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Mar 11, 2026 - World

Surging gas prices amid the war in Iran have sent Republicans in a tailspin. With midterms approaching, GOP lawmakers have growing concerns over how voters will respond at the polls, according to The Swamp, The Daily Beast's Substack."GOP mutiny over rising gas prices," The Swamp reported. "Republicans are panicking over prices at the pumps hurting their midterm prospects, with Rick Scott saying he doesn’t buy the administration’s claim that it’s a temporary spike." The MAGA senator said Wednesday that it will take the United States time to regain control over the Strait of Hormuz, where attacks have escalated in the channel and created an oil chokepoint for global trade. "We want prices to come down. I think unfortunately, prices are going to be up for a while until this ends," Scott told CNN. He argued that prices could come down, despite growing concerns over affordability. "The most important thing we can do right now, and our job right now, is we’d love to get gas prices back down but the most important thing is to destroy Iran’s ability to produce a nuclear weapon, destroy their military, their ballistic missile capability and hopefully we end up with a country that wants to work with the world community," Scott said. "We all want gas prices to come down," he added. "Nobody wants gas prices higher. This president doesn’t want gas prices higher."Scott claimed that the U.S. had “no choice” but to enter the conflict and rising gas prices were now short-term problems.The timing has been troubling for Republicans, who have admitted that increasing energy prices have created political anxiety with elections just months away, according to Politico. Gas prices rose nearly 9 percent in the week after the bombing campaign began, with the national average for a gallon of regular gas hitting $3.25, according to AAA.Sen. Rick Scott: "Unfortunately, prices are gonna be up for a while" pic.twitter.com/ZcwbTSzImQ— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 11, 2026

Mar 11, 2026 - World

The FBI recently warned law enforcement agencies across California that Iran had allegedly considered launching a drone strike against the West Coast in retaliation for American military operations, according to an intelligence bulletin reviewed by ABC News.

Mar 11, 2026 - World

The administration sought permission Wednesday from the Supreme Court to cancel deportation amnesty for 350,000 Haitian migrants, saying lower judges have wrongly stymied President Trump's plans.

Mar 11, 2026 - World

The perfect storm of problems for Donald Trump has come to a head, with an analyst saying the president's shortcomings are a source of serious concern. Paul Waldman believes that, had the administration charted success on other issues, namely the cost-of-living crisis, then there would be a slightly more positive outlook on the war with Iran. But because Trump and his team failed to consolidate their efforts on the economy, rhetoric around the strikes on Iran has shifted negatively, and fast. Speaking to Greg Sargent of The New Republic, Waldman claimed there is little to no chance that Trump will sway the public into backing the Iran war. He said, "If he was showing himself to be competent in other areas—if the economy was going great and all kinds of other things were working out really well—I think that there would be a lot of Americans who would give him the benefit of the doubt, who might say, I’m not too sure about this, but he seems to know what he’s doing, so for now I won’t object."But when so many other things are going so poorly, and immediately you see all these ill effects—especially gas prices, which are unavoidable, you see them on every corner—at that point, nobody is ready to give them the benefit of the doubt.The people who are die-hard Trump supporters are with him. "But the rest of the public is basically saying, I need a really good attempt at persuasion, I really need a really good argument to know why this is something that I should be supportive of. "And he certainly hasn’t given them that, and they don’t have any reason to give him the benefit of the doubt. It’s hard to see that the support he has now for this war—about 40 percent—is going to get any higher. If anything, it’s probably going to go down as time goes on."Podcast host Sargent suggested the low polling numbers had even cost Trump some of his dedicated MAGA voters. He said, "It’s really kind of down at 38, 37 in some polls, and that’s sort of his floor number, that hard, molten core of MAGA—that 37, 38 percent. And that’s what he’s got right now. And this is just getting started."

Mar 11, 2026 - World

President Trump on Wednesday said the Iran war is turning out to be "easier than we thought."