Rachel Abrams

In a matter of weeks, Trump ousted five Republican state lawmakers in Indiana who opposed his plan to redraw election maps there, a U.S.

senator from Louisiana who voted to impeach Trump,

And now Massey, who broke with Trump on several key issues, including Jeffrey Epstein.

And the Senate agreed to take up a measure to force President Trump to either end the war in Iran or secure approval from Congress to continue it.

The move comes after a handful of Republicans joined Democrats in pushing forward with a resolution that the GOP has managed to block for months.

Today's episode was produced by Lexi Diao and Stella Tan.

It was edited by Rachel Quester and Lizzo Balin and contains music by Diane Wong, Alicia Baitube, Marion Lozano, and Dan Powell.

Our theme music is by Wonderly.

This episode was engineered by Chris Wood.

Special thanks to Alan Foyer.

That's it for The Daily.

I'm Rachel Abrams.

See you tomorrow.

From The New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.

For the first time in nearly a decade, President Trump will meet with China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

The meeting comes as Trump struggles to extract himself from the war with Iran and must now face off against China, the biggest threat to the U.S.

's dominance on everything from technology to trade.

Today, my colleague David Sanger explains what's likely to come of this meeting, and more pressingly, what will not.

It's Wednesday, May 13th.

David, we can hear you.