Republican aims to schedule Markwayne Mullin confirmation hearing next week after Kristi Noem’s ouster – US politics live

We’re wrapping up our live coverage for the day. We’ll be back on Wednesday. Here is a summary of today’s developments:

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  The Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, has warned that Tuesday would be the “most intense” day of US strikes yet, even as he blamed Iran for civilian casualties by claiming its forces were firing missiles from schools and hospitals. Speaking alongside Gen Dan Caine, the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, Hegseth alleged Iran was deliberately firing missiles from schools and hospitals, describing the country’s leadership as “desperate and scrambling like the terrorist cowards they are”. More here.

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  The minelayers near the strait of Hormuz were among multiple Iranian vessels taken out by US forces today, according to a post by the US Central Command. In a post on X, the military published unclassified footage of some of the vessels after Donald Trump warned Iran against laying mines in the critical waterway.

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  Republican former prosecutor Clay Fuller and retired army general Shawn Harris, a Democrat, will head to a run-off after they came out ahead in a special election Tuesday to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress. The election for the state’s 14th congressional district has been seen as a test of Donald Trump’s sway and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in a deep-red pocket of north-west Georgia. More here.

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  Mike Johnson, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, declined to condemn Republican lawmakers who recently made Islamophobic comments, saying only that he had spoken to them about their “tone”. Democrats and groups advocating religious tolerance have decried the statements from congressmen Andy Ogles of Tennessee and Randy Fine of Florida, with the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, calling on Johnson to discipline the latter. More here.

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  Donald Trump said that America First Refining plans to open a new oil refinery in Brownsville, Texas, as part of a $300b deal. “THE BIGGEST IN US HISTORY, A MASSIVE WIN for American Workers, Energy, and the GREAT People of South Texas! Thank you to our partners in India, and their largest privately held Energy Company, Reliance, for this tremendous Investment,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday.

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  Donald Trump has appointed Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, to a key advisory board of the US Air Force Academy. The 37-year-old joins a number of other loyalists to the president on the 16-member panel of the academy’s board of visitors, which according to its website “inquires into the morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods and other matters” of the Colorado Springs military training facility. More here.

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Republican former prosecutor Clay Fuller and retired army general Shawn Harris, a Democrat, will head to a run-off after they came out ahead in a special election Tuesday to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress.

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The election for the state’s 14th congressional district has been seen as a test of Donald Trump’s sway and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in a deep-red pocket of north-west Georgia.

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Fuller has Trump’s endorsement and had raised more than $1m leading into voting Tuesday, but Harris, who faced Greene two years ago, has raised more than four times as much. Even though four Republican candidates dropped out before the election, the Republican field was fractured among more than a dozen candidates, including former state senator Colton Moore, a combative agitator to the right of most Republican legislators in Georgia.

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Read the full story here:

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Donald Trump said that America First Refining plans to open a new oil refinery in Brownsville, Texas, as part of a $300b deal.

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“THE BIGGEST IN US HISTORY, A MASSIVE WIN for American Workers, Energy, and the GREAT People of South Texas! Thank you to our partners in India, and their largest privately held Energy Company, Reliance, for this tremendous Investment,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday.

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Trump claimed that the new refinery will “strengthen” the US national security, “fuel” the US markets, and deliver “Billions of Dollars in Economic impact.”

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Trump also said the oil refinery, which he said is the first new US oil refinery in 50 years, would be the “CLEANEST REFINERY IN THE WORLD,” bringing “THOUSANDS” of new jobs to the area.

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Democratic senator Chris Murphy said that, after attending a two-hour classified briefing on the US-Iran war today, the strategy against Iran seems “incoherent” and unlikely “to achieve any of our stated objectives.”

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“We have still not yet heard a full explanation as to why this is necessary,” he said in an interview with MS NOW. “This is a disaster of epic proportions. It’s already getting Americans killed. It’s driving up prices here at home.”

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Murphy condemned the president for failing to conduct congressional hearings and seek authorization for the war.

