WASHINGTON — Skeptical congressional Republicans aren’t rushing to support President Trump’s still-secret Iran deal as they wait to read the document, which had not been shared with even the highest-ranking lawmakers as of Tuesday afternoon, despite leaks about its contents. 

“Unless you were homeschooled by a day drinker, no one’s confident that Iran is going to do anything,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told reporters, after saying, “I want to read it myself.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) — a member of the so-called Gang of Eight, which is typically looped in on high-stakes national security matters — revealed Tuesday that he still hasn’t been briefed.

“I think until the White House actually furnishes us the specific memo, it’s hard to react,” Thune told Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier.” “But clearly, like anybody else, we want to see the devil’s in the details.”

“I give the president great credit for having the guts and the courage to do the hard thing that no president for the last 50 years has been willing to do, and that is to degrade Iran’s nuclear capability and significantly diminish their military capabilities in the region.”

Thune revealed he’s received no guidance from the White House on when the cloud of uncertainty may lift — as Trump and his senior aides give conflicting timetables for public disclosure of the terms.

“My assumption is that [the briefing will happen] as the week wears on and we get closer to whenever the public release of this is gonna happen,” he said.

The memorandum of understanding (MOU) is expected to reopen the Strait of Hormuz without tolls for 60 days, but details about the future of Tehran’s nuclear program and potentially billions of dollars in sanctions relief and funding to help reconstruct the Middle Eastern country remain hazy.

The 60-day period will allow for final determinations on the status of deeply buried highly enriched uranium, which US officials hope to down-blend and leave in Iran, in conjunction with sanctions relief and the unfreezing of funds.

But the details of the preliminary deal have been withheld, allowing for competing narratives and generating concern about what exactly Trump got out of the costly nearly four-month war.

Later in the day Tuesday, reports emerged leaking the contents of the MOU, including 12 points of provisions such as Iran affirming it will never build a nuclear weapon, agreeing to technical negotiations over its enriched uranium stockpile, and more. 

In exchange, the US agreed to release some frozen Iranian assets, hold off on new sanctions, lift the naval blockade, and allow Tehran to resume oil sales through sanctions waivers, per reports. The deal also allegedly paves the way for a $300 billion reconstruction fund. 

“If this is true, Iran wins. There should be zero sanctions relief day one,” former 2024 GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley posted on X, citing a Wall Street Journal report on the MOU.

Many lawmakers weren’t privy to the leaked MOU.

“Haven’t seen it,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) told The Post, adding that he’d like to see it include provisions insisting that Iran will have “no nuclear weapons, no ballistic missiles, no money for proxies. Pay us for what we’ve had to do, paying Israel for all their damage.”

Earlier in the day, he told reporters, “I don’t think there’s anybody in Congress that’s ever going to support giving money to them,” Scott said of Iran. 

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) told reporters he was “withholding comment” on the MOU, but didn’t specify why.

On Monday, Thune had noted “even the people who follow this stuff closely up here don’t know that much about it.”

Spokespeople for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on whether he has read the deal.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee and another member of the Gang of Eight, also hadn’t been briefed, a spokesperson for his office said.

The deal will test Trump’s ability to maintain a diverse domestic coalition — after running for president three times, trashing both “warmongers” and diplomatic efforts he deemed ineffectual, including former President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump said did too little to constrain Tehran.

Trump lamented in 2017 that “Iran was on its last legs and ready to collapse until the U.S. came along and gave it a lifeline in the form of the Iran Deal: $150 billion.”

The White House has said the text of the agreement is about 1.5 pages, but absent the document, lawmakers are getting squimish.

“The sooner it is released, the better,” arch hawk Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) wrote in an X post Monday night. “I look forward to reviewing the actual document rather than relying on Iranian propaganda reports.”

Graham has withheld outright criticism of the deal while calling for it to be submitted to the Senate for approval. He said the yet-to-be-seen document could be “transformative for the region and a major achievement.”

Trump told reporters Tuesday that “I will send it to Congress” when asked about Graham’s remarks. The president also committed that the MOU would eventually be made public. Vance, who played a critical role during negotiations, claimed it hadn’t been released right away due to “diplomatic protocol.”

Administration officials have briefed reporters that any sanctions relief or unfreezing of funds would be tied to concrete steps by Iran to dismantle its nuclear program and cease support for regional armed groups — while also teasing “small antes” of money as a goodwill gesture.

Scott said he would be “surprised” if the reconstruction plans for Iran involved handing over $300 billion as part of the MOU.

Administration officials have confirmed the $300 billion plan, but said that it won’t be funded by the US and would instead be a Gulf Arab initiative to invest in Iranian projects, with an American veto if progress ceases.

“What I want to do is I want to get reimbursed for the money that we’ve had to spend, to bring them to their senses. I mean, they got plenty of oil,” Scott said. “They can rebuild their own country.”

“I can’t imagine that would ever be a deal,” he added, suggesting that it would be akin to Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal with Iran that gave the mullahs access to more than $50 billion in frozen funds, including pallets of cash flown from the US.

“That’s not going to happen. They’re not going to have … our planes full of dollar bills sent over there. That’s never going to happen again, you know, the, and if they don’t comply, we’re, you know, we’re going to have to go back and destroy them again because they’re not going to get a nuclear weapon.”

As elected Republicans await the text, a top outright critic is Trump’s former vice president Mike Pence.

“It’s my view that we would be better off allowing the armed forces of the United States to finish the job… [to] give the people of Iran a real shot at freedom,” he said Tuesday at the National Press Club.