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.
I’ll say it again: We’re all French now.
Yup,that’s why Irun is stringing us along.
Because of insipid demonrats and assistant demonrats.🙄
We surely all know by now how Iran’s thinking goes if they figure there’s even a small chance of stringing us along to their ideas. Must be some who want to go Iran’s way of thinking on this,but I think that would surely be a mistake. They are our enemy at this point, are they not?
People forget, don’t remember or don’t want to know. The fundamental basis for culture in the Middle East is the tribe. Since approximately the 6th century Islam is the clothing wrapped tightly on to that foundation. A tribe makes its living by raiding other tribes and societies. After the raid if you survive and make off with the goods you stole that’s a win. If you just survive that’s still a win! Every Israeli-Arab conflict where the West brokers a ceasefire no matter what the condition of an Arab army the Arabs view it as a win. Example the 1973 October War, Egypt forces its way across a very lightly defended Suez (Company size Israeli defender!). Israel quickly mobilizes counterattacks and the Egyptian Army ends up surrounded but is saved from annihilation\surrender by a US\UN ceasefire. Because of that initial success and since Israel didn’t dictate terms in Cairo. Egypt views the 73 War as a victory. I maintain that every UN\US\Western intervention has done no more the set the stage for the next war. Those wars were never allowed to go to their natural conclusion.
This is why the abandonment of unconditional surrender was pretty close to surrender on OUR part.
Traitors!
That's very true.
Of course, how you feel about that depends on what you think the "natural conclusion" is going to be.
If those wars would have ended with Israeli armies beaten and surrounded. No amount of UN\US\Western pleading would have averted their annihilation or massacre of the Jewish population. Anyone who thinks otherwise has agenda that supposedly ended with WWII!
Yes, obviously that is one possible natural conclusion.
My point was, an aggressive Israeli war policy makes the most sense only if you believe that conclusion is impossible.
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