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“This has just been a debacle, a 10-day debacle, and we’re going to use whatever leverage we have in the Senate to try to prompt those hearings, to try to prompt that vote, and to get this administration to start paying attention to the Constitution,” he said.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren condemned the Trump administration’s handling of the war with Iran, questioning the administration’s funding priorities.

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“Here we are well into the second week, and it is still the case that the Trump administration cannot explain the reasons that we entered this war, the goals we’re trying to accomplish and the methods for doing that,” Warren told reporters on Tuesday. “The one part that seems clear is that while there is no money for 15 million Americans who lost their health care, there’s a billion dollars a day to spend on bombing Iran.”

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“I’m very worried about how long this will drag on. We are hearing no logical estimates about when it will be over,” she added. “This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war supported by this country, and this is not a war that makes us safer.”

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Donald Trump said on Tuesday the US hit “10 inactive mine laying boats and/or ships” within the last few hours, according to a post on Truth Social.

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“I am pleased to report that within the last few hours, we have hit, and completely destroyed, 10 inactive mine laying boats and/or ships, with more to follow!,” he posted.

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  The Pentagon confirmed that since the beginning of the US-Israel war on Iran, approximately 140 US service members have been wounded. “The vast majority of these injuries have been minor, and 108 service members have already returned to duty,” said Department of Defense spokesperson Sean Parnell.

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  During a White House press briefing, Karoline Leavitt said that the recent hike in gas prices since the onset of the war is “temporary” and assured a rapid price drop. The press secretary also noted that the US military is “drawing up additional options” following Donald Trump’s directive to continue keeping the strait of Hormuz open. This comes after Trump’s threat to hit Iran “twenty times harder” if the regime does anything to prevent the flow of oil through the crucial waterway.

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  At a Pentagon press conference, defense secretary Pete Hegseth said that Tuesday will be the “most intense day of strikes inside Iran”. He did not give any guidance on when the military action against Iran might end. “We do so on our timeline and at our choosing,” he added. Hegseth also insisted that America is “winning” the war, and assured those watching that military action was not endless. “This is not 2003…It’s not protracted. We’re not allowing mission creep,” he told reporters.

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  At the House Republican policy conference in Doral, Florida, speaker Mike Johnson refused to condemn congressman Andy Ogles’ Islamophobic comments on social media. The GOP lawmaker, who represents Tennessee’s fifth congressional district, wrote that “Muslims don’t belong in America” in a post on X this week. Today, reporters pressed Johnson for his response. The speaker said that the “demand to impose Sharia law” is a “real issue” in an attempt to justify Ogles’ comments. “That’s the language that people use, it’s a different language than I would use,” he said.

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  In the wake of Donald Trump telling CBS News that the US-Israel war on Iran could end “very soon”, oil prices rebounded on Tuesday. Brent crude has now slipped just below $90 a barrel, down 9.9% to $89.22. This comes after they surged past $100 a barrel on Monday morning, the highest price in four years.

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The Pentagon confirmed that since the beginning of the US-Israel war on Iran, approximately 140 US service members have been wounded.

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“The vast majority of these injuries have been minor, and 108 service members have already returned to duty,” said Sean Parnell, chief spokesperson for the Department of Defense.

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“Eight service members remain listed as severely injured and are receiving the highest level of medical care.”

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Earlier, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she couldn’t confirm the exact number of those injured, but knew it was “within that ballpark”.

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The United States has asked Israel to halt strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure, Axios reports, citing three sources familiar with the matter, marking the first time the US has reined in its ally since they went to war 11 days ago.

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Washington sent the message at a senior political level and to IDF chief of staff Eyal Zamir, Axios reports, citing an Israeli official.

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Per Axios’s report, the Trump administration gave three reasons for the request, including a goal to cooperate with Iran’s oil ‌sector after the war (as Trump has done with Venezuela); fears that the ⁠strikes would harm the ​Iranian public; and concerns that it could trigger ​massive Iranian retaliatory attacks on energy infrastructure across Gulf states.

