WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) got into a shouting match during a lunch meeting Wednesday over the\u00a0US\u00a0war with Iran, according to sources and lawmakers who were in attendance.<\/p>\n
GOP senators described Trump as being \u201cmad as a murder hornet\u201d and raising his voice at the Louisiana Republican for\u00a0joining three other Republicans in a vote limiting his wartime authority.<\/a><\/p>\n Cassidy \u2014 who later quipped that the talks went \u201cswimmingly\u201d \u2014 called the president \u201cmy brother\u201d several\u00a0times\u00a0during the heated exchange\u00a0to lower tensions, Senate GOP sources said.\u00a0The president\u00a0spat back\u00a0that Cassidy wasn\u2019t his brother and told him to sit down,\u00a0per CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n President Trump speaks with the press while walking with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), to the Senate Republican Steering Committee lunch at the US Capitol, in Washington, DC on June 24, 2026. REUTERS<\/p>\n \u201c[Trump]\u00a0did not particularly care for my comments, raised his voice, I lost my temper,\u201d Cassidy later recounted to\u00a0reporters<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s the Irish in me.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut again I matched his tone and his volume, and it went back and forth,\u201d he further explained. \u201cSo I sat down and tried to de-escalate. I guess my point is,\u00a0though,\u00a0that the American people need to know more than we are being told. The Senate needs to know.\u201d<\/p>\n Cassidy lost his reelection to the Senate this year<\/a>, when Trump backed his primary opponent in Louisiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) speaking to reporters after leaving the Capitol Hill meeting with Trump. REUTERS<\/p>\n \u201cWe had a really great meeting, and we\u2019re very proud of the party. We like our leader. We like everybody.\u00a0Really,\u00a0in the room, we don\u2019t like a few people, but that\u2019s okay,\u201d Trump told reporters afterward, refraining from naming names.\u00a0\u201cFor the most part, we had a really well unified party.\u201d<\/p>\n Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), sarcastically told reporters the exchange was \u201cvery pleasant\u201d before describing how Trump and Cassidy\u00a0butted heads.<\/p>\n \u201cVery much like a hospital board meeting when a bunch of doctors are yelling at each other, but at the end of the day, we\u2019ll figure out a way to get along,\u201d said Marshall, a practicing OB\/GYN before entering politics. \u201cVoices were raised. \u2026 I think the\u00a0vote yesterday on the War Powers Act, the president\u2019s very disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c[The administration is] trying to negotiate that\u00a0[Iran deal], and they feel like that vote from Republicans chopped their legs out from under them,\u201d added the Kansas Republican.<\/p>\n \u201cThe president was mad\u00a0as a murder hornet about the War Powers vote,\u201d Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) also said.<\/p>\n Congressional actions disapproving of the Iran war were going to \u201cundermine the negotiators\u201d working\u00a0on\u00a0terms of a peace agreement, Marshall said.<\/p>\n Cassidy claimed the talks with Trump went \u201cswimmingly\u201d despite reports of the two getting into a shouting match. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n Tensions between Trump and the Senate GOP flared long before Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who\u00a0chairs the Senate Republican Steering Committee, invited him to a caucus lunch.<\/p>\n Before the War Powers Act vote<\/a>,\u00a0Trump had been incensed by the Senate\u2019s inability to\u00a0wrangle through\u00a0the\u00a0Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE) America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote and a bunch of conservative wishlist items.\u00a0<\/p>\n