All posts tagged "Nuclear Facilities"

The Trump-affiliated Kentucky MAGA super PAC has unleashed its first round of attacks on GOP contrarian Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) after the lawmaker vehemently opposed the president's weekend strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

President Donald Trump's team was cobbling together the organization in the days before Massie joined with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) to introduce a war powers resolution to prevent Trump from acting on his own against Iran, Axios reported Sunday. Trump ordered the strikes Saturday, before Congress could consider the resolution.

Massie, a deficit hawk who wears a "ticking debt clock" on his lapel, is also standing firm against Trump's megabill that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated would add more than $2.7 trillion to the deficit between 2025 and 2034....

CNN's Dana Bash defended a rival network on "Inside Politics" after President Donald Trump used his platform at Tuesday's NATO summit to admonish the news media for reporting on an initial intelligence assessment of his strikes on Iran.

Bash recounted the early assessment made by the Defense Intelligence Agency, which reported the strikes didn't completely "obliterate" Iran's nuclear sites, as Trump has been claiming.

"That did not sit well with the president, who jumped on a few reporters during his press conference, including our friend Kelly O'Donnell at NBC, who is asking questions about that single initial assessment," Bash said before playing a clip of Trump's takedown....

President Donald Trump careened wildly off script at a NATO press conference in the Netherlands Tuesday to praise his "great victory" in Iran and to air his grievances with the U.S. news media for "maligning" U.S. troops.

"It's so, so sad that that whole thing had to go," Trump said of Iran's nuclear facilities, "but I just want to thank our pilots. You know, they were maligned and treated very bad, demeaned by fake news CNN, which is back there, believe it or not, wasting time, wasting — nobody's watching them. So, they're just wasting a lot of time, wasting my time. And The New York Times, they put out a story that, 'Well, maybe they were hit, but it wasn't bad.' Well, it was so bad that they ended the war. It ended the war."

Trump compared his airstrikes to the nuclear bombings of Japan that ended World War II....

Congressional Democrats fumed Tuesday after the Trump administration abruptly canceled its scheduled classified briefing to bring the House of Representatives up to speed on President Donald Trump's decision to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities without authorization.

No follow-up date was provided, according to reports.

Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) posted a lengthy complaint to social media, writing, "Trump just cancelled a classified House briefing on the Iran strikes with zero explanation. The real reason? He claims he destroyed 'all nuclear facilities and capability;' his team knows they can’t back up his bluster and BS."...

As U.S. senators prepare to vote on a bipartisan bill proponent say will accelerate the development and commercialization of advanced nuclear reactor technologies, the Union of Concerned Scientists warned Monday that the legislation would increase the chances of a "catastrophic" meltdown by weakening the Nuclear Regulatory Commission—an agency already ridden by conflicts of interest.

Upper chamber lawmakers are expected to vote this week on the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act, introduced last year by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and passed by the House of Representatives in a 365-36 vote on February 28.

Proponents of the legislation argue it will facilitate U.S. nuclear leadership, develop and deploy new reactor technology, preserve existing nuclear energy, and more....

Growing concerns over Iran's nuclear facilities may prove to be all for naught. Officials from the global intelligence company Stratfor allegedly discussed that Israel may have already destroyed the Iranian nuclear facility, according to one of the emails released by Wikileaks Monday.