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It comes after an Israeli bombing of fuel storage facilities blanketed Tehran – a city home to some 10 million people – in toxic black smoke and acid rain over the weekend, raising urgent health warnings for ordinary Iranians.

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Iran has appealed to to the United Nations to condemn the US and Israel for a “manifest environmental crime”.

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Karoline Leavitt was also just asked why Trump’s energy secretary earlier claimed that the US Navy had escorted an oil tanker through the strait of Hormuz, before deleting the X post a few minutes later.

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She replied:

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I know the post was taken down pretty quickly, and I can confirm that the US Navy has not escorted a tanker or a vessel at this time, though of course that’s an option the president has said he will absolutely utilize if and when necessary at the appropriate time.

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The press secretary used her opening remarks to assuage anxiety around the hike in prices at the pump that many Americans have seen in the past week.

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The recent increase in oil and gas prices is temporary, and this operation will result in lower gas prices in the long term. Once the national security objectives of Operation epic fury are fully achieved, Americans will see oil and gas prices drop rapidly, potentially even lower than they were prior to the start of the operation.

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Leavitt noted today that the president and his energy team are closely watching the markets, when it comes the price of oil which has surged and dropped in recent days.

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The press secretary noted that the US military is “drawing up additional options” following Donald Trump’s directive to continue keeping the strait of Hormuz open. “I will not broadcast what those options look like, but just know the president is not afraid to use them,” Leavitt said.

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At the House Republican policy conference in Doral, Florida, speaker Mike Johnson refused to condemn congressman Andy Ogles’ Islamophobic posts on social media.

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A reminder that the GOP lawmaker, who represents Tennessee’s fifth congressional district, wrote on X that “Muslims don’t belong in America”. Ogles has repeatedly denigrated the Muslim faith, insisting that it is “incompatible” with American values. His Islamophobic espousals have manifested in a piece of proposed legislation that would ban immigration from several Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, Syria and Libya.

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On Tuesday, reporters pressed Johnson for his response to Ogles’ comments. “There is a lot of energy in the country, and a lot of popular sentiment that the demand to impose Sharia law in America is a serious problem,” he said in a attempt to justify Ogles’ posts. “That what animates this. That’s the language that people use, it’s a different language than I would use.”

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He went on to say, without providing any evidence, that the imposition of Sharia law – the legal system of Islam that is enforced to varying degrees of severity across Muslim-majority countries – is a “real issue”.

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“When you seek to come to a country and not assimilate…that is the conflict,” Johnson added. “It is not about people as Muslims, it’s about those who seek to impose a belief system that is in direct conflict with the constitution.”

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Russia has denied sharing intelligence with Iran on US military assets in the Middle East, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff has said today.

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Speaking to CNBC, Witkoff said the denial came during a phone call that Donald Trump had with Russian president Vladimir Putin yesterday, as well as in a separate call that he held earlier on Monday with Jared Kushner and Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov.

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Trump didn’t divulge any details about his call with Putin yesterday, saying only that it was “very good” and that the Russian president “wants to be helpful on Iran”. On the Russian side, Ushakov said the conversation was “frank” and “business-like”.

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It follows reports on Friday that Moscow was providing Tehran with targeting information that included locations and movements of US warships and aircraft in the region.

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“Yesterday on the call with the president, the Russians said that they have not been sharing,” Witkoff said when asked if Washington thought Moscow had shared intelligence about the location of US military assets with Tehran.

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He went on: “We can take them at their word. But they did say that. And yesterday morning, independently, Jared and I had a call with Ushakov who reiterated the same.”

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He added: “That’s a better question for the intel people, but let’s hope that they’re not sharing.”

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Multiple outlets are reporting that the US military used $5.6bn in munitions during the first two days of strikes against Iran, according to an assessment the Pentagon provided to congressional committees on Monday.

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Members of Congress, who may soon have to approve additional funding for the war, have expressed concern about how quickly the conflict is burning through US military stocks – including long-range precision guided munitions that were used heavily in the first few days of the war – at a time when the defense industry was already struggling to keep up with demand.

