their passport or birth certificate to vote. To talk more about how Trump seems determined to derail Congress, even when it hurts his own party, we spoke with Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen.
And in headlines, the U.S. military reinstates flu shot requirements for recruits after an outbreak at a Texas Air Force base, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won big in Tuesday’s primary, and a federal judge permanently bars the Trump administration from implementing most of Trump’s first executive order on elections.
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| 0:00.0 | Senate Republican leaders are not only scratching their heads, they're, you know, probably |
| 0:04.7 | willing to jump out of the balconies around here, because every time they think maybe there'll |
| 0:12.5 | be something positive coming out of the White House, like the plan today to sign the Road to Housing |
| 0:18.3 | Act, the president blows it up. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day. |
| 0:33.3 | Look, today has already been a complete mess in a lot of ways. |
| 0:37.4 | So I'd like to introduce you to Mexican national team supporter Merlin the Duck. |
| 0:42.5 | He has custom duck socks and a mini Mexico soccer jersey. |
| 0:46.6 | Merlin the Duck has been declared Mexico's World Cup ambassador. |
| 0:50.1 | On Monday, he even got to meet Mexican president, Claudia Scheinbaum. |
| 0:54.5 | This is, I regret to inform you, the high point of today's news. |
| 0:59.8 | On today's show, we talk to Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen |
| 1:03.7 | about how President Donald Trump has become the Republican lawmakers' biggest problem. |
| 1:08.2 | Before we get into all that, here's what we're following today, Wednesday, |
| 1:12.2 | June 24th. The war is going very well. As you know, we're winning by a lot. Iran is making very |
| 1:20.9 | big concessions. We'll see what happens, but it's been very, very powerful. It's going very, very well. |
| 1:29.2 | Sure. President Trump spoke to reporters of the Capitol today ahead of his lunch with Senate |
| 1:33.7 | Republicans, and he was quite optimistic about that war he started. |
| 1:38.4 | But I wonder if the American people feel the same way. |
| 1:41.1 | Well, according to a new Reuters-Ipsos poll, only one in four Americans think |
| 1:45.5 | that the war with Iran was worth its costs. Yikes. The poll also found that the war is dragging |
| 1:51.7 | down Trump's approval rating, which is back at 34%. And that's not all. Around 63% of respondents |
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