Iran war complicates the economic pivot GOP badly wants to see from Trump

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/11/politics/trump-republicans-iran-war-economic-pivot

Was the conflagration a war, a reporter asked, or merely an “excursion,” as the president had just described it.

“Well, it’s both,” he explained.

“It’s an excursion that will keep us out of a war, and the war is going to be, I mean for them — it’s a war. For us, it’s turned out to be easier than we thought,” he continued.

For Americans eager for clarity on where, exactly, this is headed, it wasn’t much.

And for a president looking to present his best case on a conflict that has roiled markets and polls poorly, it was a window into a difficult political moment.

And Republicans by and large support Trump’s military action, though many voices within Trump’s MAGA movement have either voiced deep skepticism or outright rejected the premise on which the conflict was launched.