President Donald Trump on Sunday pushed Republicans to get behind his taxation bill that will fund his agenda as the self-imposed Fourth of July deadline approaches.
“Great unity in the Republican Party, perhaps unity like we have never seen before. Now let’s get the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill done,” Trump wrote on social media.
Trump addressed the nation on Saturday night after the U.S. carried out airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facility, which he called "a spectacular military success."
After Iran strike, Trump sets sights on his ‘big, beautiful bill’
Following the U.S. military strike on Iran, Trump publicly praised what he called "great unity" within the Republican Party and shifted his focus to the administration's next legislative priority.
“Great unity in the Republican Party, perhaps unity like we have never seen before. Now let’s get the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill done,” Trump wrote on social media. “Our Country is doing GREAT. MAGA!”
President Donald Trump and Vice Presiden JD Vance in the Situation Room, at the White House in Washington, June 21, 2025.
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The post was the president’s first public comment since his address to the nation about the Iran attack on Saturday evening. The administration is aiming to pass the president's tax legislation ahead of the self-imposed July Fourth deadline.
-ABC News’ Kelsey Walsh
Jun 21, 2025, 2:17 PM EDT
B-2 stealth bombers head for Guam: Sources
Multiple B-2 stealth bombers were headed to Guam Saturday, two sources familiar with their movements told ABC News Saturday.
In this July 4, 2020, file photo, a U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber is flanked by 4 U.S. Marine Corps F-35 fighters during a flyover of military aircraft down the Hudson River and New York Harbor.
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At this point, the aircraft have no orders beyond that.
-ABC News' Luis Martinez and Katherine Faulders
Jun 21, 2025, 11:30 AM EDT
Bannon playing an outsized role in administration's Iran decision: Sources
By the time Trump and MAGA podcaster Steve Bannon sat down for lunch on Thursday, the president had already approved a plan on how the U.S. might attack an Iranian nuclear facility, sources with knowledge of the meeting told ABC News.
Bannon, who had already spoken with Trump by phone ahead of their lunch, thought all of it was a bad idea, according to several people close to him.
Sources say he arrived at the White House for his previously scheduled lunch with Trump armed with specific talking points: Israeli intelligence can’t be trusted, he planned to say, and the bunker-buster bomb might not work as planned.
The precise risk to the U.S. troops in the Middle East, particularly the 2,500 in Iraq, also wasn’t clear if Iran retaliated, he would add.
A White House official insists that by the time Trump sat down with Bannon for lunch the president had already made a decision to hold off on a strike against Iran.
-ABC News' Anne Flaherty, Jonathan Karl, Shannon K. Kingston and Luis Martinez
Jun 21, 2025, 9:36 AM EDT
Trump rebuke of Gabbard is 'shocking,' Sen. Reed says
Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island told ABC News that President Donald Trump's rebuke of his own intelligence chief is "shocking" and suggested Trump is disavowing his intelligence community for political reasons.
"It's shocking to me that the president would dismiss his intelligence chief, who he picked," Reed, a Democrat who is a ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told ABC News.
"This might not be a question of intelligence. This might be a question of political positioning, regardless of the intelligence," Reed said.
Weeks ago, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard testified that the intelligence community continues to assess "Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003."
On Friday, Trump said both Gabbard and his intelligence community are flat out "wrong."
In this Jan. 30, 2025, file photo, Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, D.C.
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Trump is "in a position now where he's contemplating an attack against Iran, and he has to have the conclusion that they do in fact have a nuclear – or the capacity to develop a nuclear weapon very quickly and the intent to do so – so that I think is prompting him to reject the intelligence community's conclusions," Reed said.
Reed added that if Gabbard made a false statement in her testimony, "there would be an obligation to correct the record immediately, not just in the wake of this activity by the Israelis to suddenly conclude that she was totally wrong."
