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Senate votes 50–48 in favor of a resolution to require the Trump administration to halt military action against Iran, joining the House of Representatives in doing so.
Confirmed
The Senate has voted on a war powers resolution nine other times, but none of those votes reached the simple majority threshold necessary to pass it until Tuesday. "Today, Congress stood up to Donald Trump and voted to end his costly, unnecessary, and devastating war with Iran," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement after the vote.
The House voted 215-208 this month to pass the same Democratic-led measure to end Trump’s war with Iran, offering a rare reprimand of the president. A bipartisan majority in Congress has voted in favor of a war powers resolution to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran.
Greg Meeks, the top Democrat on the House foreign affairs committee who sponsored the resolution, said in a statement he would “explore all legal avenues to ensure the executive complies with the will of Congress”. The Senate voted 50 to 48 on Tuesday afternoon, with four Republicans joining Democrats in support.
“Trump’s historic blunder in Iran will go down in the history books as one of the worst foreign policy forays America has ever made, or any country has ever made,” the Democratic minority leader, Chuck Schumer, said ahead of the vote on Tuesday.
What's confirmed
- “Trump’s historic blunder in Iran will go down in the history books as one of the worst foreign policy forays America has ever made, or any country has ever made,” the Democratic minority leader, Chuck Schumer, said…
- "Today, Congress stood up to Donald Trump and voted to end his costly, unnecessary, and devastating war with Iran," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement after the vote.
- The Senate has voted on a war powers resolution nine other times, but none of those votes reached the simple majority threshold necessary to pass it until Tuesday.
- The House voted 215-208 this month to pass the same Democratic-led measure to end Trump’s war with Iran, offering a rare reprimand of the president.
- Greg Meeks, the top Democrat on the House foreign affairs committee who sponsored the resolution, said in a statement he would “explore all legal avenues to ensure the executive complies with the will of Congress”.
- “Trump’s historic blunder in Iran will go down in the history books as one of the worst foreign policy forays America has ever made, or any country has ever made,” the Democratic minority leader, Chuck Schumer, said ahea
What's still developing
- Greg Meeks, the top Democrat on the House foreign affairs committee who sponsored the resolution, said in a statement he would “explore all legal avenues to ensure the executive complies with the will of Congress”.
- The House voted 215-208 this month to pass the same Democratic-led measure to end Trump’s war with Iran, offering a rare reprimand of the president.
- The Senate has voted on a war powers resolution nine other times, but none of those votes reached the simple majority threshold necessary to pass it until Tuesday.
- A bipartisan majority in Congress has voted in favor of a war powers resolution to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran.
- The Senate voted 50 to 48 on Tuesday afternoon, with four Republicans joining Democrats in support.