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Happening Now: Trump, First Lady Host White House Congressional Picnic
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31:21Now PlayingPresident Trump and first lady Melania Trump will host the annual congressional picnic on the White House’s South Lawn on Thursday evening.
The informal gathering brings in members of the executive and legislative branches, along with their families, in a celebration across party lines.
Tension around Trump’s “big, beautiful” spending package, however, threatened to upend the event after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) claimed they were uninvited to the event because of their apprehension to the GOP megabill.
The president on Thursday said Paul was in fact invited, calling him the “toughest vote in the history of the U.S. Senate” and said he would give him some time to win him over. He did not respond to Massie’s claims.
The event is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. EDT.
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