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President Trump is back at the White House on Tuesday after leaving the G7 summit in Canada a day early to deal with Israel-Iran war.
The big decision for Trump may be whether to use America’s B-2 bombers to drop the GBU-57 bunker-busting bombs on the Fordo nuclear facility in Iran that is buried in a mountain.
Israel launched its attack on Iran last week with the goal of cutting off Iran’s capability of acquiring nuclear weapons that could be launched into Israel. That goal probably cannot be reached without the U.S. or U.S. weaponry, as Israel has neither the bombs nor the planes to fly them.
Trump on Monday night urged Tehran’s millions of residents to evacuate, saying Iran “should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign” and said the nation “can not have a nuclear weapon.”
But there are divides within the GOP and Trump’s own MAGA movement over the wisdom of becoming even more embroiled in the Israel-Iran war. Iran has warned that doing so would forever cut off the possibility of nuclear talks, and Trump campaigned against getting the U.S. into any long-running wars.
Eyes in Congress will be on that conflict, but also on the Senate, where the Finance Committee released the final piece of the GOP’s budget puzzle on Monday evening. It sheds light on its proposed cuts to Medicaid, its tax plans and more.
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