Trump to meet House speaker in attempt to break legislative gridlock – US politics live

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A dramatic day is in store in Washington DC as Donald Trump heads for a crucial meeting with Mike Johnson, the House speaker, in an attempt to break a legislative gridlock as huge political fireworks have detonated on Capitol Hill far ahead of anything resembling a Fourth of July celebration.

The US Senate abruptly went on recess for two weeks yesterday after a stormy lunch which the US president, who had not visited for a long time, attended. It descended into a shouting match over the US-Israel war on Iran and tests of loyalty. This followed Trump suddenly scrapping the signing of a pivotal bipartisan housing bill hours earlier. Trump’s demands that the Senate change the rules to pass his highly-controversial voter ID bill has led to a gulf between the White House and the upper chamber.

Johnson will attempt to get a reluctant House moving on Trump’s agenda today as a sop. A difficult task.

Here’s what else is happening:

• Maryland’s Democratic US Senator Chris Van Hollen is endorsing the progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate primary, a split with Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, the Associated Press reports as an exclusive.

• The US supreme court is expected to issue opinions at 10am ET and most of the big cases have not yet been ruled upon. We await immigration and finance-related opinions in particular.

• Huge focus on the Hill where the House speaker, Mike Johnson, meets with Trump at 2pm, with both hoping the House will be persuaded to take a vote and end a rebellion from within the right wing of the Republican caucus over the Save Act to tighten up on who can vote in US elections.

• Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana got into a shouting match with Trump at the Senate lunch on Wednesday after Trump admonished four senators, including him, for backing a resolution to rein in the war in the Middle East. Kennedy reportedly responded: “You have not told the American people what’s going on” with the war, adding afterwards to reporters: “It was supposed to last four weeks. It’s lasted four months,” according to Politico.