Overview
- House Republicans are meeting at Trump's Miami-area golf club to craft a strategy to keep the Iran campaign from turning into an election liability.
- Crude prices jumped as high as $119.50 before hovering near $100 on Monday, while AAA’s national average gas price is about $3.48 per gallon.
- GOP Whip Tom Emmer urged calm on CNBC, calling the economic effects short term and saying prices will tumble once the operation ends.
- Trump cast higher energy costs as temporary and a small price for security on Truth Social, as analysts and some Republicans warn rising costs could undercut their affordability message.
- Rifts on the right widened, with Marjorie Taylor Greene calling the conflict a betrayal and Megyn Kelly voicing doubts, while Democrats circulated an unconfirmed claim that seven U.S. service members have been killed.