Trump celebrates ‘big, beautiful bill’ despite Senate parliamentarian rejecting key elements – as it happened

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By taking military action, Trump created the conditions to end the war, decimating, obliterating Iran's nuclear capabilities", Hegseth says, contrary to early US intelligence findings reported yesterday that suggested US strikes on Iran's nuclear sites did not destroy two of the sites and only set program back by months.

Hegseth starts off by praising Trump's game-changing" and historic" achievement in getting most of the Nato allies to raise the defense spending to 5%.