• Video
  • Shop
  • Culture
  • Family
  • Wellness
  • Food
  • Living
  • Style
  • Travel
  • News
  • Book Club
  • Newsletter
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your US State Privacy Rights
  • Children's Online Privacy Policy
  • Interest-Based Ads
  • Terms of Use
  • Do Not Sell My Info
  • Contact Us
  • © 2026 ABC News
ABC News

After strike on Iran, Trump focuses on his megabill

PHOTO: President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn upon arriving at the White House, June 21, 2025, in Washington.
9:43
Jose Luis Magana/AP
US attack on Iran ‘a spectacular military success,’ Trump says
By Kevin Shalvey, Alexandra Hutzler, Ivan Pereira
Last Updated: June 23, 2025, 6:49 AM

President Donald Trump on Sunday pushed Republicans to get behind his taxation bill that will fund his agenda as the self-imposed Fourth of July deadline approaches.

“Great unity in the Republican Party, perhaps unity like we have never seen before. Now let’s get the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill done,” Trump wrote on social media.

Trump addressed the nation on Saturday night after the U.S. carried out airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facility, which he called "a spectacular military success."

Latest headlines:

  • After Iran strike, Trump sets sights on his ‘big, beautiful bill’
  • Trump rebuke of Gabbard is 'shocking,' Sen. Reed says
  • Vance accuses California officials of 'endangering law enforcement' during LA visit
Here's how the news is developing.

Jun 23, 2025 6:49 AM

After Iran strike, Trump sets sights on his ‘big, beautiful bill’

Following the U.S. military strike on Iran, Trump publicly praised what he called "great unity" within the Republican Party and shifted his focus to the administration's next legislative priority.

“Great unity in the Republican Party, perhaps unity like we have never seen before. Now let’s get the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill done,” Trump wrote on social media. “Our Country is doing GREAT. MAGA!”

PHOTO: President Donald Trump and Vice Presiden JD Vance in the Situation Room, at the White House in Washington, June 21, 2025.
@WhiteHouse/X
President Donald Trump and Vice Presiden JD Vance in the Situation Room, at the White House in Washington, June 21, 2025.
@WhiteHouse/X

The post was the president’s first public comment since his address to the nation about the Iran attack on Saturday evening. The administration is aiming to pass the president's tax legislation ahead of the self-imposed July Fourth deadline.

-ABC News’ Kelsey Walsh


Jun 21, 2025 6:17 PM

B-2 stealth bombers head for Guam: Sources

Multiple B-2 stealth bombers were headed to Guam Saturday, two sources familiar with their movements told ABC News Saturday.

PHOTO: In this July 4, 2020, file photo, a U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber is flanked by 4 U.S. Marine Corps F-35 fighters during a flyover of military aircraft down the Hudson River and New York Harbor.
Mike Segar/Reuters, FILE
In this July 4, 2020, file photo, a U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber is flanked by 4 U.S. Marine Corps F-35 fighters during a flyover of military aircraft down the Hudson River and New York Harbor.
Mike Segar/Reuters, FILE

At this point, the aircraft have no orders beyond that.

-ABC News' Luis Martinez and Katherine Faulders


Jun 21, 2025 3:31 PM

Bannon playing an outsized role in administration's Iran decision: Sources

By the time Trump and MAGA podcaster Steve Bannon sat down for lunch on Thursday, the president had already approved a plan on how the U.S. might attack an Iranian nuclear facility, sources with knowledge of the meeting told ABC News.

Bannon, who had already spoken with Trump by phone ahead of their lunch, thought all of it was a bad idea, according to several people close to him.

Sources say he arrived at the White House for his previously scheduled lunch with Trump armed with specific talking points: Israeli intelligence can’t be trusted, he planned to say, and the bunker-buster bomb might not work as planned.

The precise risk to the U.S. troops in the Middle East, particularly the 2,500 in Iraq, also wasn’t clear if Iran retaliated, he would add.

A White House official insists that by the time Trump sat down with Bannon for lunch the president had already made a decision to hold off on a strike against Iran.

Read more .

-ABC News' Anne Flaherty, Jonathan Karl, Shannon K. Kingston and Luis Martinez



Jun 21, 2025 1:38 PM

Trump rebuke of Gabbard is 'shocking,' Sen. Reed says

Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island told ABC News that President Donald Trump's rebuke of his own intelligence chief is "shocking" and suggested Trump is disavowing his intelligence community for political reasons.

