US Senate rejects Iran war-powers resolution in narrow 50–49 vote
The US Senate on Thursday narrowly rejected a Democratic-led resolution that would have required Congress to authorise continued hostilities in Iran, with the measure failing 50–49 largely along party lines.
The US Senate on Thursday narrowly rejected a Democratic-led resolution aiming to stop the Iran war until hostilities are authorised by Congress, voting 50 to 49 to reject the measure. The resolution had passed the House of Representatives in July, and the vote fell largely along party lines, with most of President Donald Trump’s Republicans opposing it and almost every Democrat voting for it, Reuters reported.
The defeat marked the 14th war-powers vote in the Senate in the nearly seven-month-long conflict, which began in February. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) voted against the resolution with most Republicans, while four Republicans — Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rand Paul (R-KY) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) — sided in favour with most Democrats, according to the Washington Examiner. Tillis is retiring, while Murkowski and Paul are not up for re-election.
Vulnerable incumbents including Roger Marshall (R-KS), Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Jon Husted (R-OH) stuck with Trump to oppose the measure, with rising gas and diesel prices from the conflict weighing on their midterm campaigns.
The vote is the latest in a series of Democratic-led war-powers resolutions this year, all of them blocked — an earlier vote failed 52–47 in April.
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