Trump says he would start the Iran war again

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would start the war with Iran again if he had the decision to make over, telling reporters at a White House event about his ballroom that the conflict was the only "long-term" way to deny Iran a nuclear weapon. His vice president had already posted the bill. "The reason we lost is the war," JD Vance wrote on X that morning. "The president himself said so last night."

The admission came the morning after voters handed Democrats control of both the House and the Senate. Trump conceded the damage in his own accounting — "the price, not the war, the price" — and insisted the operation had worked: "We stopped them from having a nuclear weapon, and they will never have a nuclear weapon." Vance went further, daring his own party to defend the trade: "If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so." Vance, widely described as the heir to MAGA until Tuesday, is now working to shed the label, with Rubio waiting in the wings.

What changes in January is the purse, not the presidency. The Democratic margin in the House, however large, cannot on its own override a presidential veto; that takes two-thirds of both chambers, the same threshold required to convict an impeachment. What a majority can do alone is subpoena, hold hearings and write the spending bills that keep the war running. According to law professor Jonathan Turley, working groups on the Hill have already sketched the expected agenda, with Pete Hegseth the favorite for the first impeachment target and some division on pursuing a third impeachment of Trump himself. Representative Robert Garcia, expected to chair the House Oversight Committee, posted two words within minutes of the result being called: "Lawyer up." Chuck Schumer supports "corruption investigations" and does not appear eager for a trial.

Two Senate races remained too close to call — in Mississippi, where Democratic prosecutor Scott Colom was challenging Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, and in Alaska, where about a quarter of ballots were still uncounted — along with a handful of House contests that could widen the majority further. Trump said he expects to get along with the new Congress "unless they want to get destructive."

That afternoon the White House posted a photograph of the president above two words: NEVER SURRENDER.