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US Senate Votes to Limit Trump’s Iran War Powers

US Senate Votes to Limit Trump’s Iran War Powers

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The U.S. Senate passed a 50‑48 resolution to halt President Trump’s military campaign against Iran, requiring the president to seek congressional approval before using force. The measure, supported by four Republicans breaking ranks, marked the 10th attempt to limit Trump’s war powers and followed reports of an interim peace deal negotiated with Iran.

Donald Trump
Republican Party
1. Why would anybody vote for the War Powers Act?
2. Iran sees that, they go 'what's that all about'. Now you know, it's meaningless, right?
Marco Rubio
Republican Party
1. We're not going to do anything that undermines the security of our allies, our longstanding allies in the region.
Bill Cassidy
Republican Party
1. I appreciate the ⁠quick invitation to the White House to address many of my concerns.
2. It does not appear, although I don't know for sure, that the course of this is going the way that we were told.
3. The American people need to know more than we are being told.
4. I stood and said, 'You have not told the American people what's going on,'
Rand Paul
Republican Party
1. My opinion on the debate over war and executive power has not changed and I have voted that way several times. But since hostilities seem to be over and the President asked me to give consideration to his negotiating position, I will do so. My vote of present is a way to give the President more space and leverage to negotiate a lasting peace.
James Risch
Republican Party
1. It's going to have no effect. The president isn't going to pay any attention to it.
2. They're going to say: This thing's over. The Congress has told the President of the United States, 'Leave us alone. We can do whatever we want to do,' and they will walk away.
3. If this passes, the Iranians are going to simply stand up and walk away from negotiations.
Ted Cruz
Republican Party
1. I believe President Trump is getting very poor advice on Iran.
White House
1. Concurrent resolutions do not go to the president and have no force of law.
Chuck Schumer
Democratic Party
1. Republicans can complain about Trump's war, his secrecy, and his disastrous deal with Iran all they want behind closed doors, but the only way to ensure this war ends once and for all is for Republicans to act.
2. Time after time, the vast majority of Senate Republicans sided with Trump and his war instead of the American people.
3. The American people have seen skyrocketing gas prices, soaring costs, and, tragically, the loss of 13 service members, and the wounding of hundreds more, and meanwhile, Iran took Trump to the cleaners.
4. 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.
5. But Democrats will keep forcing this vote, and we're going to keep doing it because only Congress has the power to take this nation to war, and this one must end.
6. For years, Trump promised to put maximum pressure on Iran, but he ended up delivering maximum confusion, maximum chaos, maximum cost to the American people with his disastrous war.