Former President Donald Trump reflected on his “encounters with death” and said the multiple assassination attempts on his life have only “hardened” his resolve.

On Wednesday at a rally in Long Island, New York, Trump took the stage speaking to a packed crowd at the Nassau Coliseum following the apparent second assassination attempt against the former president on Sunday at his International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

“So, as you know, three days ago, there was yet another assassination attempt on my life,” Trump said as the crowd broke out into boos. “It was the second one in eight weeks by a violent radical left mobster.”

“And God has now spared my life,” he added. “It must have been God, thank you. Not once, but twice. … These encounters with death have not broken my will. They have really given me a much bigger and stronger mission.”

Trump: “These encounters with death have not broken my will. They’ve only hardened my resolve to use my time on earth to make America great again for all Americans.” pic.twitter.com/Rmzuy5nFba

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“They’ve only hardened my resolve to use my time on earth to make America great again for all Americans,” Trump continued. “To put America first. We’re gonna put America first.”

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During the rally, chants of “USA, USA, USA” broke out after Trump announced that he’s going to win New York, which would be a first for a Republican since 1984, and vowed to “fix up our country.”

The former president was targeted in another apparent assassination attempt on Sunday when a 58-year-old man hid out for 12 hours near Trump’s golf course in Florida, allegedly to take a shot at him. Sunday’s assassination attempt came just two months after Trump was shot in the ear during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

During a town hall event on Tuesday, the former president talked about his economic policies and suggested that his “consequential” agenda could be the reason he’s been “shot at,” as previously reported.

Trump spoke with Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in front of a large crowd in Flint, Michigan, and the former president said he has been saddened to see the decline of the automotive industry in the Detroit and Flint area — what was known as the car manufacturing capital of the world.

The Republican nominee said the U.S. needs to manufacture more vehicles in the country instead of in Mexico and China. He then promised the crowd of Michiganders that his administration would put a 200% tariff on vehicles manufactured outside of the U.S.

Zach Jewell contributed to this piece.

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With a potential government shutdown looming in less than two weeks, the Republican-controlled House rejected on Wednesday a six-month spending measure combined with reforms meant to help prevent non-citizens from voting in federal elections.

A total of 220 members, including 14 Republicans and 206 Democrats, voted against the proposal backed by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). Another 202 members, including 199 Republicans and three Democrats, voted in favor of  it. Two other GOP members voted “present.” Seven lawmakers did not vote.

The proposal included a continuing resolution (CR) through March 28 and the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which aims to require that individuals show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in elections for federal office and pushes states to remove non-citizens from voter rolls.

House lawmakers passed the SAVE Act in July with some bipartisan support, but it never got taken up by the Democrat-led Senate. Critics of the SAVE Act claim it is unnecessary and would create an undue burden on legitimate voters, but proponents argue it would go a long way toward shoring up election security.

Johnson released a report in June that warned of a National Voter Registration Act “loophole” in which states do not ask for proof of citizenship when registering an individual to vote in federal elections and cited evidence of non-citizens appearing on voter rolls in places such as Massachusetts, Ohio, and Virginia.

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“Congress has an immediate obligation to do two things: responsibly fund the federal government and ensure the security of our elections,” Johnson said this week, while also encouraging his colleagues to listen to the “overwhelming majority” of Americans who do not want non-citizens voting in U.S. elections.

Johnson scheduled a vote on the CR and SAVE Act for Wednesday after he pulled the proposal from the House floor last week when it appeared to lack enough support. The speaker said he was committed to “consensus building” through the weekend.

But some Republicans simply did not want to pass another CR. “Just in case it’s not clear already, I’m a HARD NO on today’s CR,” Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) said in a post to X on Wednesday. “The solution? Pass all 12 Appropriations bills.”

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Even if the proposal managed to pass the House, it faced long odds in the Senate, where Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said, “We will not let poison pills or Republican extremism put funding for critical programs at risk.” And President Joe Biden threatened a veto if the House GOP plan reached his desk.

Former President Donald Trump, who is again running for the White House this year as the GOP nominee, said on Truth Social not long before the House vote on Wednesday that Republicans should “not agree to a Continuing Resolution in any way, shape, or form” if they “don’t get the SAVE Act, and every ounce of it.”

Lawmakers in the House and Senate are quickly running out of time to reach a deal to fund the various federal agencies for the coming fiscal year. A government shutdown could happen by the beginning of October — just weeks before a presidential election — if they fail to come to an agreement by the end of this month.