Trump emerges from tense meeting with GOP senators

President Trump emerged from his closed-door meeting with Republican senators on Capitol Hill touting party unity, but noted he didn't like some members of the conference.

"We had a really great meeting, and we're very proud of the party," he told reporters. "We like our leader, we like everybody, really, in the room. I don't like a few people, but that's okay. I think you know who they are."

Asked whom he was referring to, the president said, "I'll give you that information someday. But for the most part, we have a really unified party."

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who recently lost his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, got into a shouting match with the president over the Iran war, which he called a "blunder."

"I stood and said, 'You have not told the American people what's going on. It's lasted four months, our original objectives have not been achieved, and I want to know what's going on,'" Sen. Cassidy told reporters afterward, admitting he "lost [his] temper."

The Louisiana Republican was one of four GOP senators to vote to prevent further U.S. military action against Iran on Tuesday, joining with nearly all Democrats on the war powers resolution.

President Trump lashed out at those senators after the vote, calling them "losers."

"Four Republican Losers voted with the Dumocrats, and Iran asked my people, 'what does that all mean?' These Senators have just made my job more difficult, but I will get it done, one way or the other, because I always get it done!" he wrote on Truth Social.

Republican senators have grown increasingly frustrated with the president in recent months, including over the filibuster, SAVE America Act, "anti-weaponization" fund and director of national intelligence post.

Hours before the president was set to arrive on Capitol Hill, he announced he was canceling a bill signing ceremony for a bipartisan housing bill that lawmakers in both parties consider a high priority.

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