Senate rejects latest measure to limit Trump’s Iran war powers in 50-49 vote
The Facts
- The Senate rejected the latest Democratic-led war powers measure on Iran on Wednesday by a one-vote margin, with the motion failing 50-49.
- The measure was sponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon and was the seventh Senate attempt this year to use war powers procedures to limit or end U.S. military involvement in Iran without congressional authorization.
- Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Rand Paul voted with most Democrats to support advancing the resolution.
- Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the only Democrat to vote against advancing the measure.
- Murkowski’s vote marked a change from her position on earlier Iran war powers votes, making her the third Republican to back this effort.
- The vote was the closest any of the Senate’s Iran war powers measures has come to advancing since the conflict began.
- The vote was the Senate’s first on the Iran conflict after a 60-day period tied to the War Powers Act had expired, increasing attention on whether the administration needs formal congressional approval to continue military action.
- A central unresolved issue is whether the administration is violating the War Powers Act: Democrats say the deadline passed on May 1, while the administration argues the clock was paused by a ceasefire.
How left and right are reading this
- Both agree
- The failed 50-49 vote sharpened a live constitutional fight over who must authorize continued U.S. military action in Iran now that the War Powers Act deadline is contested and the Senate has finally voted after that period expired.
- They split on
- Whether the story is about Congress failing to reclaim its authority over continued military action, or about an unresolved legal question over whether the administration is violating the War Powers Act at all.
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Context
What did the resolution seek to do?
The measure, brought under the 1973 War Powers framework, sought to require an end to U.S. hostilities against Iran unless Congress formally authorized further military action Hill,TIME.
Why is this vote drawing attention now?
It was the first Senate vote after the 60-day period that Democrats say required the White House to obtain congressional approval for continued military action. That has intensified the dispute over whether the administration can keep operating without a new authorization Yahoo News,Times of Israel,Deutsche Welle.
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