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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 620

Republican Party

Smoke and fire billow from the site of an alleged Israeli strike in southern Tehran on June 13, 2025. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
June 14, 2025, 5:13 am
Most US lawmakers offer firm support for Israeli strikes on Iran, though some critical
Isolationist GOP senator calls to oppose ‘the Neocons’ latest plan,’ while ranking Democrat on Foreign Relations Committee says Israel’s attack endangers negotiations and US personnel
By Ron Kampeas
This combination of pictures created on June 6, 2025, shows US President Donald Trump on the phone in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2017. (L) Tesla CEO Elon Musk looking at his phone during the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Nicholas Kamm and Kevin Lamarque/various sources/AFP)
June 8, 2025, 5:05 am
Trump threatens Musk with ‘serious consequences’ if he backs Democratic candidates
US president says he has no desire to speak to world’s richest man, but hasn’t thought about terminating government contracts with his various companies
By Nandita Bose
US President Donald Trump (right) shakes Elon Musk's hand in the Oval Office, Washington DC, May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
June 7, 2025, 9:55 am
Republicans urge Trump-Musk détente: ‘World a better place with bromance fully intact’
US House Speaker Mike Johnson says tax and border bill will advance without disturbance and that Tesla founder should not ‘second-guess or ever challenge’ Trump
By Seung Min Kim and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Rep. Brian Mast and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on April 28, 2025. (House Foreign Affairs Committee Majority/X)
April 29, 2025, 3:17 am
Ben Gvir meets 4 GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill, making inroads in US politics
Legislators, including chair of key House panel, meet far-right minister whom Biden considered sanctioning; ‘I think they really liked what they heard,’ Ben Gvir says after meeting
By Jacob Magid
A protester is removed as US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks during a town-hall style meeting on April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Gorgia. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
April 18, 2025, 7:36 pm
Police tase hecklers at Marjorie Taylor Greene town hall, drawing cheers from crowd
Republican US congresswoman gives full-throated defense of Trump’s 2nd administration, doesn’t take any direct questions; in Iowa, constituents rage at GOP Senator Chuck Grassley
By Agencies and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump greets Israeli hostages who were released from Gaza, during the National Republican Congressional Committee's (NRCC) "President's Dinner" at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, on April 8, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
April 9, 2025, 10:36 am
‘We owe our lives to you’: Former Gaza hostages implore Trump to help free the rest
‘You saved the lives of 33 hostages,’ Israeli-American Keith Siegel tells president at DC event; Trump says Hamas is a ‘disaster,’ what hostages endured is ‘horrible’
By ToI Staff
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer gives a television interview, at the Capitol in Washington, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
March 23, 2025, 9:55 pm
Schumer says he won’t step down as Senate Democrat leader despite pressure from party
Longtime Senate stalwart argues his move to push GOP funding bill was ‘out of pure conviction as to what a leader should do and what the right thing for America and my party was’
By Will Weissert
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, questions Postmaster General Louis DeJoy during a hearing on understanding proposed service changes, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, December 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
February 6, 2025, 1:55 am
‘I thought we voted for America first’: Trump’s Gaza plan divides fellow Republicans
Some GOP lawmakers reluctant to abandon two-state solution, send US troops to the region, while others see opportunity to ’cause some real change in the world’
By Reuters
Israeli Ambassador to US Michael Herzog, left, welcomes, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken upon his arrival at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
February 4, 2025, 2:09 pm
After finishing DC tour, an Israeli ambassador known for his discretion is ready to talk
In astonishingly uncharacteristic interview, Michael Herzog claims State Department bureaucrats withheld weapons to Israel, pans Netanyahu’s handling of Gaza war and judicial overhaul
By Jacob Magid
Rep. Randy Fine, R-Palm Bay, at an Appropriations Committee meeting, February 6, 2023, in the Knott Building at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida. (AP Photo/ Phil Sears)
January 29, 2025, 9:35 pm
US Jewish lawmaker Randy Fine, a Trump favorite, wins Florida GOP House primary
Combative pro-Israel figure will replace Michael Waltz, who left Congress to become Trump’s national security adviser
By Andrew Lapin
US House Speaker Mike Johnson takes the oath of office after being re-elected, as the House of Representatives meets to elect a speaker and convene the new 119th Congress at the Capitol in Washington, January 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
January 4, 2025, 12:40 am
Johnson re-elected as US House Speaker after Trump helps quell GOP rebellion
Louisiana lawmaker, who has angered Republican hardliners, secures razor-thin majority; Democrats unanimously re-elect minority leader Jeffries
By Bo Erickson, Richard Cowan, Katharine Jackson and Andy Sullivan
US House Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger and her panel begin work on fiscal 2024 spending bills, at the Capitol in Washington, June 14, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
December 23, 2024, 3:59 am
US lawmaker absent from office for months is found living at memory care facility
Kay Granger, 81, is reportedly tracked down to facility for dementia patients after missing all House votes since July; her office admits health issues, denies she’s in memory care
By ToI Staff
FBI Director Christopher Wray answers questions during an interview, in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis, August 21, 2024. (Abbie Parr/AP)
December 11, 2024, 11:43 pm
FBI director Wray says he will resign before Trump takes office
Ties between bureau chief and president who appointed him soured due to Russian 2016 election interference probe, further deteriorated after court-approved raid on Florida home
By Agencies
This combination of pictures created on November 02, 2024, shows former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) as he arrives on stage to speak during a campaign rally at the Sports and Expo Center at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan, November 1, 2024, and US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (R) as she arrives for a campaign rally at the Craig Ranch Amphitheater in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 31, 2024.(Roberto Schmidt and David Becker/AFP)
December 5, 2024, 11:36 am
US Jews favored Harris over Trump, but Democrats’ edge smaller than in 2020 – analyses
Several surveys conducted since Election Day find that 63% to 71% of Jewish voters backed Democrats, keeping in line with historical preference for party
By Ron Kampeas
US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with House Republicans at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Washington, DC on November 13, 2024. (Allison ROBBERT / POOL / AFP)
November 14, 2024, 10:46 am
After presidency and Senate, Republicans complete US election sweep by securing House
Facing a conservative Supreme Court and a party increasingly united behind Trump, Democrats will be almost powerless to stop president-elect’s far-reaching policy plans
By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO
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