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US ceasefire with Iran on 'life support,' Trump says |
President Trump said on Monday that the U.S. ceasefire with Iran is on "life support" after rejecting Tehran's counteroffer over the weekend.
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“It’s unbelievably weak,” the president told reporters when asked if the ceasefire with Iran remains in place for now.
Trump referred to the counteroffer as a “piece of garbage” and said he did not even finish reading it.
Iran reportedly demanded that the country have sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, war reparations and for the U.S. sanctions to end.
Later Monday, Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the nation's top negotiator with the U.S., argued there is "no alternative," but for Washington to "accept the rights of the Iranian people as laid out in the 14-point proposal."
"Any other approach will be completely inconclusive; nothing but one failure after another," he wrote in a post on social platform X. "The longer they drag their feet, the more American taxpayers will pay for it."
After rejecting the Iranian proposal, the Pentagon on Monday disclosed the location of a U.S. Navy nuclear-armed submarine, saying it arrived in Gibraltar, a British territory on Spain’s south coast, on Sunday.
“The port visit demonstrates U.S. capability, flexibility and continuing commitment to its NATO allies,” the Sixth Fleet said in a press release. “Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines are undetectable launch platforms for submarine-launched ballistic missiles, providing the U.S. with its most survivable leg of the nuclear triad.”
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Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & National Security newsletter, I’m Filip Timotija — your guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s latest attack against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) is underscoring the alarm over the state of the U.S. military’s weapons stockpiles more than two months into the war with Iran. Hegseth accused Kelly, a Navy veteran and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), of divulging classified information regarding key U.S. munitions during his appearance on a Sunday news …
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Rahm Emanuel rolled out his latest policy proposal on Sunday, arguing that the U.S. military needs reform to compete in modern warfare. In an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal, the former Chicago mayor wrote that the wars in Ukraine and Iran show that the Pentagon must “revolutionize” its approach to armed conflict. Drawing parallels to the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, which reorganized the Defense Department and …
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A group of seven Democrats sent a letter on Monday to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-K.Y.), asking him to issue subpoenas pursuant to an investigation into “suspicious” trades on prediction markets relating to the war with Iran. Democratic Reps. Maggie Goodlander (N.H.), Sara Jacobs (Calif.), Seth Magaziner (R.I.), Seth Moulton (Mass.), Chris Pappas (N.H.), Dina Titus (Nev.) and Rashida …
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Sebastian Gorka claimed the Trump administration had been “too effective” in its war in Iran in explaining why the conflict has stretched beyond President Trump’s initial prediction of a four-to-five-week timeline. Gorka, the senior counterterrorism director at the National Security Council, was responding to a question on how the American public should reconcile the original timeline with the current reality of a now …
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Upcoming things we’re watching on our beat:
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- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, will testify in front of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee on the Pentagon's $1.5 trillion defense budget request tomorrow at 8 a.m. ET.
- Hegseth and Caine will also testify in front of the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee on the Pentagon's $1.5 trillion defense budget request tomorrow at tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m. ET.
- Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and the Army's Vice Chief of Staff, Gen. Christopher C. LaNeve, will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee at 11 a.m. ET tomorrow to discuss “The posture of the Department of the Army in review of the Defense Authorization Request for FY2027 and the Future Years Defense Program."
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Branch out with a different read from The Hill:
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Immigration enforcement guidance for warrantless arrests falls short, federal judge says
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Thursday that instructions received by immigration enforcement officers to make civil immigrant arrests without warrants do not meet probable cause standards and should not used as guidance. In continuing a preliminary injunction she issued in December, U.S. …
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Events in and around the defense world:
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- The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is holding a discussion tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. ET on "The Trump-Xi Summit: Are We Reading China Right?"
- The Middle East Institute is holding a discussion tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. ET on "Fixing America’s Failed Middle East Strategy, With Jason Campbell."
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News we've flagged from other outlets:
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Two key stories on The Hill right now:
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A gold-colored mobile phone bearing President Donald Trump’s name was announced in June 2025. But customers may never see it, according to the website. Read more
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A group sued over President Trump’s Reflecting Pool project on Monday, arguing the renovation at the National Mall violates environmental and preservation … Read more
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