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Posted on 06/23/2026 1:06:33 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
The Senate on Tuesday adopted a resolution instructing President Trump to end the war in Iran or seek congressional authorization to continue it, delivering the most significant bipartisan rebuke yet of the conflict.
The resolution does not have the force of law and is therefore unlikely to compel an immediate change in policy. But the 50-to-48 vote — in which four Republicans joined Democrats in favor — marked a striking break by the G.O.P.-led Congress with a president who has faced little resistance from his party on any topic, particularly matters of war and national security.
It underscored a growing impatience among them as the war was approaching its fifth month about continuing to defer to the president.
The vote was also the latest evidence of tension over the war inside the Republican Party, which faces a punishing political environment ahead of midterm elections in which G.O.P. control of Congress is at stake. With polls showing the conflict deeply unpopular, some lawmakers in the party have voiced concerns about its economic toll, uncertain objectives and the risk of a broader regional escalation.
Tuesday’s vote marked the first time since the enactment of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 that both chambers of Congress have approved a concurrent resolution directing a president to end a military conflict.
In the Senate on Tuesday, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the lone Democrat to vote against the resolution. Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana broke with fellow Republicans and supported the measure. Their backing and the absence of two Republicans who have opposed such measures in the past, including Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, who was recently hospitalized, allowed the resolution to prevail.
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IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS! IT IS THE INCREASINGLY SHORT ROAD TO
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R.A.BACHERT 6/23/26
But 4 republicans volunteered to join the circular firing squad.
“The resolution does not have the force of law and is therefore unlikely to compel an immediate change in policy.”
Pass the SAVE act. Scumbags.
Iran is just gonna love that one! Way to go Congress and GOP!
Susan Collins
Lisa Murkowski
Rand Paul
Bill Cassidy
What a shocker. Would have included Cocaine Mitch too, if his sorry, corrupt, broken down old ass had been there.
This was “President” Carl Albert’s law in 1973 to throw Vietnam to the Viet Cong.
Strongly worded letter. Got it.
Trump issues executive order directing the Senate to kiss his ass.
these basTu**s couldn’t even cast their (meaningless) votes to back the sitting President of USA while he’s trying to end, prevent serious danger to America
“ The resolution does not have the force of law”
More bs from the usual suspects.
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