President Donald Trump met with Republican senators Tuesday to discuss the government shutdown, but they pivoted to another matter: the president’s hopes to import beef from Argentina.
It quickly turned into a rare instance of Republicans clashing with the president publicly — a high-steaks meeting, indeed.
“If you flood the market, that hurts beef producers badly,” Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho, a cattle rancher, said during a video filmed by his staff in his office after the meeting Tuesday, which he invited NOTUS to watch him record when asked about beef. (No questions, Risch instructed. Just listening.)