Senate Republicans Again Block Bid to Limit Trump’s Iran War Powers
For the fourth time since the war began, G.O.P. senators successfully fended off an effort to constrain the president. But there were signs of growing unease among Republicans.

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans voted down a resolution Wednesday pushed by Democrats to prohibit President Donald Trump from taking further military action in Iran
For the fourth time since the war began, G.O.P. senators successfully fended off an effort to constrain the president. But there were signs of growing unease among Republicans.
Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a resolution to limit President Trump’s war authority in Iran for the fourth time as the conflict inches closer to the 60-day limit laid out in the War Powers Act. The vote was 47-52, mostly along party lines, with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) voting with Democrats in favor of the…
Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a resolution to limit President Trump's war authority in Iran for the fourth time as the conflict inches closer to the 60-day limit laid out in the War Powers Act. The vote was 47-52, mostly along party lines, with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) voting with Democrats in favor of the…
The measure failed 47-52, with Republican Rand Paul joining all of the Democrats except John Fetterman.
The US Senate on Wednesday rejected a Democrat-led effort to end the Iran war as the chamber’s Democratic leader Chuck Schumer promised to force weekly votes on the increasingly unpopular and costly conflict.
Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) became the sole Democrat to protect President Donald Trump’s war in Iran on Thursday as he took down the Democratic-led resolution to end the war. The Democrats’ previous push to halt the Trump administration’s war in Iran ended last month after four members of the party sank the effort, but this…