The Senate on Tuesday voted to advance a War Powers resolution to halt the Iran war unless Congress authorizes further hostilities. The motion to discharge the bill from committee passed 50-47, following seven failed attempts to do so.
GOP Senators Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined Democrats to vote in favor of the motion while Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) voted with Republicans against it, as he did in the last war powers roll call on May 13.
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It was the first time Sen. Bill Cassidy, who lost his primary to a Trump-endorsed candidate on Saturday, supported advancing a war powers resolution, while three Republicans did not vote.
“While I support the administration’s efforts to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program, the White House and Pentagon have left Congress in the dark on Operation Epic Fury,” Cassidy posted to X after the vote.
If the bill clears both chambers of Congress, President Donald Trump would likely veto it, as he did before in April 2019 to a war powers resolution on Yemen.
