US Senate votes to advance resolution to curb Trump’s Iran war powers
Chamber advances bill for first time as four Republicans join all but one of Senate’s Democrats in favor
The Senate voted on Tuesday to advance a war powers resolution aimed at forcing Donald Trump to end the war in Iran unless he receives congressional authorization to continue it.
Tuesday’s 50-47 vote marks the first time the chamber has advanced the bill, the eighth attempt at doing so since the conflict began in February.
Four Republicans joined all but one of the Senate’s Democrats in voting to pass the bill.
This time, Senator Bill Cassidy, fresh from a primary loss in Louisiana in a race where Trump endorsed his opponent, voted to take up the measure.
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine also voted to advance the bill, as they did in previous votes. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the sole Democrat to vote against it, while three Republicans did not vote.
Tuesday’s vote marks just the first step toward full passage of the resolution, which Trump will almost certainly veto even if it does pass in both the Senate and the House.
Still, Democrats see the resolution’s advancement as a way to force Republicans to take a stance on Trump’s unpopular war.
“The Senate should use this moment to do what we should have done before the war started – discuss the rationale, strategy, end state, and costs to American taxpayers and our economy,” said the bill’s sponsor, Virginia senator Tim Kaine, in a statement ahead of the vote.
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Basically the Senate voted on Tuesday to advance a war powers resolution aimed at forcing Donald Trump to end the war in Iran unless he receives congressional authorization to continue it. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.
In other words tuesday’s 50-47 vote marks the first time the chamber has advanced the bill, the eighth attempt at doing so since the conflict began in February. Curious to see how this develops.
If four Republicans joined all but one of the Senate’s Democrats in voting to pass the bill, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
The bigger issue here is four Republicans joined all but one of the Senate’s Democrats in voting to pass the bill. That changes the calculation.
Think about it: four Republicans joined all but one of the Senate’s Democrats in voting to pass the bill. That speaks volumes.
This raises more questions than it answers.
So the bottom line is four Republicans joined all but one of the Senate’s Democrats in voting to pass the bill. Wonder how this will land.
Reading that four Republicans joined all but one of the Senate’s Democrats in voting to pass the bill — hard to argue with the logic there.
Considering this time, Senator Bill Cassidy, fresh from a primary loss in Louisiana in a race where Trump endorsed his opponent, voted to take up the measure, it raises some real questions about what happens next.
If this time, Senator Bill Cassidy, fresh from a primary loss in Louisiana in a race where Trump endorsed his opponent, voted to take up the measure, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
The bigger issue here is lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine also voted to advance the bill, as they did in previous votes. That changes the calculation.
What stands out is tuesday’s 50-47 vote marks the first time the chamber has advanced the bill, the eighth attempt at doing so since the conflict began in February. That is the part worth paying attention to.
Considering four Republicans joined all but one of the Senate’s Democrats in voting to pass the bill, it raises some real questions about what happens next.
When you look at four Republicans joined all but one of the Senate’s Democrats in voting to pass the bill, the implications are hard to ignore.
So the bottom line is this time, Senator Bill Cassidy, fresh from a primary loss in Louisiana in a race where Trump endorsed his opponent, voted to take up the measure. Wonder how this will land.