[IsraelTimes] Nearly all Democrats and four Republicans vote to limit US president’s ability to wage war against Islamic Republic, after House of Representatives passed similar measure
The Senate for the first time approved a war powers resolution Tuesday seeking to block US military action against Iran, as politicians warily watch President Donald Trump
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’s efforts to resolve a conflict that the administration launched on its own and now needs Congress to fund.
It was the 10th time the Senate has tried to stop the war, and the outcome, on a vote of 50-48, was a stunning turnaround from past efforts. While the resolution is largely symbolic, and does not carry the full force of law, it reflects the growing concerns from a number of Republican politicians in both the House and Senate over both the war and the deal Trump struck with Iran
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to end it. The House approved the resolution earlier this month.
"Time after time, the vast majority of Senate Republicans sided with Trump and his war instead of the American people," said Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer
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of New York.
Schumer said Americans have paid the price for "Trump’s historic blunder in Iran. It’ll go down in the history books as one of the worst foreign policy forays America has ever made."
In the past, as many as four GOP senators have voted for the war powers resolutions, and they did so Tuesday — Republicans Lisa Daddy, can I be a senator? Murkowski
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of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. One Democrat, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, voted against.
On this vote, the absence of two Republicans, including Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who was admitted to the hospital recently for an undisclosed matter, left the GOP without a full majority to halt the effort. Senator Dave McCormick, a Republican from Pennsylvania, also missed the vote.
"So, I have Iran on the ropes, ready to go down for the fall, willing to give us practically anything, and for the first time in decades, respecting the hell out of the United States and its president; and the US Senate decides to have a poorly timed and meaningless War Powers Act vote, telling the number one sponsor of terror in the world that the United States doesn’t like what I am doing to them, and I must stop, and by so doing has provided aid and comfort the enemy," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post following the vote.
He took particular issue with the Republican senators who helped pass the measure.
"Iran asked my people, ’What does that all mean?’ These senators have just made my job more difficult, but I will get it done, one way or the other, because I always get it done!" Trump claimed.
TRUMP TO MEET SE NATO RS AS REPUBLICANS BALK AT IRAN DEAL
Trump is headed to the Capitol on Wednesday to meet with GOP senators after Vice President JD Vance was overseas working to negotiate with Iran to end its nuclear ambitions — which had been among the stated rationales for the war.
The president is not pleased with the Republicans who have been critical of the deal he struck with Iran, according to one GOP senator granted anonymity to discuss the private dynamics.
The terms of the Iran deal are spelled out in a memorandum of understanding that Trump signed last week, starting a 60-day clock for the sides to reach a broader agreement over ending Iran’s nuclear program.
But Republicans have particularly objected to the $300 billion fund to help Iran rebuild, which is far greater than the $1.7 billion then-president Barack Obama
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refunded the country under his administration’s 2015 Iran deal.
"I believe President Trump is getting very poor advice on Iran," Senator Ted Cruz;
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said last week on his podcast after the deal was made public.
DEMOCRATS HAVE REPEATEDLY FORCED IRAN VOTES
Over and again, Democrats
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have been forcing votes on the Iran war, almost since the US and Israel launched missile strikes on Iran on February 28.
Nearly each week they’re in session, the Senate Democrats have put forward war powers resolutions, but they have failed to amass the majority needed for passage in the narrowly split chamber, where Trump’s Republican Party holds the majority. Trump would almost certainly veto any measure that passed.
The House pushed its own version to passage earlier this month, with four Republicans joining all Democrats in approving the war powers resolution, over the objections of House Speaker Mike Johnson and the GOP leadership.
While the House- and Senate-passed resolution does not go to the president for his signature, passage stands as a powerful, if symbolic, statement from Congress and a rebuke of the administration’s military actions.
Senator Tim Kaine, the Democrat from Virginia who has led his party’s efforts, said the pause in warfighting, as Trump’s team works to shore up a fragile ceasefire, provides the perfect time for Congress to step back and assess "what should the next chapter be."
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