Lunch with ‘mad as a murder hornet’ Trump and US Senate GOP fails to heal divisions

By: Jennifer Shutt, Ariana Figueroa, Shauneen Miranda

Outlets: DC Bureau (States Newsroom)

Published: June 24, 2026

Words: 1,173

Last Updated: 4 weeks, 1 day ago

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans walked into a lunch with the president on Wednesday looking for ways to unify, but they left the closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill as fractured as ever about policy goals.

President Donald Trump said after the huddle that he was “very proud of the party” but didn’t offer any concrete steps forward amid deep divisions on a nationwide voter identification law or other issues that don’t yet have enough GOP …

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