{"id":1886,"date":"2026-02-11T12:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:40:38","slug":"live-updates-trump-returns-to-washington-d-c-for-meetings-with-republican-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1886","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump returns to Washington D.C. for meetings with Republican allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/240613115803-01-donald-trump-dc-visit-061324-hp-video.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" data-reorderable-component=\"content\">\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-e2b05b7e1da293182cb28a4a6671a8d6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Florida Sen. Marco Rubio characterized the meeting with former President Donald Trump as \u201cgetting the team back together\u201d and providing the state of the former president\u2019s campaign.\u00a0\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-c2dcb28488e95d3d3015a8df97db8130@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cOptimism, but a lot of work to be done,\u201d Rubio said.\u00a0\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-0c8c57069f7e2cbbdf5179bf0bed35f6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It was a \u201cterrific meeting,\u201d Texas Sen.\u00a0Ted\u00a0Cruz said. \u201cPresident Trump was in very good spirits, focused on winning back the White House.\u201d\u00a0\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-d282a59e99c29b4ba570879dbe0a47b1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty said the meeting was \u201cgood.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-d077469b58847a3fa8958d3faf8848e2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville said the mood in the room was \u201cunification, leadership,\u201d which he said was \u201cfew and far between up here.\u201d\u00a0\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-f07dc9579990b13213024a13f3d7d270@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy said he was interested to see how the Trump press conference went, as he didn\u2019t catch it.\u00a0\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-dd96ed9f7f99555768e2dbba62c52d57@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI was a point for the president to connect with the people who are in this city,\u201d Cassidy said.\u00a0\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-d891e433e400f4eb7b828b0c2a90c290@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Asked whether there was any talk about Trump\u2019s potential choice for vice president, Rubio let out a laugh and said no.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-0c421ffb00cd99b4f503e465a435b4e4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            When asked how the party can be united when some senior Republicans had previously blamed Trump for the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio said:\u00a0\u201cNo real Republican with any credibility in the party is still blaming him.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-ca45d070a6da35375ac737bd8cc9e5fa@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cHe expressed frustration over the recent trial, you can imagine, and justifiably in my view,\u201d Texas Sen. John Cornyn\u00a0said. He said Trump did not bring up January 6.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-washington-dc-06-13-24\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Sen. Marco Rubio characterized the meeting with former President Donald Trump as \u201cgetting the team back together\u201d and providing the state of the former president\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}