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The U.S. 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
"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. President Trump criticized the resolution after it passed, writing on Truth Social that "Four Republican Losers voted with the Dumocrats, and 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!"
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.
A bipartisan majority in Congress has voted in favor of a war powers resolution to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran. “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.
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.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday found that a mere 23% of Americans believed the United States was stronger because of the war with Iran; nearly two-thirds thought any truce with Tehran was unlikely to last. Vance said the talks had laid a “good foundation” for a final deal.
His office said Monday that he would not vote this week.
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.
- A bipartisan majority in Congress has voted in favor of a war powers resolution to remove U.S.
- 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”.
- A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday found that a mere 23% of Americans believed the United States was stronger because of the war with Iran; nearly two-thirds thought any truce with Tehran was unlikely to last.
What's still developing
- A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday found that a mere 23% of Americans believed the United States was stronger because of the war with Iran; nearly two-thirds thought any truce with Tehran was unlikely to last.
- 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.
- His office said Monday that he would not vote this week.
- Vance said the talks had laid a “good foundation” for a final deal.
- 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.