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There are also concerns that the US and its allies are expending a significant number of air defense munitions to shoot down incoming Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, of which Tehran has a large arsenal.

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Indeed Donald Trump met with leading US weapons manufacturers at the White House on Friday – and said they had agreed to “quadruple Production of ‘Exquisite Class’ Weaponry” – as the Pentagon worked to replenish supplies.

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His administration has not provided a public assessment of the cost of the conflict it launched on 28 February alongside Israel.

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Lawmakers have clamored for more information, including public testimony from officials about issues including how the conflict might affect the US military’s readiness to defend the country.

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Arizona Democratic senator Mark Kelly told CNN that senators would continue to ask briefers behind closed doors today about the per-day cost of the conflict to the US.

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Several congressional aides have told Reuters and CNN that they expect the White House to soon submit a request to Congress for additional funding to produce more munitions for the war. Per Reuters, some officials have said the request could be for $50bn, but others have said that estimate seems low.

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Rand Paul, the top Republican on the Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee, told reporters that he’s hoping to schedule Markwayne Mullin’s confirmation hearing to take over as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary for Wednesday 18 March.

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A reminder that Mullin, a Republican senator from Oklahoma, was tapped by Donald Trump to lead the DHS after the president ousted Kristi Noem from the role. Her 13-month tenure had been roiled with controversy, most recently as immigration crackdowns across the country saw the fatal shootings of two US citizens.

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Just before Noem was removed as DHS secretary she spent two days on Capitol Hill facing questions and criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. This included having to defend a $220m advertising contract that prominently featured her own image. Noem, for her part, claimed the president approved the campaign, despite the White House publicly denying any sign-off.

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When it comes to the timeline of Operation Epic Fury, Pete Hegseth underscored that the military action against Iran is “not endless”.

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“It’s not protracted. We’re not allowing mission creep,” the defense secretary added.

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Hegseth said that continues to defer to Donald Trump when it comes to communicating the success of the operation.

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He [the president] gets to control the throttle. He’s the one deciding. He’s the one elected on behalf of the American people … so it’s not for me to posit whether it’s the beginning, the middle or the end, that’s his.

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During his opening remarks Hegseth said that the mullahs know that their military is being “systematically degraded” and that Iran “stands alone and is badly losing”.

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By contrast, he noted that America is “winning” and is executing its objectives to destroy its missiles, its navy and “permanently deny Iran nuclear weapons forever”.

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Hegseth added that “this is not 2003, and it is not endless nation-building” in an attempt to put daylight between this bombing campaign and the US’s previous forays into Middle Eastern conflict.

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At a Pentagon press conference, defense secretary Pete Hegseth did not give any guidance on when the military action against Iran might end. “We do so on our timeline and at our choosing,” he said.

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In recent days, Donald Trump has been unclear about the length of the operation. Last week he said that it would probably take at least four weeks, but on Monday the president said the US is making “major strides toward completing our military objective” and even added that “we’re getting close to finishing”.

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At the Department of Defense, Hegseth described that today “will be, yet again, our most intense day of strikes inside Iran – the most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes.”

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Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth will be giving a press conference, with chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Dan Caine, shortly.

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The presser is due to begin at 8am ET and will update on the latest from Trump’s war on Iran.

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You can follow any news lines that emerge from it in our Middle East live blog here:

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The MIT professor who has been appointed by Robert F Kennedy Jr to review the safety of Covid-19 vaccines has failed to meet basic scientific standards in his own research on the topic, according to more than a dozen scientists and public health experts.

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Retsef Levi, an operations management professor, is a member of the US health department’s vaccine advisory committee (ACIP) which is meeting later this month and – many experts fear – could seek to rollback recommendations on who should receive Covid-19 vaccines.

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Levi, who holds Israeli and American citizenship, has claimed that Covid-19 vaccines are the “most failing medical product in the history of medical products”, despite a body of research that has shown they are safe and effective. A modeling study published in 2022 in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet estimated that Covid-19 vaccines saved nearly 20 million lives in the first year they were available.

