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Bill Cassidy, the Republican senator from Louisiana who is being ousted from his position after Donald Trump successfully backed a challenger in May\u2019s primary, has accused the US president of treating Congress as \u201cmerely an appendage\u201d in his handling of the Iran war.<\/p>\n
In an interview on Sunday with CBS News\u2019s Face the Nation, the out-going Cassidy explained his recent face-to-face row with Trump over the president\u2019s failure to brief Congress on the prosecution of the hostilities with Tehran. In a fleetingly rare instance of a Republican politician directly standing up to Trump, Cassidy let rip at a Capitol Hill lunch over the senator\u2019s support for a war powers resolution that was a symbolic rebuke to the White House.<\/p>\n
After Trump \u201cberated\u201d Cassidy and three other Republican senators who had voted for the resolution, Cassidy let his \u201cIrish temper\u201d get the best of him, he told the political talk show. \u201cI raised my volume to match his,\u201d he said, echoing remarks he had recently made.<\/p>\n
The cause of his anger, Cassidy said, was that under the separation of powers laid out in the US constitution, Congress had to be briefed. The US\u2019s founding fathers had designed the arrangement \u201cso that there would not be too powerful of an institution of a presidency\u201d and so that it would \u201creflect all of the American people, not just the will of one person\u201d.<\/p>\n
Set against that founding vision, Cassidy accused Trump of acting \u201cas if Congress is merely an appendage, and frankly, sometimes Congress acts like it\u2019s an appendage\u201d.<\/p>\n
The senator added that he had \u201caccomplished the mission\u201d in that following the blazing row Trump conceded and granted him a briefing on the war from Vice-President JD Vance and special envoy Steve Witkoff. Having received that audience, Cassidy dropped his support for the war powers resolution.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, Cassidy\u2019s plain spoken comments to Face the Nation indicate that the senator remains emboldened having effectively been chucked out of the Senate seat he has occupied since 2015. On Saturday, Julia Letlow, the challenger Trump backed in May\u2019s Republican primary, won a runoff<\/a> election and is now in pole position to replace Cassidy in November\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n Cassidy, who demonstrated his independent streak when he voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges over his supporters\u2019 US Capitol attack on 6 January 2021, had strong words over how the president\u2019s second term was going. He questioned Trump\u2019s domestic priority of passing the Save America Act that would introduce new federal voting restrictions, saying that he should be focused instead on \u201chow we make life more affordable for the average American\u201d.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cIf I were president, I\u2019d be focused on what a family around the kitchen table is looking at as they go through their bills. \u2026 How do you make their life better?\u201d<\/p>\n Cassidy also made threatening noises over the confirmation process for the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, in which the senator is likely to wield a key vote. He has been among a group of Republican senators who have vented fury at justice department attempts to set up a $1.8bn so-called \u201cweaponization fund\u201d to pay Trump\u2019s allies \u2013 as well as a move to permanently shield the president and his family from IRS audits.<\/p>\n \u201cI absolutely object to that,\u201d Cassidy told CBS News. \u201cLeaders should be held to a higher standard, not a different standard. They should be more accountable \u2026 I would object to anything that goes against the spirit of that, and making one person above the law is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bill Cassidy, the Republican senator from Louisiana who is being ousted from his position after Donald Trump successfully backed a challenger in May\u2019s primary, has accused the US president of treating Congress as \u201cmerely an appendage\u201d in his handling of the Iran war. 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