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The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a symbolic resolution pressuring President Trump to seek congressional authorization to wage war against Iran, even as the United States has solidified a preliminary agreement with the country and is currently negotiating a long-term deal.
“So, I have Iran on the ‘ropes,’ ready to go down for the fall, willing to give us practically anything, and for the first time in decades, respecting the hell out of the United States and its President, ME, and the U.S. Senate decides to have a poorly timed and meaningless War Powers Act Vote, telling the Number One Sponser of Terror in the World that the United States doesn’t like what I am doing to them, and I must stop, and by so doing has provided aid and comfort the Enemy,” the president fired off in a lengthy statement posted to Truth Social.
The U.S. Senate passed the resolution in a vote of 50-48, but it carries no real legal weight. Like the House resolution that passed in early June, the gesture from lawmakers is simply symbolic. At that time, the president described the resolution as “unpatriotic” amid the war with Iran.
Outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who was ousted in his recent Republican primary by Trump-endorsed Ed Gallrein, wrote on X, “The Iran War Powers Resolution, H.Con.Res. 86, passed the Senate last night. I was the only House Republican to cosponsor this WPR. The American people want to end the Iran war, and both chambers of Congress have finally voted to end it.”
However, the president argued in his statement that the resolution had simply made his job harder.
President Trump explained, “Four Republican Losers voted with the Dumocrats, and Iran asked my people, ‘what does that all mean?’ These Senators have just made my job more difficult, but I will get it done, one way or the other, because I always get it done!”
According to The New York Times, only one Democrat voted against the resolution, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, and four Republicans voted for it: Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), and Bill Cassidy (La.).