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He holds a coveted seat on ACIP, which was once considered the “international gold standard for vaccine decision-making” but has faced criticism after Kennedy fired 17 of the group’s voting members – including doctors, immunologists and epidemiologists – and replaced them with individuals who have been criticized for undermining public trust in the safety and efficacy of many vaccines, without any basis in fact.

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Mississippi Democrats on Tuesday will decide between longtime representative Bennie Thompson and his 34-year-old primary challenger in a race that reflects generational struggle for control of the party.

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Thompson, a 78-year-old civil rights leader who chaired the House 6 January Committee and serves as a ranking member on the House Homeland Security Committee, has held his seat for more than three decades, AP reports.

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He is running against Evan Turnage, an antitrust lawyer who previously worked for top Democrats in Washington, and Pertis Herman Williams III, who has called for a new era of leadership.

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Turnage is part of a wave of young Democrats who are hoping to oust older incumbents and usher in a new era. He has staked his candidacy on a message of economic populism and cast himself as a leader capable of understanding and regulating Big Tech and artificial intelligence.

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Turnage faces an uphill battle against Thompson, who has more than $1.5 million in his bank account. Since mid-December, Turnage’s campaign has raised just over $200,000 and has a little under $40,000 left to spend

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Posing an additional challenge is Thompson’s incumbency advantage.

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Marvin King, an associate professor of political science at the University of Mississippi, said Thompson’s 17 terms in Congress have made him an institution in a state where voters tend to reelect incumbents.

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“He’s basically been there like half of people’s lives on average,” King said. “No other challenger has effectively shown why Bennie Thompson should be dethroned.”

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Thompson has faced a few meaningful challengers from both the right and left, but none of his races have been considered close, King said.

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Hello and welcome to the US politics blog.

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Georgia voters are heading to the polls to choose a successor in Congress to Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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Republican former prosecutor Clay Fuller is likely to come out of Tuesday’s jungle primary, in which the top two candidates go to a runoff regardless of party, alongside retired army general Shawn Harris, a Democrat.

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The two would face a runoff election on 7 April.

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Fuller has Trump’s endorsement and had raised more than $1m leading into voting Tuesday, but Harris, who faced Greene two years ago, has raised more than four times as much.

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Even though four Republican candidates dropped out before the election, the Republican field is fractured between more than a dozen candidates, including former state senator Colton Moore, a combative agitator to the right of most Republican legislators in Georgia.

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“This is an interesting case to see how powerful Trump’s hold over the party is in that particular district,” said Kerwin Swint, a political science professor at Kennesaw State University who lives in the district at stake.

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Swint said the most likely outcome was Harris finishing first without a majority, while the field of a dozen Republican candidates splits the party’s vote, leaving either Fuller or Moore to claim the second runoff spot.

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Swint added that Harris was almost certain to lose to the Republican in the runoff, given the district’s conservative leanings.

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Greene, also a firebrand on the right, broke hard against Trump last year, beginning by questioning his first strike on Iran in June, then by sounding alarms during budget talks that the end of healthcare subsidies would wreck her constituents’ finances.

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The administration’s resistance on the Epstein files was the last straw; Trump and Greene turned on each other, leading to Greene’s resignation in January to avoid a contentious, divisive primary challenge.

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Read our full report here:

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  As oil prices surged amid the widening war with Iran, Donald Trump said that the conflict could be over “very soon” while threatening even more aggressive action if Tehran moved to cut off global energy supplies. During back-to-back appearances in Florida, Trump said the US had taken a “little excursion” to the Middle East “to get rid of some evil” but suggested the war, now in its second week, was ahead of schedule and near completion. More here.

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  Trump renewed his push for the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access, after threatening on Sunday not to sign any bills until Congress approves the legislation. “All voters must show proof of citizenship in order to vote,” Trump said during remarks on Monday at a Republican event in Miami. “No mail-in ballots, except for illness, disability, military or travel.” More here.