"It's shocking to me that the president would dismiss his intelligence chief, who he picked," Reed, a Democrat who is a ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told ABC News.

"This might not be a question of intelligence. This might be a question of political positioning, regardless of the intelligence," Reed said.

Weeks ago, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard testified that the intelligence community continues to assess "Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003."

On Friday, Trump said both Gabbard and his intelligence community are flat out "wrong."

PHOTO: In this Jan. 30, 2025, file photo, Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, D.C.
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, FILE
In this Jan. 30, 2025, file photo, Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, D.C.
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, FILE

Trump is "in a position now where he's contemplating an attack against Iran, and he has to have the conclusion that they do in fact have a nuclear – or the capacity to develop a nuclear weapon very quickly and the intent to do so – so that I think is prompting him to reject the intelligence community's conclusions," Reed said.

Reed added that if Gabbard made a false statement in her testimony, "there would be an obligation to correct the record immediately, not just in the wake of this activity by the Israelis to suddenly conclude that she was totally wrong."

-ABC News' Selina Wang


Jun 21, 2025 12:05 AM

Vance accuses California officials of 'endangering law enforcement' during LA visit

Vice President JD Vance delivered remarks on Friday after landing in Los Angeles and touring federal law enforcement operations.

Vance accused California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass of encouraging violent protesters and accused Newsom of “endangering law enforcement.”

PHOTO: Vice President JD Vance delivers remarks at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles, June 20, 2025.
Daniel Cole/Reuters
Vice President JD Vance delivers remarks at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles, June 20, 2025.
Daniel Cole/Reuters

“Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, by treating this city as a sanctuary city, have basically said that it is open season on federal law enforcement,” the vice president said.

“What happened here was a tragedy. You had people who were doing the simple job of enforcing the law, and they had rioters egged on by the governor and the mayor, making it harder to do their job. That is disgraceful, and it is why the president has responded so forcefully,” said Vance.

“If you let violent rioters burn great American cities to the ground, then of course, we are going to send federal law enforcement in,” Vance said when asked if he was pleased with Thursday’s federal appeals court ruling.

PHOTO: Vice President JD Vance shakes hands with troops at the Wilshire Federal Building on June 20, 2025, in Los Angeles.
Jae C. Hong/AP
Vice President JD Vance shakes hands with troops at the Wilshire Federal Building on June 20, 2025, in Los Angeles.
Jae C. Hong/AP

When asked by a reporter to comment on Democratic lawmakers getting handcuffed recently, Vance incorrectly referred to Sen. Alex Padilla as "José Padilla."

"I was hoping José Padilla would be here to ask a question. But, unfortunately, I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn’t the theater, and that’s all it is,” Vance said. “It’s pure political theater. These guys show up. They want to be captured on camera doing something."

Padilla was forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference earlier this month in LA, taken to the ground and handcuffed by law enforcement officers.


GMA Newsletters

Sign up for our newsletters to get GMA delivered to your inbox every morning!

Up Next in news

VIDEO: NASA unveils Artemis III crew

NASA unveils Artemis III crew

June 10, 2026
PHOTO: A Navy base employee was critically injured in a shark attack Monday near a marina at Naval Support Activity Panama City in Florida, officials said.

Navy base employee critically injured in shark attack in Florida

June 10, 2026
PHOTO: Nick Reiner appears with Deputy Public Defender Kimberly Greene during his arraignment in Los Angeles County Superior Court on February 23, 2026 in Los Angeles.

Nick Reiner demands trust fund money to pay for his defense, court filing shows

June 9, 2026

The latest lifestyle and entertainment news and inspiration for how to live your best life - all from Good Morning America.
  • Contests
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Do Not Sell My Info
  • Children’s Online Privacy Policy
  • Advertise with us
  • Your US State Privacy Rights
  • Interest-Based Ads
  • About Nielsen Measurement
  • Press
  • Feedback
  • Shop FAQs
  • ABC News
  • ABC
  • All Videos
  • All Topics
  • Sitemap

© 2026 ABC News
  • Privacy Policy— 
  • Your US State Privacy Rights— 
  • Children's Online Privacy Policy— 
  • Interest-Based Ads— 
  • Terms of Use— 
  • Do Not Sell My Info— 
  • Contact Us— 

© 2026 ABC News