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  Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, has said “there will be more casualties” in the US military from the Trump administration’s war in Iran after officials confirmed on Sunday that the number of US service members killed had climbed to seven. He portrayed Trump’s decision for the US to join Israeli attacks on the Middle East country as essential “to advance American interests, and protect American lives”. More here.

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  A golf club company backed by the sons of Trump is merging with drone manufacturer Powerus in a deal designed to take the drone technology company public. The merger with Aureus Greenway Holdings is the latest in Eric and Donald Trump Jr’s growing investments in the drone sector, following last month’s $1.5bn tie-up between Israeli drone maker XTEND and Florida-based JFB Construction Holdings. More here.

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  Claudia Sheinbaum has responded to Trump’s description of Mexico as the “epicenter of violence,” by calling on the US government to step up efforts to combat gun trafficking. “There is something that the US can help us a lot with: stop the trafficking of illegal weapons from the US to Mexico,” the president of Mexico said. “If they stopped the entry of illegal weapons from the United States into Mexico, then these groups wouldn’t have access to this type of high-powered weaponry to carry out their criminal activities.” More here.

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Sara Braun

A new Democrat-led bill seeks to exempt small businesses from Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs, as small business owners continue to reel from the impacts of the battle over the president’s signature economic policy.

Introduced by the senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, the bill, known as the “Small Business Liberation 2.0 Act”, would exempt goods imported by or for the use of small businesses from new tariffs, which Trump enacted on 20 February, immediately after the US supreme court’s ruling invalidating his “liberation day” tariffs.

The bill text also prohibits price gouging as a result of the latest tariffs. Democratic senators Chuck Schumer, Mazie Hirono, John Hickenlooper, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar and Chris Van Hollen are signed on as co-sponsors of the bill.

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Timothy Pratt

The Guardian’s Timothy Pratt brings us reactions coming from voters in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district in Georgia:

Arthur Carlson, turning 97 next week and a retired Seventh Day Adventist minister, said Trump “says America First, but he doesn’t act it – and the war in Iran is one example. Ever since he got in, he’s tried to be king.” He voted for one of the three Democrats in the field of 17 candidates to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Luis Linares, 24, has lived in Dalton all his life. He voted for Trump in 2024 and thinks “the U.S. is strong under Trump, and that the war in Iran is to free their people.” He cast his ballot for GOP candidate Nicky Lama, a former local politician, because “he went with my brother to high school.”

Linares’ parents came from El Salvador to work in the town’s carpet industry. Nearly 55 percent of Dalton’s population of about 35,000 is Hispanic.

Juan Escudero, a 61-year-old local business owner who has lived in Dalton 22 years and became a citizen in June, was voting for the first time. He also voted for Lama, who he met shortly after arriving to town two-plus decades ago. “The president is doing a good job,” he said. “I think things are going well.”

Hannah Fleming and Laura Bishop voted for Democratic candidate Shawn Harris because they’re “looking for something different,” said Fleming, whose t-shirt said, “women belong in the White House.”

Maria Guijón, 39, was brought from Mexico when she was 11 and works as a paralegal with Dalton’s immigrant community. “There should be a person with a different point of view” in Greene’s seat. “There needs to be reform in the immigration system,” she added.

Yvonne Otts, 85 and a Dalton native, said “the biggest thing for me is to get somebody with good sense, common sense.” Greene, she said, “put herself first – she didn’t put America first. We’re putting American first for the first time [with Trump].”

“I supported a Republican candidate – the president should have people around him who support him,” Otts said. As for the war in Iran, “That doesn’t affect me at all,” she said. “It’s a very short-term thing.”

Republican and Democrat head for run-off in election for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s House seat

George Chidi

Republican former prosecutor Clay Fuller and retired army general Shawn Harris, a Democrat, will head to a run-off after they came out ahead in a special election Tuesday to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress.

The election for the state’s 14th congressional district has been seen as a test of Donald Trump’s sway and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in a deep-red pocket of north-west Georgia.

Fuller has Trump’s endorsement and had raised more than $1m leading into voting Tuesday, but Harris, who faced Greene two years ago, has raised more than four times as much. Even though four Republican candidates dropped out before the election, the Republican field was fractured among more than a dozen candidates, including former state senator Colton Moore, a combative agitator to the right of most Republican legislators in Georgia.

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After the Pentagon confirmed that about 140 US troops have been wounded in the US-Iran war, Democratic National Committee chair, Ken Martin, slammed Donald Trump for failing “to provide Americans with a coherent justification.”

“Ten days into his war of choice in Iran, Trump has failed to provide Americans with a coherent justification, given contradictory timelines that change daily, and has demonstrated little remorse over the human cost of war,” Martin wrote in a statement on Tuesday.

“Meanwhile, the American people are totally in the dark while U.S. troops remain in harm’s way and Americans are stranded in the Middle East because of Trump’s illegal war,” he added.

The minelayers near the strait of Hormuz were among multiple Iranian vessels taken out by US forces today, according to a post by the US Central Command.

In a post on X, the military published unclassified footage of some of the vessels after Donald Trump warned Iran against laying mines in the critical waterway.

The world’s most popular podcaster, Joe Rogan, said Donald Trump’s supporters “feel betrayed” by the conflict in Iran.

“Well, it just seems so insane, based on what he ran on. I mean, this is why a lot of people feel betrayed, right?” Rogan said during an episode launched today. “He ran on, ‘No more wars,’ ‘End these stupid, senseless wars,’ and then we have one that we can’t even really clearly define why we did it.”

Rogan has slowly begun to distance himself from the US president after endorsing him in 2024. Earlier this year, Rogan compared US immigration raids to Gestapo operations during an episode where he and his guest were discussing the death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old woman who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis..

In an interview with CNBC, Republican senator Ted Cruz said he has “not seen a basis” for President Trump’s decision to ban all federal agencies from using the artificial intelligence model developed by Anthropic after the standoff between the company and the Pentagon.

“I’ll confess, I have not seen a basis laid out for why the government would be prohibited from using Anthropic,” Cruz told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin. “Claude is one of the many AI tools that can be very helpful.”

The Texas lawmaker’s remarks come amid a monthslong feud over Anthropic’s efforts to implement safeguards against the military’s potential use of its artificial intelligence models for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous lethal weapons. Yesterday, the company filed two lawsuits against the department of defense over the Trump administration’s decision to label the AI firm a “supply chain risk.”

Microsoft has filed a legal brief supporting Anthropic in its case against the Trump administration, asking a court to temporarily block the Pentagon from labeling the AI company a supply chain risk.

Anthropic sued the Trump administration on Monday after President Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using the company’s AI products, following the company’s statement that it did not want its models to be used in mass surveillance of Americans or for autonomous lethal weapons.

According to a filing in the US District Court in San Francisco, Microsoft said a judge should issue a restraining order that would block the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk.

The restraining order would “enable a more orderly transition and avoid disrupting the American military’s ongoing use of advanced AI,” reads the filing.

The State Department has authorized up to $40m in emergency funds to pay for charter flights evacuating Americans from the Middle East, two US officials told the AP.

The funds come amid transportation disruptions caused by the war with Iran. The department had approved the use of money from a fund normally reserved for emergencies that involve diplomatic and consular staff.

Private Americans are obligated to reimburse the government for such transportation under federal law, but secretary of state Marco Rubio waived that requirement last week.

Trump announces plans to open oil refinery in Texas

Donald Trump said that America First Refining plans to open a new oil refinery in Brownsville, Texas, as part of a $300b deal.

“THE BIGGEST IN US HISTORY, A MASSIVE WIN for American Workers, Energy, and the GREAT People of South Texas! Thank you to our partners in India, and their largest privately held Energy Company, Reliance, for this tremendous Investment,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday.

Trump claimed that the new refinery will “strengthen” the US national security, “fuel” the US markets, and deliver “Billions of Dollars in Economic impact.”

Trump also said the oil refinery, which he said is the first new US oil refinery in 50 years, would be the “CLEANEST REFINERY IN THE WORLD,” bringing “THOUSANDS” of new jobs to the area.